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Utilize your spice rack

3/28/2013

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In herbal medicine, spices are used often to treat health ailments. Here are a list of nine every day spices that have positive health benefits that you can add into your diet and favorite dishes. 

1.) Cinnamon
- helps stabilize blood sugar levels, insulin resistance, diabetes, helps burn fat, digestive problems

2.) Turmeric
- contains active ingredient curcurmin
- high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties
- help heal ulcers including infections with Helicobacter
- improves liver detoxification pathways
- cancer prevention
- Alzheimer’s disease 
- cardiovascular disease 
- helps reduce cholesterol levels

3.) Saffron
- contains many plants derived chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing and health promoting properties.
- The active components in saffron have many therapeutic applications in many traditional medicines as antiseptic, antidepressant, anti-oxidant, digestive, anti-convulsant.

4.) Ginger
- stomach, gas, bloating, nausea, motion sickness, morning sickness, nausea and vomiting
- reduce pain and inflammation such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis & rheumatism. 
- reduce exercise induced muscle soreness
- helps in treatment of common cold and respiratory inflammation such as bronchitis & asthma

5.) Chili
- relieve pain, improves circulation
- enhances memory, used for coughs and colds 
- anti-cancer properties
- weight loss
- reduce blood cholesterol & triglyceride levels

6.) Cardamon
- reduce cancer development 
- increase cell death of cancer cells in the colon
- mild diuretic 
- useful for high blood pressure

7.) Cumin
- lowering blood glucose levels
- natural anti-bacterial effects in the digestive system
- Contains a phytonutrient called apigenin, which has been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth

8.) Paprika
- anti-oxidant give away
- very high in Vitamin C 
- improves iron absorption 
- help digestion
- act as an anti-bacterial in the digestive tract
- improves circulation

9.) Clove
- Contains eugenol
- reducing intestinal worms, digestive discomfort such as nausea, colic, bloating 
- toothache, and as a gargle for pharyngitis , laryngitis and halitosis

Source:  http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/nine-spices-that-benefit-your-health/
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