Benefits of pepper

Benefits of pepper

Dark pepper or black pepper stimulates the taste buds in your mouth in the sense it enhances your appetite for food. It also facilitates the absorption of proteins and other nutrients of food by your body. Studies have found that pepper has amazing cancer prevention  and antibacterial properties.

Pepper is used when seasoning meat. Pepper is used when packing meat also, as pepper has the ability to work as a food preservative. A long time ago, when there were no chemicals to preserve meat, hunter gatherers have used pepper to keep their meat for a considerable length of time. This does not mean that pepper is capable of preserving food for a long time, but by using pepper they have been able to keep meat for about a month or two.

Today we use pepper in our soups meat and fish. Pepper is a good home remedy for nasal blockage, Pepper can also keep ants and other bugs away from your food.

Benefits of Cardamom

Benefits of Cardamom

 

Cardamom at the ranweli spice garden 

Cardamom and ginger have a lot in common, just like ginger cardamom too can be used to cure digestive issues. In fact it is good for stomach problems like gastritis, diarrhea, indigestion, etc.

Cardamom is a good source of minerals like potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Potassium is an imperative part of cell and body liquids that helps to maintain heart rate and blood circulation.

Cardamom has a lot of iron and manganese. Iron is needed for the growth of red blood cells. Further, these sweet-smelling buds are rich in numerous crucial vitamins like riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin C.This spice helps the body to dispose of waste through the kidneys.Cardamom is a good antioxidant, the reason being its diuretic properties. It wipes out waste, salt, additional water, poisons in the bladder and kidneys. People in Sri Lanka chew cardamom after dinners to refresh their breath. Apart from fighting against bad breath, cardamom is utilized for mouth ulcers in the mouth and throat.This spice may help to ease frosty and influenza indications. It's also good for bronchitis.

Many of the vitamins in cardamom like phytonutrients, and fundamental oils in cardamom are cell reinforcements which have made cardamom a good cancer prevention agent.The fundamental oils in cardamom restrain the development of infections, microbes, parasite, and mold.

Cardamom is good for hiccups, muscle fits, stomach and intestinal issues.

Health Benefits of Spices

Health Benefits of Spices

Herbs and spices are believed to  help with certain conditions, like, malignancy, diabetes,inflammation, high blood pressure, cholesterol, asthma, pains and coronary diseases  .Herbs, such as basil and parsley, also have healing properties as far as diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes are concerned. Spices like cinnamon have the ability to controle diabetic and high blood pressure. In ayurvedic medicine in sri lanka this spice is used when making oils for pains and aches.

"Studies have been found that a wide range of herbs and spices offer medical advantages. A large portion of the confirmation exists for cinnamon, stew peppers, turmeric, garlic, oregano, basil, thyme, and rosemary.The reason is that in all these spices there is Polyphenols in abundance. Polyphenols is a kind of plant compound, which play a vital part in the prevention of degenerative diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases

Certain herbs and spices (ginger) control irritation and inflammation in the body, Spices like nut meg and cardamom are good to warm up the body.these two spices are good for people who live in cold countries. Also nutmeg is very good for diarrhea and gastritis. when taken with the correct medical advice one may think that there is no need to take pills for diseases anymore. because we know for a fact that even some of these pills also contain spices and herbs.