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tea. Cardamom pods are ground together w ith coffee beans to produce a
powered mixture of the two, which is boiled with water to make coffee.
Cardamom is used in some extent in savory dishes. In some Middle Eastern
countries, coffee and cardamom are often ground in a wooden mortem,a
mihabaj, and cooked together in a skillet, a “mehmas”,over wood or gas, to
produce mixtures that are as much as forty percent cardamom.
In South Asia, green cardamom is often used in traditionally Indian
sweet and in Masala chi(spiced tea).Black cardamom is sometimes used in
garam masala for curries. It is occasionally used as a garnish in basmati
rice and other dishes. Individual seeds are sometimes chewed and in much
the same as chewing gum; it is even used by Wrigley’s where it states “with
cardamom to neutralize the toughest breath odor.” It has been known to be
used for gin making.
F) TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Green cardamom is broadly used in south Asia to treat infections in teeth
and gums, to prevent and treat throat troubles, congestions of the lungs and
pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammations of eyelids and also digestive
disorders. It is also used to break up kindly stones, and was reportedly used
an antidote for both snake and scorpion venom. Amomum is used as a spice
and as an ingredient medicine in system of the traditional Chinese medicine
in china, in Ayurvedha in Indian, Pakistan, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Spices in the genus amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and
Vietnam is used in traditional chines medicine to treat stomach issues,
constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems. “Tsaoko” cardamom
Amomum taco-ko is cultivated in Yunnan, China and Northwest Vietanam,
bothfor medicinal purpose and as spices. Increased demand, people typically
isolated from many other markets. Until recently, Nepal had been the world
largest producer of large Cardamom. Guatemala has become the world
biggest producer and exporter of cardamom, with an export total of
US$137.2Million for 2011.