Herbs and spices increase resistance and prevent diseases during the changing seasons.

Specialist Doctor 2 Huynh Tan Vu, lecturer of the Faculty of Traditional Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, said that since ancient times, herbs have been used to enhance the flavor of dishes and contribute to disease prevention and treatment. Below are familiar spices, which are spicy, aromatic, and contain many antioxidants that help increase resistance and are good for health.

1. Coriander

Coriander is also known as Vietnamese coriander. Coriander has a spicy taste, warm properties, is non-toxic, helps digest food, treats wind, clears the bowels, treats difficult-to-grow chickenpox and measles, and clears poisonous pimples...

2. Lemongrass

Lemongrass is often eaten raw or used as a spice to marinate dishes. Lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic, warm taste, is very good for the digestive system, has the effect of stimulating sweating, is antibacterial, cures coughs due to flu and is a diuretic.

Lemongrass is also used to treat muscle spasms, cramps, rheumatism, headaches...

3. Lemon basil

Lemon basil is also known as the perilla plant. In folk medicine, fresh leaves are often used as raw vegetables in meals. Lemon basil has a sour, pungent taste, warm properties, and is effective in relieving colds, eliminating phlegm, detoxifying and treating colds and flu, cold lungs, and has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, eliminating phlegm, and disinfecting. It has the effect of treating sore throats, relieving colds, inducing sweating, and curing coughs, flu, fever without sweating, etc.

Lemon basil (perilla) has a sour, spicy taste and warm properties.

In folk medicine, fresh lemon basil leaves are often used or boiled to drink. In addition, traditional medicine manufacturers often distill lemon basil essential oil combined with other herbs to produce cough and flu medicine.

4. Basil

According to oriental medicine, basil has a spicy, hot taste, aromatic smell, and the effect of inducing sweating, diuretic, pain relief, and stimulating digestion. The whole plant is effective in treating colds, fever, headaches, coughs, stuffy nose, bloating, and indigestion.

5. Mint

Mint is a member of the basil family and is a raw herb. Basil is a very effective remedy for treating colds and insect bites, aiding digestion, treating flatulence, rheumatism, hiccups, clearing the throat, and treating mild sinusitis.

6. Perilla

Perilla is a medicinal herb classified by oriental medicine as a diaphoretic (inducing sweating) herb in the group of drugs that expel wind and cold (a group of diseases caused by cold) and need to be treated by inducing sweating to cure fever. There are two types of perilla: perilla with flat leaf edges, light purple color, less fragrant and perilla with curly leaf edges, dark purple color, strong fragrance.

Not only is it a delicious spice, perilla is also a medicinal plant commonly used in traditional medicine. Perilla has a spicy, warm taste and is effective in treating colds, bloating, and vomiting.

Perilla leaves have a spicy, warm taste.

7. Betel leaves

Piper lolot, also known as tat bat, belongs to the pepper family (Piperaceae). Piper lolot is a wild plant and is grown everywhere. Piper lolot has the effect of warming the middle burner and stomach. Treats vomiting caused by cold air, bloating and pain in the stomach. Treats headaches, toothaches, runny nose, loose stools, and bloody stools.

In folk medicine, betel leaves are often used to treat diseases such as bone and joint pain, gynecological diseases (vaginal infections, itching, vaginal discharge), excessive sweating in hands and feet...

8. Dill

Dill leaves are a familiar and indispensable spice in fish soup, eel soup, snail soup, helping to enhance the delicious flavor of the dish, eliminating the fishy smell. In oriental medicine, dill is a very popular medicine. Dill seeds and leaves are spicy, warm, non-toxic, regulate the dish, nourish the kidneys, stimulate appetite and are good for the digestive system.

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