Cardamom tea
What Are The Benefits Of Drinking Cardamom Tea?
There is a reason specific spices like cardamom find their place in cookbooks and traditional recipes.
- Is A Digestive Aid
Having a small cup of herbal tea post meals is a good habit. Adding cardamom seeds to this brew makes it even better!
Drinking cardamom tea helps in complete digestion and assimilation of the ingested food. It prevents indigestion and flatulence after you have had a heavy meal by stimulating gastric acid secretion
If you feel nauseous, cardamom tea can give you quick relief. It can also treat constipation and the acute stomach cramps that accompany it quite effectively
- Enhances Heart Health And Blood Circulation
Cardamom tea is rich in antioxidants like pinene, linalool, limonene, and other phenolic compounds that can reduce the free radicals causing hypertension.
The flavonoids in this tea prevent the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood vessels without altering HDL (good cholesterol) levels in the serum. Certain components also modify or block the calcium transport across blood vessels so that they remain dilated.
As a result, blood circulates freely through the vessels and exerts less stress on your heart and vessel walls. This helps in maintaining heart health and protects you from cardiovascular diseases
- Is Effective Against Flu
High levels of sterols, polyalcohols, and vitamins A and C give cardamom tea antiviral, antifungal, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties.
Cardamom tea can treat a sore throat and dry cough and clear excessive phlegm generated due to microbial infections (e.g., flu) or hypersensitivity (e.g., pollen allergy) by enhancing your immunity.
It can also reduce the severity of inflammation in the lungs and associated organs in conditions like asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia by triggering the production of anti-inflammatory enzymes like COX-inhibitors.
- Treats Bad Breath And Dental Issues
Having cardamom seeds, either in the tea or directly, can help fight bad breath (halitosis). Bad breath can be caused by bad oral hygiene, chewing or smoking tobacco, diseases leading to dry mouth, crash diets, etc.
Usually, food stuck in your teeth and gums is broken down by certain bacteria to produce sulfur compounds, which give the foul smell to your breath. But some fungal or bacterial infections in your gums and teeth pockets also cause halitosis
The antiseptic and antimicrobial components of cardamom seeds, such as cineole and pinene, kill these bacteria and heal bleeding and infected gums.
- Is A Complete Detox Drink
The active components of tea leaves and cardamom seeds, together, flush out all the wastes circulating in your bloodstream. Cardamom tea has essential terpenes like myrcene, sabinene, carene, limonene, eudesmene, cedrene, and terpinolene, along with polyalcohols like linalool, geraniol, verbeneol, terpinyl acetate, and their derivatives in abundance.
These components eliminate free radicals, toxic intermediates, and heavy metal ions from your blood by discharging them into the urine.
Due to its mild diuretic and lipolytic activity, this tea reduces bloating and water retention in your tissues and joints, prevents cholesterol build-up in the body, and ultimately leads to weight loss
- Is A Skin Care Expert
Impure or deoxygenated blood with free radicals gives rise to pimples, acne, psoriasis, uneven skin tone, rashes, pigmentation, and many other skin woes.
Adding powdered cardamom seeds to your regular tea enhances its flavonoid and glutathione levels. Flavonoids are potent antioxidants that scavenge the free radicals in your blood. Cardamom tea also has anti-inflammatory and growth stimulating properties. Hence, it can cure rashes, wounds, bites, scars, and bruises.
- Is A Powerful Anti-inflammatory Agent
Inflammation is either the cause or the result of many diseases – be it the extremely painful and chronic arthritis or the nagging and acute common cold.
Including cardamom tea in your diet is the simplest precaution you can take against such conditions. I say this because the tea is packed with anti-inflammatory compounds like phenolic acids, terpenoids, phytosteroids, vitamins, and minerals.
These phytochemicals can prevent and cure various chronic and acute inflammatory diseases like arthritis, type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypersensitivity, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), muscle cramps, dementia, Alzheimer’s, stomach ulcers, and dermatitis with minimal side effects.
