11/12/2013
How much do you know about spices :)
Case Study: Health Benefits of Cloves: Nature’s Top Antioxidant Food
Medicinal properties and health benefits of cloves
Let’s check how clove can be useful as home remedy for treating common ailments:
• The active principles in the clove are known to have antioxidant, anti-septic, local anesthetic, anti-inflammatory, rubefacient (warming and soothing), carminative and anti-flatulent properties.
•Cloves have the distinction of having the highest antioxidant activity of any food.
• The spice contains health benefiting essential oils such as eugenol. It is a phenyl-propanoids class of chemical compound, which gives pleasant, sweet aromatic fragrances to the clove-bud. Eugenol has local anesthetic and antiseptic properties, hence; useful in dental care essentials as well as in treatment procedures.
• The use of cloves in toothache is a common home remedy. Pressing a clove bud between the jaws, at the site of aching tooth eases the pain.
• Apply clove oil in the cavity of decayed tooth. This would reduce the pain and help to ameliorate infection.
• To remove bad breath, chew Cloves.
• If you have cough or throat is congested, try chewing roasted clove. It is also a wonderful medicine in cases of inflammation in the pharynx (condition termed as pharyngitis).
