The Benefit of Cardamom for Your Health

The rich aroma of cardamom is often used as a flavoring dishes. This plant is often used to treat problems with the herb is useful as a diluent throat and phlegm or expectorant. Some studies reveal, the benefits derived from sineol essential oils. sineol essential oils is more spicy, but cool when swallowed. Often used to scent the mouth. However, since the world was flooded with a variety of mouth odor repellent candy, local cardamom is not used anymore because it is less practical.

In that study also explained that cardamom has other chemical constituents such as terpineol, borneol, protein, sugar, and less fat. The contents of cardamom has benefits as an expectorant, laxative fart (anti-cold), and anti-cough.

In tribal Bedouin, drink cardamom is used for heating and endurance booster. Cardamom has been used as an herbal mixture. Cardamom classified in herbs that can reach a height of 2-3 meters, and grows in dense forests. cardamom thrive at an altitude of 200-1000 meters above sea level. Originally cardamom wild life as a shrub, but now is cultivated as cardamom spice.

not only stems, roots and fruit can also be used, cardamom seeds are taken before mature and has dried often called as cement cardamomi.

Susanto explained, there are two steps to take advantage of cardamom. For outer healing, by boiling or refine all parts of cardamom, water or soft dough massaged into the affected side. Healing using this step can overcome bad breath (boiled water ofcardamom flowers used for rinsing) and whooping cough (cardamom batter smeared on the chest and neck).

Conversely, for inside healing, cardamom seeds crushed and then boiled and drunk the water. This step can overcome throat problems, bloating, stomach cramps, abdominal pain, colds, bad breath (cardamom drink boiled water), vomiting, inflammation of the stomach (gastritis), and fever.

Before use it, the cardamom pods do not peel. If you want to use it, cardamom  as much as a tablespoon crushed in the mortar, so that the skin separated from the fruit. Then sieved to removed skin. Until finely ground seeds or 1/2 rough. This is embodied in the food or in the herbs. When mashing should be half and half, so the freshness is still felt.

Susanto recommend, cardamom should be kept in a state of there skin. This skin protects the seed to dry and hot weather, and protects the aroma being rapidly lost. If you want to use the trunk, choose a young and fresh.

3 Herbal Recipes to Treat Cough

Cough is a disease regardless of age, children and adults can be infected at any time. If you have a cough, no need to panic or worry and rush to buy medicine at a pharmacy, try to treat a cough with a natural or herbal treatments. Here is herbal recipes that is capable and proven to cure cough:

First herbal recipes ingredients:
1. Celery
2. Honey
3. Water

Steps to make:
1. 30 grams of celery cleaned and chopped
2. Celery pieces are boiled in 3 cups water in a enamel saucepan over low heat.
3. Reserving the cooking water until remaining 1 cup.
4. Drain and strain the cooking water.
5. Add honey to taste.
6. Stir until smooth.

Rules of natural herbal drink:
1. Herbs for 2 drinks.
2. Drink it 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
3. drink regularly.

Second herbal recipes ingredients:
1. Kencur (Kaempferia galanga L)
2. Water
3. Salt

Steps to make:
1. Kencur in the grate.
2. Add 1 tablespoon water, then wring it out, take the water.

Rules of natural herbal drink:
1. Drinking kencur juice with a little salt three times a day at night, evening and morning.
2. Repeat a few days to recover cough.

Third herbal recipes ingredients:
1. Lemon
2. Noni
3. Whiting
4. Hot water.

Steps to make:
1. Cut the lemon juice and noni that has been cooked, squeeze and take the water, place in a container.
2. Add 2 cups of hot water.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of whiting.
4. Stir until smooth and strain.

Rules of natural herbal drink:
1. Drink three times a day, morning, afternoon or evening, and night.
2. Drinking for three consecutive days.

Indonesia discordant 2% turnover of the herbal world

Ministry of Health recorded a turnover of traditional herbal medicine each year continues to increase, in 2006, the turnover of herbs remain in the range of 5 trillion rupiah rate, but this year the turnover is expected to reach 13 trillion herbs rupiah. Herbs from Indonesia is 2% of the turnover of herbal medicines in the world.

This subject was presented by theGeneral Director of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Development Ministries of Health, Maura L Sitanggang after launching herbal village in Sukoharjo Central Java, Thursday (11/22/2012).

Maura said, survey from the Health Ministry found that herbal medicine is consumed by more than half of Indonesian people from various ages. Amount 95.6% of the costumer claimed the benefit of it.

Maura said, population trends are happy taking herbal medicine, should be caught as a business opportunity for farmers in Indonesia. It's because the raw material for making herbal medicine, most are imported from abroad.

Almost 60% of raw materials are imported. Our farmers must be able to capture these business opportunities, while Indonesia has the advantages of biodiversity, almost all medicinal plants can grow in our state, said Maura.