Latin
name: Amomum subulatum, Vrahat
Ela: Greater cardamom
Family: Zingibereraceae
Greater cardamom is found in Garam masala
recipes, and have its traditional value.
It is spice having peculiar aroma and taste,
used to flavours the food articles. Pungent,
bitter warm potency and also acrid.
Medicinal action:
Digestive, aromatic, carminative, stimulant,
purgative, diuretic, regulate pitta srava
[bile secretion, antidote [snake bite, scorpion
venom]
Indication:
Ingestion, tympanities, diarrhea, liver
disorders, teeth and gum infections disease
of throat, congestion of lungs, tuberculosis
[pulmonary], digestive disorders, inflammation
of eyelids, pain abdomen, constipation,
dysentery, skin disorders, itching, headache,
fever and in cold.
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