TCM Basics 101: Supermarket Herbs - Cilantro
TCM Nature: Warm
TCM Taste: Pungent
TCM Meridian Affinity: Spleen, Stomach, Lungs, Large Intestine
Benefits:
· Strengthens Spleen and Stomach: promotes digestion, nutritive tonic, anemia, nausea, hernias, vomiting
· Moves Qi and Blood: menstrual cramps, stomach cramps, intestinal cramping, constipation.
· Disperses Wind and Cold: measles, coughs, bronchitis
· Balances blood and glucose levels
· Enhances flushing of waste and toxins
· Antiviral
· Improves mental acuity
Spirituality:
Cilantro inspires us to support each other in the purging of emotionally toxic situations which we all transit through at various times of our lives. It can aid us in being a sympathetic ear when someone really needs it.
