Cardamom (Ilaichi)

These are very good mouth fresheners. Cloves are specially good for relieving toothache.

• Dyspepsia/ Nausea/ Loss of taste:
  Boil and filter mint leaves and powdered cardamom seeds and drink.
• Indigestion:
  Powder 1 tsp of cardamom seeds and aniseed. Mix with 1/4 tsp water have twice daily, after meals.
• Bad breath of Halitosis:
  Mix 1 tsp cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaves in teacup water and drink it.
• Hoarseness/ Pharyngitis/ Sore throat:
  Boil 1 tsp each cinnamon and cardamom in a glass of water. Filter and gargle when warm.
• Cough and Cold:
  Mix of cardamom seeds along with 1 tbsp honey. Eat every day.
• Phlegmatic(with mucous)Cough:
  Put 1/2 tsp each ginger powder, clove powder and cinnamon powder in boiling hot water and then filter. Sweeten with 1 tsp honey and drink.
• Diarrhoea/ Dysentry/ Exhaustion:
  Boil 1/2 tsp powdered cardamom seeds as a weak tea and drink.