spices herbs

Black pepper has been known as king of spices. It can be found in every dining room, irrespective of country, religion and financial status. However, there are marked differences in the pepper grown in Brazil, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and Vietnam. People around the world love little spiciness in their food. Black pepper is used in various cuisines, cheese, chips, drinks etc. Black Pepper can not be grown in Europe, Russia, China and North America due to weather and soil conditions. Most of the black pepper in the western world is imported from above mentioned countries. It is so common a product that futures are sold in the stock market. Pepper Farmers call it, “Black Gold”, since it can be stored for long period of time and can be sold worldwide.The popular saying of, ”money does not grow on trees”, does not apply to pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg. These are some of the most expensive spices in the world for centuries. These products have colonized countries and wars have been fought. Columbus was looking for pepper and other spices when he arrived in America. British colonized India for pepper trade for a century. Following map shows the map location of Tellicherry region in Kerala, India.

Indus Organics Jumbo Black Peppercorn

Jumbo Peppercorns are the largest ripe berries. These fully mature berries have very unique taste compared to ordinary pepper. We steam sterilize the Jumbo berries for high purity. This removes some of the softer outer skin of the ripe berries. These berries before steam sterilization are more than 5.5 mm in diameter which makes them the largest black pepper in the world. Click here to buy them online

Indus Organics Jumbo Pepper

Indus Organic Tellicherry Pepper

Indus Organics Tellicherry Special Extra Bold (TGSEB) Peppercorn are very high quality peppercorns grown in southern India. These mature and ripe berries have unique taste and aroma. These peppers are steam sterilized to obtain high purity and low microbial. Steam sterilization of pepper reduces the size of fully ripe berries. Lot of companies sell lower grade pepper with large size. These peppers are not steam sterilized. Devil is in the details. Click here to buy them online

Indus Organics Tellicherry Pepper

Herbs have been used for cooking and treating disease since ancient times. There are references to the curative properties of some herbs in the Rigveda, which is believed to have been written between 3500 and 1800 BC. A more detailed account is found in Atharveda. A comprehensive information about herbs has been recorded in Charka Samhita and Shusruta Samhita - the two important works on Ayurvedic system of medicine. Ayurvedic system deals with as many as 700 herbs, some of which have not even originated in India. Chinese medicine has a compilation of 1000 ancient herbs. Hippocrates (460 BC) the Greek physician and father of modern medicine has also listed several hundred herbal remedies.

Herbs play a significant role, especially in modern times, when the damaging effects of food processing and over medication have assumed alarming proportions. They are now being used heavily in cosmetics, food, tea and alternative medicine. The growing interest in herbs is a part of movement towards change in life style. This movement is based on the belief that plants have vast potential for their use as curative medicine.

Herbs are used in many ways in our lives. The active constituents must be absorbed into the body for deriving the required benefits. Once they are absorbed in the blood stream, they circulate to influence our whole system. Herbs are used in many modern medications and Homeopathic medicine in various concentrations. The skill of the herbalist is to use the effects to balance and strengthen the body’s own healing mechanism instead of suppressing or disturbing it. Many modern medications made with herbs are not prepared for healing mechanism.

A word of caution. While most herbs have little or no harmful side effects, some herbs may cause undesirable reaction in some people. Therefore, advise of trained herbalist is very useful in the selection of herb to use the curative properties. Also, not all herbal applications are effective in every case in every person since every individual has different constitution (Dosha in Ayurvedic medicine).