CARDAMOM

Efficacy and Benefits of Cardamom

Cardamom (Amamum Campactum Soland), Spices are often referred to kapol, pelaga puwar, palago or karkolaka did have a myriad of benefits. This plant such content of chemical is a oil fly sineol, and alfaborneol terpineol, beta-camphor, protein, sugar, fat and silicates.

In Indonesia, he can be found in traditional markets, the seller is usually in the area of ​​herbs, be advised, cardamom is often used as a food supplement. Although it has a slightly bitter taste of nature, he was able to provide warmth effect.

During this time a lot of people who use it as a drug. Extracts of the whole plant is used as a remedy against flatulence or meteorismus (accumulation of gas in the intestines), colic and weakness. The herbs are finely ground together with water used as a liniment for gout. Extracts from the root is used as a fever medicine. The seeds are mamah material, also used as a condiment (for cake) and as a drug, for example, to treat breathing difficulties, halitosis (futor exore) and to treat cough and itchy throat with chew. In the seed material contained kardamon oil containing terpineol, terpinylasetat, cineol, borneol and sabinen, albumin, calcium-oxalate and silicon. It also contains essential oils (alfaborneol and betakamfer) are efficacious to thin phlegm, ease expenditure wind from the stomach, warms, cleanses the blood, relieve pain, scent.

Some ailments can be cured with cardamom, and the following is part of plants that can be used at the same time how to make it :

• Stomach Cramps, Rheumatism : all parts of this plant, including the roots boiled for about a quarter of an hour with filtered, water is taken.
• Fever : rods boiled for about fifteen minutes and then filtered. drink the water.
• Cough : fruit chew.
• Nausea prevent : fruit is boiled and eaten.
• Body Odor : rhizome boiled enough and drink the water.

Cardamom also has a smell good so that British people hailed that as grains of paradise. Smell good of essential oils derived from the content of the cardamom. Essential oils contain five major substances is :

• Borneol is that smells like the smell of camphor like in camphor tree sap.
• Alpha-Terpinilasetat scent smell like oranges pettigrain.
• Limonen are also scent smell like tangerines.
• Alpha-Terpinen such scent lemon.
• Cineol is delicious, warmth, spicy, oils such as eucalyptus.

No wonder so many people use the seeds to be sown in a glass of hot tea. In addition to his trademark scent, turns out many efficacy.

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