Cardamom

Cardamom is a kind of fruit, which is often used as a spice in cooking and special blends of herbs. There are two types of cardamom are widely used in Indonesia, Java, or cardamom (Amomum compact) and India, cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), both members of the family Zingiberaceae.

The plants are 2-3 m tall grass. Having a rounded, dark green pseudostem. Having a successful business at an altitude of 200-1000 meters above sea level. Sheets returned to the show, lanceolate, all from 7.5 to 3 x 50 -10 cm, base narrow, conical tip 3 cm long, bright green leaves are a lot of white dots at the beginning, but eventually the red blood.

Rhizomes grow flowers and separated from the mother, with upright stems of 10 cm. Voices of the stairs are closed. Flower-shaped crown of pipe, rectangular, white or yellowish. The fruit is small and short, thick, sometimes hairy, gray-yellow.

Cardamom is grown mainly for their fruit. Other dried herbs or spices. Essential oils extracted from seeds is used in perfumes and fragrances. All parts of this function, the aromatic fragrance of cardamom, bitter and warm. Medicines against cough nourishing herbal, and carminative, used to treat cough, abdominal pain, arthritis and fever.