nutmeg

nutmeg

Ingredients and Benefits: Many of the younger leaves contain proteins that feels soothing. In addition, nutmeg also contain essential oils, tannic substances, and starch substance believed to increase appetite, release of gas from the stomach, and calm the nerves.

Usefulness:
1. Vomiting, Pain Maag, Go Wind, Hiccups
1 teaspoon nutmeg powder brewed with a little water. Drinks every time out vomiting.
2. Stomach Heartburn (but not diarrhea)
A little nutmeg powder placed under the tongue, let dissolve with saliva.
3. Sprue
Gum nutmeg mixed with a little water. Use this mixture to rinse
4. Cough slimy
Same with recipes no. 5, but this herb in the mouth to the trachea.
5. Insomnia
How I: A little nutmeg powder mixed with 1-2 drops of water, then spread to the forehead
How II: ½ nutmeg ground and brewed with 1 cup water. When will drink give a little honey / sugar cube. Drink this potion 2x a day, each 1 cup
6. Rheumatism
Bathing with soap nutmeg or rub the sore body parts with nutmeg balm. Soap and nutmeg balm sold in pharmacies and drug stores.
7. Dysmenorrhea
A little powdered nutmeg, 7 grains of coriander, a piece of turmeric, 1 clove with 1 cup boiling water until the water half. Drink this mixture warm while at the same time
8. Hypertension
Some fresh nutmeg grated and squeezed to take water. Do this 2x a day.


Nutmeg Fruit Make More Beauty Sleep

When consumed in excess intoxicating DIFFICULTIES sleep soundly at night must have been excruciating. How to cope with these conditions? Apparently it is not difficult. One of nutmeg spice in the kitchen, can help you sleep soundly through the night.
Who is not familiar with nutmeg? Nutmeg is one of the plant herb that has many benefits. Besides as a spice in cuisine, nutmeg is also efficacious to cure various diseases.

Nutmeg which has worldwide since hundreds of years ago has long been able to overcome difficulty sleeping (insomnia). Europeans take advantage of this fruit as an ingredient mixed drinks body warmers, so do not be surprised if the area where the growing of nutmeg is always contested by the colonial time.
Savor-property owned by a plant can not be separated from the role of the compounds contained therein. Similarly with the nutmeg. Maluku native plants is very rich in oil siri.
On fruits, seeds, leaves and bark volatile oils contained. Fruits, seeds and leaves also contain saponins, and flavonoids polofenol. Especially nutmeg seeds also contain compounds miristisin. These compounds can be intoxicating if taken excessively.
Adverse Effects
In Europe, this miristisin initially will be used as a painkiller (analgesic). But the plan was canceled because they have side effects. Among other headaches, nausea and loss of balance.
Some adverse effects are actually caused by elemisin content in nutmeg. Elemisin together with miristisin in the human body will be converted into a compound similar meskalin and amphetamines. Both these new compounds that cause effects dizziness, nausea and others.
If consumed in large amounts of this compound will anesthetize.

According to the expert team of health magazines, and miristin elemisin intoxicating it is present in seeds. While in the flesh is very little. So wipe both of these compounds in small quantities would provide a beneficial health properties.
Aside from being a cooking spice, nutmeg also bring health benefits. Javanese people often use the fruit of this plant to cure a headache. Some people also use fruit as a tonic. Blood circulation will be smooth with nutmeg eat this.
In areas where the growth of nutmeg, women often use nutmeg to heal his son that fainting or seizures.
Efficacy of treatment with nutmeg, among them:
1. Can relieve pain, stomach pains due to colds.
2. Eliminates difficulty sleeping (insomnia).
3. Smooth substandard blood.
4. Healing the tightness in the stomach, and others.

Multipurpose plants and major non-oil export commodities Indonesia is rich in vitamin C, calcium, and phosphorus. Nutmeg is also commonly used as a drug diarrhea, bloating, nausea, and to improve digestion and appetite.

One of the souvenirs that must be hunted if the typical vacation in Bogor and Cianjur is the candied fruit. Fruit that many are processed into candied nutmeg, mango, kedondong, papaya, kemang, kebembem, and guava.

In Bogor, which is a center of production of nutmeg, candied nutmeg the most popular. That said, candied nutmeg have been known in Bogor from the Dutch period, when high-ranking VOC many living in the rainy city.

There are two types of candied nutmeg, candied nutmeg ie wet and dry candied nutmegs. Besides as sweets, meat nutmeg can also be processed into jelly, syrup, dodol, chutney, jam, fruit juice, wine, cider and nutmeg.

Part nutmeg highest economic value is the seed and mace. Seeds are generally used in sweet foods and rich spices, such as bakery products, and also as a spice in meat dishes and beverages and dessert products. Meanwhile, the mace is used as a flavor ingredient in bakery products, such as cakes, cookies, pies, and toppings, as well as a spice in cooking sea, pikel, and drinks.

Popular since ancient
Nutmeg plants including angiosperms in the class, subclass Dicotyledonae, orders Ranales, family Myristiceae and Myristica, consists of 15 genera and 250 species. Of 15 genera, 5 of which are in tropical America, 6 in tropical Africa, and 4 genera in tropical Asia, including Indonesia.

Plants nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is one spice plants native to Indonesia who are spread its production area from the Islands of Maluku, North Sulawesi, West Sumatra, Aceh, and Papua. In the early period of trading (VOC), nutmeg is a spice you are looking like gold.

Until now, the role of nutmeg as a traditional Indonesian currency in world trade is still very large. Indonesia is a major producer of nutmeg with supplies about 74 percent of the needs of the world's nutmeg (Puslitbangtri, 1990).

In the Dutch colonial era, nutmeg plants distributed to various remote areas in Indonesia. Therefore, nutmeg has a distinctive name a few areas, such as falo (Nias), palo (Minangkabau), pahalo (Lampung), nutmeg (Sunda), paala bibinek (Madura), kalapelane (Seram), parang (Minahasa), and gosoka (Halmahera, Tidore, and Ternate).

Nutmeg plant is a multipurpose plant because each part can be utilized in various industries. Seed, mace, and nutmeg essential oil of the most widely exported, and used in food and beverage industry. The oil derived from seeds, mace, and the leaves are used in the pharmaceutical industry, perfumes, and cosmetics.

In the pharmaceutical industry, nutmeg has a variety of properties that are beneficial to human health. In low doses, nutmeg can be used to reduce flatulensi (abdominal bloating), improve digestion and appetite, and to treat diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea (Chevallier, 2001).

Myristicin components contained in the fruit flesh has the ability as an insecticidal agent and is considered to contribute to the hallucinogenic properties that can cause hallucinations (Dorsey, 2001).

In some areas, nutmeg meat discarded as waste after it is taken seed and fulinya. This is unfortunate because the meat nutmeg is the largest component of fresh nutmeg (83.3 percent), compared with mace (3.22 percent), shell beans (3.94 percent), beans and meat (9.54 percent).

Optimum utilization of nutmeg will be able to increase farmers' income. Because, with the development of strategic products that utilize waste processed meat nutmeg, could provide a double advantage.

Rich in volatile components
Nutmeg plants can grow well in soil with loose structure and full of humus, soil acidity from 5.5 to 6.5, in lowlands up to ± 700 m above sea level, with rainfall between 2000-3000 mm / year. Nutmeg crop plant is a menage two (deoceous) which means flower male and female does not lie in one tree. There is also a tree or hemaphrodit androgynous, but it rarely happens.

Nutmeg plants started flowering after the age of 6-10 years, depending on the state of soil and climate. The flowers are pale, small, soft, and smelling fragrant and panicle. Tassel flower consists of 1-10 male flowers and female flowers 1-3 panicles of flowers. Period of fruit growth from start to cook quotes persarian no more than nine months (Rismunandar, 1990).

Nutmeg plants can grow 10-20 meters tall, the crown of trees that vary between pyramidal shape (cone), oval (cylindrical), and round. Began to bear fruit after 8-9 years old, maximum results at the age of 25 years and can last until age 60 years.

Nutmeg trees that have been aged 10-12 years to bear fruit around 800-2000 pieces per year of 2-3 times the harvest (Hadad, 2001). Nutmeg pear-shaped, tip pointed, his skin smooth, fleshy, and contains enough water

Nutmeg fruit flesh has a hard, whitish in color, containing white sap, and taste chocolate. Diameter nutmeg varies from 3-9 cm. When the fruit was ripe on the tree, the fruit open so that the brown nutmeg become easily visible.

Nutmeg seed is rich in fat so it can be extracted to produce oil of nutmeg. Nutmeg meat rich in calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C and A, and a little iron. Meat nutmeg contain 29 volatile components (volatile compounds) with 23 components were identified and 6 other components not yet identified. The components most in the volatile oil of nutmeg meat is á-pinen (8.7 percent), â-pinen (6.92 percent),?-3-karen (3.54 percent), D-limonene (8 percent ), á-terpinen (3.69 percent), 1,3,8-mentatrien (5.43 percent), ã-terpinen (4.9 percent), á-terpineol (11.23 percent), safrole (2, 95 percent), and myristicin (23.37 percent) (Hustiany, 1994).