Culantro

Medicinal Uses:

• Leaves are used as culinary herb.

• It has been used in traditional medicine in tropical regions for burns, ear-ache, fevers, hypertension, constipation, asthma, stomach-ache, worms, infertility complications, snake bites, diarrhoea, and malaria.

• The plant is said to calm a person's spirit as it prevents epileptic 'fits', hence it is also known by the common names spirit weed and fitweed.