Eryngium foetidum L.
Wild Coriander / Sawi belanda/Ketumbar jawa (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Perennial, glabrous herb that can grow up to 80 cm high. Leaves are simple, forming a rosette from the base when young but disappearing when mature and producing foetid smell when crushed. Leaf blade is obovate-lanceolate to spatulate-oblong, rounded at apex, narrowly sheathing at base with toothed margin. Stems are grooved, repeatedly dichasially branched at the top into various spreading Eranches. Inflorescence a terminal cyme. Flowers are small, many- floZered and clustered in c\lindrical heads. Flowers are greenish-white. Fruit an indehiscent ovoid-obovoid
Locally, the root decoction is taken orally as a contraceptive and to control hypertension. Antiviral, antifungal, antioxidant, antimicrobial and anticancer activities are
It prefers fertile, moist but well-drained soil under a sunny or partial shade position.
Seeds and stem cutting.
Native to tropical central America and West Indies.
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