Nutmeg is an evergreen tree plant of the Myristicaceae family. Nutmeg is mainly cultivated in China's two Guangzhou and Yunnan areas, nutmeg is a famous spice and medicinal plants in the tropical region, in the winter and spring of each year when the fruit is ripe to pick. Nutmeg has a very good medicinal value, can help people to treat cold dysentery, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, vomiting and other diseases.

What is the medicinal value and efficacy of nutmeg

Nutmeg is a kind of food, but also has medicinal value, the main role is to use in medicine, but also used as a seasoning in cooking. Nutmeg stew all kinds of meat (including beef stew) can be put. However, stewed chicken is best not to put similar seasoning, because, chicken contains other meat does not have monosodium glutamate, monosodium glutamate is known as "monosodium glutamate", the taste of fresh, if you put nutmeg on the waste.

Nutmeg contains a variety of volatile oil oil in the main components of terpenes, but also contains fatty oils, oil, there is a large number of myristic acid. Nutmeg contains volatile oil, a small amount of gastric secretion and gastrointestinal peristalsis, and have appetizing and promote appetite, digestion and pain relief effect; but a large number of taking is inhibitory, and have a more significant anesthetic effect; terpene components in the volatile oil of bacteria and molds have an inhibitory effect. Myristyl ether has hallucinogenic and anti-inflammatory effects on normal people; nutmeg and myristyl ether can enhance the role of tryptophan, in vitro and in vivo tests have a moderate inhibition of monoamine oxidase.

1. Nutmeg is pungent, slightly bitter, warm, slightly poisonous, belonging to the spleen, stomach, large intestine, kidney meridian, spicy and dry, can be dispersed can be astringent.

2. It has the efficacy of warming the middle and moving qi, astringent intestines and stopping diarrhea, appetizer and digestion.

What kind of nutmeg is better

We usually eat nutmeg, so we also need to learn to pick childish nutmeg. Good nutmeg hard, difficult to break, broken section of the brown or dark brown endosperm into the inner, and white endosperm interlaced, forming a marble-like texture. Longitudinal cuts can be seen at the wide end of a small cavity, harboring a small dry shrinkage of the embryo, cotyledons curled. The odor is strongly aromatic and the taste is pungent and slightly bitter. Nutmeg is generally large, weight, solid, broken open with a strong aroma is preferred.

Nutmeg can be used as a medicine, can also be used externally as a parasite remover, and can also be used to treat rheumatic pain if people have been suffering from rheumatic pain for a long time. Nutmeg is also often used as a raw material for industrial oils and flavorings. Nutmeg can not be consumed too much at a time, or it is easy to appear toxic phenomenon, there will be dizziness, dilated pupils and convulsions. Damp-heat quality, Yin deficiency quality of the body should avoid eating or eat less.