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Health Remedies - Xerostomia
Xerostomia is dryness of the mouth due to a lack of saliva. It is commonly known as dry mouth. Normally, it occurs in stressful conditions. Some factors such as alcoholism, smoking, tobacco,continuous mouth breathing and certain medications may also cause this condition. But persistent dry mouth may indicate serious disease conditions such as poorly controlled diabetes, sjogren syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, hypothyroidism etc.
Xerostomia can cause difficulties in tasting, chewing, swallowing, and speaking. It also leads to bad breath or halitosis. If it goes untreated, severe dry mouth can also lead to increased levels of tooth decay and infections of the mouth such as thrush.
For boils and testicle enlargement (leaf); relieving pain and headaches (roasted leaves); earache (flower); asthma (inhalation of burning leaves) and other pulmonary and respiratory ailments (such as pneumonia, cough and severe chest colds); used internally in the treatment of asthma and Parkinson's disease, excess causes giddiness, dry mouth, hallucinations and coma (plant); externally, as a poultice or wash in the treatment of fistulas, abscesses wounds and severe neuralgia (plant).
As an adjuvant for drugs with a carminative or laxative effect, in flatulence, colic and indigestion. It is used as an aromatic stimulant, carminative and flavouring agent. Powdered cardamom mixed with ginger, cloves and caraway is a good stomachic useful in atonic dyspepsia. In herbal medicine, cardamoms are chewed slowly to sweeten the breath, as aphrodisiac, to sooth digestion, stimulate appetite, used against flatulance, colics and disorders of body, often combined with purgatives to offset griping.
In rheumatism, lumbago, body aches and skin diseases and lowers blood pressure (leaf). Leaves are chewed when there is a deficiency of saliva; to treat boils, diabetes and rheumatism (bark).
For malaria, toothache (flower); promotes salivation (seed); to treat dysentery (plant); used as a bath for relieving rheumatism and as a lotion for scabies and psoriasis (decoction).
As an analgesic and for sensitive teeth and cavities (of the teeth) (essential oil); indigestion, gastric irritation, alleviating nausea and in halitosis (bud); respiratory maladies, sore throat, headache and coryza, for removal of stain in teeth, as salivary stimulator in sublingual pharmaceutical compositions, for treating circulatory diseases such as posttraumatic oedema.
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