PART : DRIED FRUITS (SEEDS)

Seeds are aromatic, pungent.

USE : 1) Fruits are used to flavour foods as condiment.

2) Fruits are also used as masicatory.

3) Powerful aromatic, stimulant, carminative, stomachic, and diuretic.

4) Cardamoms are employed to a small extent in Europe for flavouring sweetmeats.

5) Cardamom may be safely used as a carminative is convalescence after diarrhoea.