* Amomum ( commonly known as black cardamom, brown cardamom, kravan, Java cardamom, Bengal cardamom, Siamese cardamom, white cardamom, or red cardamom ) is distributed mainly in Asia and Australia.

Among other species, varieties and cultivars, Amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and Vietnam is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat stomach issues, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems.

Tsaoko cardamom Amomum tsao-ko is cultivated in Yunnan, China and northwest Vietnam, both for medicinal purposes and as a spice.

Amomum is a genus of plant, including several types of cardamom, especially black cardamom.

Species in the genus Amomum are also used in traditional Indian medicine.

Increased demand since the 1980s, principally from China, for both Amomum villosum and Amomum tsao-ko has provided a key source of income for poor farmers living at higher altitudes in localized areas of China, Laos and Vietnam, people typically isolated from many other markets.

Cardamom ( or cardamon ) refers to several plants of the similar genera Elettaria and Amomum in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.

Elettaria pods are light green while Amomum pods are larger and dark brown.

# Aubertine, C. 2004, Cardamom ( Amomum spp.

There are at least two distinct species of black cardamom: Amomum subulatum ( also known as Nepal cardamom ) and Amomum costatum.

See List of Amomum species for a complete list.

1799 ), and a " Description of Amomum exscapum " to the Annals of Botany ( vol.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

spice is a fact of life in the U.S.A..

Cumin is sometimes confused with caraway ( Carum carvi ), another umbelliferous spice.

*" Cajun spice " blends such as Tony Chachere's and REX King of Spice are sometimes used in Acadiana kitchens, but do not suit every cook's style because Cajun-style seasoning is often achieved from scratch, even by taste.

Dry curries are cooked with very little liquid which is allowed to evaporate, leaving the other ingredients coated with the spice mixture.

Curry powder is a spice mixture of widely varying composition developed by the British during the days of the Raj as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home.

Appearing only in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is the spice spider of Kessel, a creature made of glitterstim spice and silicon that spun crystalline webs harvested by miners as glitterstim spice, an illegal psychoactive narcotic.

Dill seed is used as a spice, with a flavor somewhat similar to caraway, but also resembling that of fresh or dried dill weed.

In Arabic, dill seed, called ain jaradeh ( cricket eye ), is used as a spice in cold dishes such as fattoush and pickles.

Fit-fit, or chechebsa, made with kitcha ( unleavened bread ), niter kibbeh ( seasoned clarified butter ) and berbere spice mixture is a typical breakfast food.

It is used in stir-fried vegetables and as a spice rub for chicken, duck, pork and seafood.

Five spice is used in recipes for Cantonese roasted duck, as well as beef stew.

Zanzibar is especially famous for its spice export.

The fenugreek seed, a spice with high amounts of sotolon, can be prepared to have a maple-like flavour, and is used to make a very strong commercial flavouring that is similar to maple syrup, but much less expensive ; one such syrup, Mapleine, was popular during the Great Depression.

Today, the main ingredients of Marmite manufactured in the UK are glutamic acid-rich yeast extract, with lesser quantities of sodium chloride ( table salt ), vegetable extract, niacin, thiamine, spice extracts, riboflavin, folic acid, and celery extracts, although the precise composition is a trade secret.

Parsley ( Petroselinum hortense ) is a species of Petroselinum in the family Apiaceae, native to the central Mediterranean region ( southern Italy, Algeria and Tunisia ), naturalized elsewhere in Europe, and widely cultivated as an herb, a spice and a vegetable.

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetative substance primarily used for flavouring, colouring or preserving food.

Sometimes a spice is used to hide other flavours.

Sanskrit is the ancient language of India, showing how old the usage of this spice is in this region.

The flavor of a spice is derived in part from compounds that oxidize or evaporate when exposed to air.

Thus, flavor is maximized by storing a spice whole and grinding when needed.

The shelf life of a whole spice is roughly two years ; of a ground spice roughly six months.