Latin names : Elettaria cardamomum, Amomum cardamomum, Amomum elettaria French names : Cardamome, Cardamome de Malabar Other English names : Green cardamom Extracted from : seeds
Multipurpose oil for anything about digestion : impressive!
And so easy to use: just lick a few drops off the back of your hand in case of indigestion.
Freshens one's breath
Fresh, fruity, flowery, lemony, similar to pepper without being hot and Cardamom's smell is like that we already know from the kitchen.
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The plant, its legends and its botany
Cardamom belongs to the same family as ginger, zedoary, curcuma. It grows in the shade of some trees it particularly likes (not all of them though...). And
yet it requires a lot of sun: shade and sun. Cultivating cardamom in tree-lined alleys, harvesting its tiny fruits, all this requires a lot of attention and time. Oh no, this is not an expensive oil!
Its stems rise from an underground plump rhizome like its famous brother: ginger. Firstly, a few leaves above ground level, then long leaves with a special feature:
they are ribbed in two directions: parallel to the deep central rib
and small streaks like those on a vinyl record. Blossoms are most strange: they look elvish with petals like curved flames from a bud that grows in the shape of a cone.
Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine, wrote texts about using cardamom as a healer for many ailments. He had already added a lot of Ayurvedic elements to the pre-European medicine of that time - Ayurvedic texts in which cardamom was already mentioned, are over three thousand years old. The Arab caravans first brought the plant in European countries as a perfume. The Egyptians benefited from this traffic, and used it as substrate in religious ceremonies.
Turkey (geographically midway) reminds us that it is the natural antidote to coffee. Similarly, Iranians use it with tea. Let's continue
our journey towards the East and make fun of English mountaineers who wanted
to climb the Himalayas after colonising India. Many of them got strokes during such a gigantic physical effort, until they accepted to listen to the local wise men's pieces of advise. They then started chewing cardamom every time their heart struggled to understand the reason why they would want to conquer the mountains so badly .
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Energetic properties
To digest emotions To assimilate life's ups and downs To heal emotional wounds Enables to hear and listen to heart Allows to develop exceptional abilities
No contraindication within physiological dosage. Keep children out of reach. Children and pregnant women: no contraindication within physiological dosage.
