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Myristica Fragrans |
Packing : Sack
Common Name : Fruit Nutmeg
Scientific Name : Myristica fragrans
Family Myristicaceae
Preliminary :
This plant is native Banda Islands of Indonesia, is also grown in Penang Island in Malaysia and the Caribbean, especially in Grenada. It also grows in Kerala, a state in southern India. Other species include Papuan Nutmeg nutmeg malabarica. argentea from New Guinea, and Bombay Nutmeg malabarica from India, called Jaiphal in Hindi .
Nutmeg is now grown in tropical countries, and in the islands of Antilia. Known in India brought by the Hindus who had settled in Java and in the eastern part puIau. From India to New Guinea and Europe, Nutmeg fruit seeds and its contents are used as a spice and medicine. This plant is commonly grown in gardens and other places at an altitude of about 1000 meters above sea level. Paia fruit is medicinal plants are often referred to in the Pharmacopoeia, National Herb medicine or written as an official prescription, and is used in at least 23 countries .
Nutmeg Plant Description :
Trunked plants currently has a height of about 18 m. The leaves are round or oval-egg where foot-long and sharp edges. The back of the blue-green leaves, being the top-dark green leaves, measuring 15 x 7 cm and smelling fragrant aromatics. The flowers are yellow; mostly male flowers and female flowers partly. The flower panicles bercagak gathered as small and not fluffy. Male flowers are pitcher, of between 7-9 millimeters, with pole-sari yarn while the female flowers are somewhat larger and has no pole stamens. Plants nutmeg fruit is round, with a wrinkle in fruit length and is divided into two sides. Seed traded Paia red, covered by a coat of flesh in the form of leaf (mace or arillus, with subtle shades of dark red); fruit flesh hard, whitish, containing white sap, and it chelates, delicious eaten with sugar or syrup .
Nutmeg Chemical Ingredients :
Nutmeg contains substances: oil fly (myristin, pinene, kamfen (anesthetize substance), dipenten, pinene safrole, eugenol, iso-eugenol, alcohol), gliseda (miristinat acid, oleic acid, borneol, giraniol), protein , fat, starch sugar, vitamins A, B1 and C. oils still contain trimyristin .
Nutmeg seeds :
Essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of ground nutmeg, and is widely used in the perfume and pharmaceutical industries. Oil is colorless or light yellow, and smells and tastes of nutmeg. It contains a number of components of interest to the oleochemical industry, and is used as a natural food flavor in baked goods, syrups, beverages, and sweets. It is used to replace ground nutmeg because it does not leave particles in the food. Essential oils are also used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, for example, in toothpaste, and as the main ingredient in some cough syrups. In traditional medicine nutmeg and nutmeg oil is used for disorders related to the nervous and digestive systems .
Nutmeg Usefulness :
Nutmeg is known as drug release excess gas in the intestines and stomach as a drug. Skin and leaves contain nutmeg oil fly with a pleasant fragrance. Irian nutmeg is used as a laxative while the male head is used as a medicine rnencret and stimulants. Dried flowers (flower Nutmeg) used in various herbal mixtures. Fresh sap greenish color of the fruit (with water) is used as a mouthwash to treat thrush. Soap Pala usefull to treat gout.
Nutmeg Psychoactivity and toxicity :
In low doses nutmeg produces no physiological or neurological response that is real, but large doses cause symptoms and dangers.
Nutmeg contains myristicin, a weak monoamine oxidase inhibitors. Myristicin poisoning can cause convulsions, palpitations, nausea, eventual dehydration, and generalized body pain. It is also well known as a powerful deliriant .
Myristicin fatal poisoning in humans is rare .
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