Coriander Seed Essential Oil 1/3 fl oz

Coriander oil has a delightful fragrance: spicy, aromatic, pleasantly sweet, not unlike bergamot orange. It blends well with clary sage, bergamot, cinnamon bark, jasmine and frankincense for use in spicy, masculine perfumes or light, floral colognes.

Aromatherapy benefits: nurturing, supportive.

Also called Cilantro. Native to the Mediterranean and Middle East regions, the herb is cultivated in Europe, Morocco, and the United States. Coriander’s delicate young leaves are widely used to flavour salads, sausages, curries, pastries, liqueurs, and confectionery.

Records of the use of Coriander date to 5000 BC. The Romans used the 'seeds,' actually the fruit, to flavour bread. Coriander seed is a traditional spice basic to innumerable recipes.

Coriander is elemental to curry powder, Indian masalas, Ethiopian berebere, and much Latin American cuisine.

The 1997 Commission E on Phytotherapy and Herbal Substances of the German Federal Institute for Drugs recommends Coriander seed for 'Dyspeptic complaints, loss of appetite.'

Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'Stimulant, aromatic and carminative. The powdered fruit, fluid extract and oil are chiefly used medicinally as flavouring to disguise the taste of active purgatives and correct their griping tendencies. It is an ingredient of the following compound preparations of the Pharmacopceia