Uttarakhand Tejpat

“Uttarakhand Tejpat” is one of the oldest known and used spices best known as “Meetha Tejpat”.Found in Uttarakhand, this is collected from both wild and cultivated plantations. The trees are available in plenty in the forests of Uttarakhand. The leaves are long and pointed. It possesses a delicate, sweetish, sharp and spicy aroma, which is both pungent and sweet. Due to its aroma, the leaves are kept in clothes and also chewed to disguise bad mouth odour. Its dried leaves are used as a common ingredient in Indian cooking. Leaves and bark have aromatic, astringent, stimulant and carminative qualities and are used in rheumatism, colic, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.