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.