With increasing awareness around herbal medicine, it is an opportune time to rediscover the hidden powers of cloves.

Sold as whole cloves, the dried buds are hard and brown with one end being pointed and the other more bulbous and bloomed.

Cloves are quite pungent, which is why you'll often see them in smaller quantities when recipes call for it in ground form. The flavor and aroma are both intense, with notes of sweet, spicy ...