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