Powerful Healing Properties of 5 Common Household Organic Spices

Lisa Garber
Activist Post

It’s a wonder people spend billions of dollars on woefully ineffective and even harmful pharmaceuticals when our own spice racks contain so much natural healing power. And now, many recent studies back the millennia-old claims that spices have powerful healing properties.

Here are 5 organic spices possessing amazing healing properties to bolster your well-being and protect you from illness and disease.

Organic Spices – Cardamom

Popularly known to give Turkish coffee its distinctive flavor, cardamom is actually an Indian seed. Crush cardamom in a mortar and pestle or grinder and add to coffee, ginger tea with honey, or a rice dish to harness its ability to aid in digestion and ease problematic (and often embarrassing) flatulence.

Cardamom can be used to improve digestion, help with with stomach cramps, and provide benefit for those suffering from flatulence and gas. According to the “Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine,” cardamom has been used by herbalists as a digestive aid for centuries. Further, some see it as a possible treatment for treating worms in your intestines, such as the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Cinnamon

This spice is a must-have in every kitchen. Compounds in cinnamon—eugenol and cinnamaldehyde—also have pain-relieving and sedative properties, respectively. The key is to add cinnamon to healthy recipes — those not laden with inflammatory sugars and hydrogenated vegetable oils — to make sure the final product stays as healthy as the spice.

People have been using cinnamon for diabetes for as long as anyone can remember. For a study published in the Journal of Diabetic Medicine, researchers divided adults with type 2 diabetes into 2 different groups. Those on the daily regimen of cinnamon experienced lower fasting glucose (blood sugar) levels than the other group and showed reduced body fat overall. See here why cinnamon for diabetes is so popular.

Its anti-inflammatory properties and cancer-fighting abilities could also help patients with leukemia and lymphoma cancer. According to animal studies by the Gwanju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, cinnamon has an anti-tumor effect and leads to cancer cell death.
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