Spice Tea of India

Tea- A beverage made by steeping processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea in hot water. Tea also called ‘Chai’ is a very popular drink in India. It is an art to make a good tea. Masala chai (Spice Tea of India) is famous all over India. It’s included cardamom pods, whole cloves, black pepper corns, sticks of cinnamon, all spice berries, larger slice of fresh ginger peeled and crushed, milk, sugar.

Uses of Cardamom:
Cardamom, Amomum, Elettrria, called Elaichi in India.
* Flavor- It gives a good flavor to your tea and sweet food.
* Medicine- It is an effective medicine and used as an ingredient in traditional systems of medicine in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
* Ingredient- It is a common ingredient in Indian food and is used as a spice in food. Black cardamom is sometimes used in garam masala for curries.
* It has also been known to be used for making gin.

Uses of Cloves:
* Ingredient- Clove is a key ingredient in tea along with green cardamoms. It easily loses its flavor.
* Medicine- Cloves used as a treatment for stomach upsets, vomiting and diarrhea. Cloves and clove oil used for muscle and dental pain.

Uses of Black Pepper Corns:
* Medicine- It’s a good medicine for heart diseases, cold, fever etc.
* Ingredient- It is used to flavor tea and food.

Uses of Cinnamon:
* Cinnamon is used to treat nausea, flatulence and diarrhea. Cinnamon is good for controlling blood cholesterol and diabetes.
* Ingredients- is used in garam masala for curries and in making cakes, pies, buns, toast, puddings etc.

Uses of Ginger:
* Ingredients- Used in Cooking for its warming properties and wonderful aroma and taste.
* Medicine- It is a good medicine for heart diseases, cough, cold etc.

Tea is a low-calorie beverage that keeps the body energetic and full of life. India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century. India is also the world's largest tea-drinking nation.
Tea cultivation in India has somewhat ambiguous origins. Though the extent of the popularity of tea in Ancient India is unknown, it is known that the tea plant was a wild plant in India that was indeed brewed by local inhabitants of different regions.
The first recorded reference to tea in India was in the ancient epic of the Ramayana, when Hanuman (Hindu God) was sent to the Himalayas to bring the Sanjeevani tea plant for medicinal use. Fine-leaf tea is hand plucked, and hand shears are used on mountain slopes and in other areas where tractor-mounted machines cannot go. (Like Darjeeling, Assam). The tea "fluff" and waste from processing is used to produce caffeine for soft drinks and medicine.