Cloves are the dried flower buds of clove trees. Cloves can be used not only as a spice but also as a medicine.
Health Benefits:
1) Promotes digestion
Cloves improve digestion, If the food is not digested, putting two cloves in the mouth will make the nausea go away.
2) Boosts Immune system
Clove is very efficient against many harmful bacteria, Fungi and viruses. Chewing cloves can relieve from Cold and cough.
3) Aching tooth
Due to its antiseptic properties clove oil is used as remedy for toothache, sore gums, and mouth ulcers. It eliminates bad breath. American dental association accepted clove oil as dental anaesthetic.
4) Protect against Cancer
Some researches found that the compounds present in cloves helps to fight cancer. The Eugenol present in cloves possesses strong anticarcinogenic (anticancer) properties and helps control lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer at its early stages.
5) Controls B.P and Sugar levels.
6) Headache
To get rid of headache eat two cloves daily.
7) Reduce ulcers
Cloves can help with mouth and stomach ulcers problems. Our stomach is lined (or) covered with mucus and when this mucus becomes thin many ulcers form in our stomach. Cloves make this mucus thick and helps to prevent ulcers from developing and existing to heal.
8) Cloves improve liver functioning.
9) For bone health
Cloves improve bone density and mineral content in bones.