The main advantage of any spice is its magical ability to enrich food with exquisite aroma and improve taste. But, besides these unique properties, some of them have also a positive effect on health, being a healing agent from many diseases. The leader in the kingdom of fragrant and useful seasonings is a cardamom - a perennial plant of India, which is found to use in many areas of human vital activity.
Features Application of cardamom
To date, the most common regions of cultivation of the Cardamom are the expanses of Central America, Ceylon and India plantation. By the number of exported products, Indian spice leads, due to a more pronounced aroma and taste features.
- Cardamom pods contain spicy grains, which, with proper storage, retain their fragrance and beneficial properties. Hammer spice over time loses its properties, inferior to taste quality with fresh-grinding grains, so it is preferable to store the seasoning in the form of dry fruits.
- Burning seasoning is an excellent medicinal and prophylactic tool among admirers of traditional medicine. No less known cardamom and cooking, improving the taste of a variety of dishes and beverages, ranging from confectionery and meat products, and ending with coffee.
- Cardamon's essential oil is used in cosmetology and perfumery, improving the quality and efficacy of many anti-aging and tonic means.
Chemical composition
Having read the composition of the seeds of the Eastern Plant, becomes the understanding of the spices of the ancient Lekaryts of the East, which used this drug for the treatment of many ailments. After all, cardamom is a source of many valuable components, such as:
- cineol;
- essential oils;
- proteins;
- saturated fatty acids;
- group vitamins in;
- micro and macroelements - copper, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium;
- niacin;
- cellulose.
Useful properties of Cardamom
Healing qualities of the cardamom were found in a few centuries BC. To date, the spice is not only an excellent addition to the taste of food, but also has a beneficial effect on the human body, improving well-being and strengthening immunity.
What is useful cardamom for the body, and what properties does it have?
- The infusion of spice has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties, which makes it useful for colds, bronchitis, sore throat.
- Possessing cleansing characteristics, cardamom improves the metabolism and normalizes the weight, deriving accumulated toxins and slags from the body.
- The regular use of spices has a beneficial effect on the digestion process, reduces the attacks of nausea and eliminates the intestinal distention.
- Cardamom has tonic and strengthening properties, thereby activating mental activity, normalizing the work of the nervous system and improving the mood.
- The essential oil of spices is an excellent cosmetics that has a rejuvenating and cleansing effect on the skin of the face, and also strengthens the hair and contributes to their growth.
- Cardamon oil has a slight painkillery effect, removing painful sensations and discomfort during menopause.
- Fragrant tea has a positive effect on the work of the cardiovascular system and normalizes blood pressure.
- The oil from the cardamom is used at the first manifestations of cellulite, due to its ability to enhance blood circulation and improve the condition of the skin.
- Cardamon helps to get rid of the unpleasant odor from the oral cavity, and also has a powerful antibacterial effect.
- The pinch of the ground cardamom with warm milk has favorably affect male health, as well as prevention against diseases of the genitourinary system.
Contraindications
Despite a number of useful properties, people who prone to allergic reactions should be caution to use the cardamom for certain purposes. It also stands with caution to apply and use a spice with pregnant and nursing mothers. It is not recommended to use a cardamon with patients suffering from gastritis and a stomach ulcer.
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