The Secret Stories

In India, cardamom has been used for more than 3,000 years. Ancient Ayurvedic texts describe it as a "Tridoshic" spice balancing the body’s energies. Western Ghats in india is known as spice Mountain . Our Cardamom is grown here

In the Middle East Yemen and Arabia where it became a symbol of hospitality . Serving "gahwa" (coffee with cradamom ) remians a cultural tradition.

In some South indian folk tales, a prince's illness was cured when a healer "invented" a potion of cardamom , pepper , and honey . The prince later called cardamom "The Queen of Spices."

A tale tells of Queen Semiramis of Babylon , who ordered cardamom incense to be burned in her palace daily , inveting the use of cardamom as luxury fragrance.

Arab traders in the Red Sea routes around 1000 BCE brought cardamom to the Middle East and kept its origin a secret. They claimed it grew only in paradise , thus inventing a mystical story to raise its value.

Romans invented cardamom-flavoured wine and cordials it was considered an Aphrodisiac . (To increase sexual desire , arousal, or pleasure.)

The Greek physician Hippocrate (5th century BCE) wrote about cardamom as a digestive aid and perfume.

Myth says sages discovered its divine aroma and they offered it in fire rituals(Yajnas)to please the gods.

Around 700 BCE, cardamom was imported into Mesopotomia . Priests and queens used it as an ingredient in perfume.