🌾Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Perilla (Tia To)
Perilla frutescens
About Perilla (Tia To)
Perilla (Tia To) (Perilla frutescens) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Cold, Anxiety, Digestive Issues, and Nausea. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Perilla frutescens, commonly called perilla or Korean perilla, is a species of Perilla in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is an annual plant native to Southeast Asia and Indian highlands, and grown in the Korean peninsula, Southern China and India. Known as deulkkae (들깨) in Korean, the plant was introduced into Korea before the Unified Silla era, when it started to be widely cultivated.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal