Cardamom Benefits, Cardamom Seeds Uses
Cardamom is cultivated in western and southern India. Ceylon and Burma. Dry ripened seed and oil from the seeds are used in medicine.
It is a very active aromatic, stimulant, carminative, diuretic agent and useful in stomach disorders. It reduces kapha. It is cold in action, useful in dyspepsia and coughing and difficulty in passing urine. It has a tonic effect.
Even Unani Hakims make successful use of it and they use it in nausea, vomiting and headache. Cardamom seeds are also used as a flavoring agent.
A powder containing equal quantities of cardamom, ginger, cloves and caraway seeds is useful in dyspepsia and loss of appetite and in digestion.
A powder known as Eladi Churna is a tonic and useful in bronchial affections, hyperacidity, heart burn and nausea.
As a home remedy it is used externally as well as internally. The oil of the seed is applied when there is pain in joints. After consuming an excess quantity of bananas, if there is a feeling of distension of gas in the abdomen, cardamom makes the trouble subside.
In many tooth powders, cardamom is used for its germicidal and flavoring properties.
The powder of cardamom, given with ghee and sugar, is useful for certain maladies of the eye and the dose of the powder is 10 to 20 grains.
Always employ fresh cardamom and the small cardamom known as Chhoti Elachi. (Small Cardamom)
Cardamom is used also in several tonics and aphrodisiacs. It reduces pain in cases of inflammation of the nerves.
