Cardamom for Cold treatment and Teeth infections

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Cardamom has a very strong, unique taste, with an intensely aromatic.

Cardamom is a common ingredient in cooking. In the Middle East, green cardamom used as a spice for sweet dishes, traditional flavouring in coffee and tea. Cardamom pods are ground together with coffee beans to produce a powdered mixture of the two.

 Traditional kitchen

More often cardamon used as a garnish in basmati rice and other dishes. In some countrys, cardamon seeds are sometimes chewed and used as chewing gum, to neutralize breath odors.

Cardamom in medicine

Green cardamom is broadly used in to treat infections in teeth and gums, to prevent and treat throat troubles, congestion of the lungs and pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of eyelids and digestive disorders. Also used to break up small kidney stones and gall stones. 

Widely used in traditional medicine in systems of the traditional Chinese medicine in China, in Ayurveda in India, Pakistan, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, traditional Indian medicine to treat stomach issues, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems.

Other uses

Cardamom  used for digestion problems including heartburn, intestinal spasms, irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal gas, constipation, liver and gallbladder complaints. Some studies have shown, that cardamon is helpful in common cold, cough, bronchitis, sore mouth and throat, and tendency toward infection. Some people use cardamom as a stimulant and for urinary problems.

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