A tasty cardamom tea has many health benefits apart from just being tasty. The preparation is quite simple, all a person needs to do is put cardamom seeds in hot water along with peppercorns, cloves and cinnamon in the tea. Also including natural sweetener like honey or sugar. All these ingredients have to be mixed well and the cardamom should be crushed well to release the oils from the seed and the rough powder is also added in the tea. This is a natural way to prepare cardamom tea, but now there is ready tea premix available with all the ingredients available together in it.
The cardamom is a native of India but now available and grown in many other places of Asia and the rest of the world. The cardamom seeds are contained in a seed pod and it has a very strong aromatic smell as well as flavor. This is usually the most used and dominating spices amongst all others. It contains large amount of active compounds and nutrients that provide benefits to the health. Although it is expensive amongst other spices. Cardamom contains high amount of Vitamin A, B and C. It also has iron, magnesium, zinc, copper and potassium.
The side effect of having cardamom are very less and seen only in people who are allergic to this spice or the people who are on certain type of medication that needs to avoid the intake of cardamom.
This tea is usually consumed in a normal way or even taken in a cooled way and also helps in having a quicker relief to some sensitive area if applied on them like, like inflammation on the skin. The cardamom helps to stimulate and achieve the re growing of new cells that gives protection against infections and irritation to the skin.