Seasoning cardamom is one of the main ingredients of most Asian and African dishes. Spice cardamom not everyone likes, but fans of all piquant and original necessarily add this spice to your arsenal.
Few know that apart from a delicious unusual taste cardamom can boast healing properties. Asian folk medicine uses this seasoning long and very actively. Quite often cardamom is used even in cosmetology. It seems like it's time to tell the fans of this spicy seasoning how else it can be used.
Useful properties of cardamom
So, cardamom is a perennial herbaceous plant. You can learn it by the powerful and fleshy trunk, but the whole essence of this plant is hidden in small fruits. The fruits of cardamom are usually called boxes. They store the most valuable thing in this plant - seeds that are excellent aphrodisiacs. It is enough to chew a couple of seeds of cardamom, to relieve fatigue and give vivacity to the body.
There are a lot of cardamom species, moreover, all species differ from one another and to taste, and the smell is quite strong. The most popular varieties are black and green cardamom, the beneficial properties of which affect health the best. This plant - an antioxidant, which removes harmful substances from the body.
The main advantages of cardamom are as follows:
- Cardamom can be added to tea and coffee. This not only gives the drink a piquancy, but also neutralizes the negative effects of caffeine.
- Cardamom seeds can also be used as a basis for a preventive anti-cold remedy.
- Cardamom and honey have a beneficial effect on the nervous system. Use this tool is recommended daily.
- Detailed seeds with sesame or olive oil are a classy mask for oily skin.
- Cardamom is green, and any other has properties that enhance immunity.
There is another secret property of cardamom: it accelerates the burning of fats and helps to lose weight. Cardamom improves digestion and metabolism , and in combination with cinnamon and red pepper, this seasoning becomes an effective means for losing weight.
Cardamom - contraindications for use
Do not forget that cardamom - the plant is quite specific. It, certainly, possesses weight of useful properties, but, as well as any other medicine (if to consider cardamom from the medical point of view), has some contraindications to application.
We have already told about what cardamom has useful properties, and the contraindications to the use of this spice will now be described below:
- Individual intolerance to cardamom components is one of the main contraindications to the use of seasoning.
- People suffering from diseases of the stomach ( ulcers and other ailments), to use cardamom is not recommended. In extreme cases, you can add seasoning to your diet from time to time in limited quantities.
- Pregnant women and nursing mothers should also not be addicted to cardamom.
Specialists note that the useful properties of cardamom can simultaneously be contraindications, depending on the human diet. So, for example, if a person consumes cardamom and oil in large quantities, this will not help to lose weight, on the contrary, the weight will increase.
It is very important to observe the dosage when preparing dishes and medicines from cardamom. In food at a time you can not eat more than a quarter of the ground seeds.