Nutmeg is a spice that does notonly tasty, but also useful. This product is often used for canning or smoking meat and fish products, sausages. It also has a mass of medicinal properties. Therefore, it is better to learn more about what a nutmeg is, how to use it with benefit to the body.
Many years ago this nut was more valuable than gold.The tree on which it grows is large, spreading, and, most importantly, evergreen. They call him muscatel or myristic. His native land is the island of Molucca, but it is often found in the tropics of Brazil and India.
There are legends about nutmeg.In ancient times, priests used it for their own purposes to perform ritual ceremonies. This plant blooms year round and, when it ripens, a fruit appears instead of a flower, which in size can be compared to an apricot, and inside it is the nutmeg itself.
In this small and quite valuable nutletmono to find a lot of various minerals, vitamins, which in their properties play an important role for the human body systems. With this ingredient you can improve the taste of a variety of dishes, for example, mushroom and vegetable, as well as sauces and gravy. Also, thanks to its pleasant spicy aroma and sweetish flavors, you can add piquancy to your sweet dishes: in flour products, in cocktails and punch.
In ancient times, this nut is oftenused as an anesthetic of natural origin. Nutmeg and its medicinal properties are widely used for pain in muscles, joints, stomach. With this nut, you can eliminate pain in the head region. He was also used repeatedly to heal insomnia or nervous breakdown.
If you take this nut dailysmall doses, it will contribute to strengthening immunity, nervous and cardiovascular systems. But in addition, it is taken to cure impotence and other similar diseases.
A systematic use of this drug withfood will help you cleanse your organs: liver, kidneys, as well as blood, lymph, and the whole body from toxins and poisons. Nutmeg can raise the mood and awaken the appetite.
But do not forget that this nut is a spice.It should not be taken more than a certain dose. For this, of course, you need to know how to properly use nutmeg, that is, its dosing. And this dose is equal to one nut a day with food. Otherwise, headaches, vomiting, palpitation, and most importantly - hallucinations can begin. This is very dangerous for the gastrointestinal tract, it is possible to damage the liver and pancreas.
You need to either grind it yourself, or buy ready-made ground spices in the store.
Most often you will meet this spice in the form of wholenuts, for when grinding them, the fragrance is lost. Therefore, should not be stored in the form of a powder, but whole nuts, and then rubbed on a grater before adding to the dishes.
If you have purchased nutmeg, cooking, using it have their own rules.
As noted above, the useful properties of the product were noticed and used by ancient people. Valuable medicinal properties of this nut are also used today.
How does nutmeg act? How to use it for different diseases?
To cure a headache, you should add it to the milk in a ratio of 1 teaspoon to three glasses of milk and use for a compress on the forehead.
To improve digestion, you need to make a mixturefor this recipe: dilute half a glass of natural yogurt and a half cup of boiled warm water. Then add 1/3 teaspoon grated ginger and nutmeg. And after that drink before going to bed.
If you want to have a sound sleep, then you should add ¼ teaspoon of spice in a glass of warm milk and use before bed.
Pasta made from nutmeg and vegetable oil(1: 1) is good at relieving pain. You just need to heat it, then apply it to the affected area and wait until it cools down. Helps such a tool for osteochondrosis, muscle inflammation and rheumatism.
If you add this spice to massage oils, then they will have a warming effect, which is also effective for colds.
It is known that essential oil has the same properties,that the fruit itself. If you add two or three of its droplets in the inhaler or aroma lamp, then this spicy aroma can soothe. It will also improve the state of the respiratory system, and inflammation in respiratory diseases will decrease.
You can use and as a compress oilsuch spiciness as nutmeg. How to use it in this case? It's quite simple: add about six drops of oil to 100 grams of water and make compresses. Such procedures have not only a relaxing effect. Thanks to them, the skin becomes more elastic and taut. This oil helps the cells of the epithelium to regenerate. Also, such a bath well affects the hair roots.
To achieve a good effect, you do not have to spend more than half an hour of your time. In the bath you can add from five to ten drops of oil. After that you just wipe yourself with a towel.
The nutmeg tree is a plant of Aphrodite.According to legend, it inflames love and passion, especially in women, but the effect lasts no more than six hours. If you decide to try nutmeg, how to use it for love purposes, it will be described below.
You can spice up your meals with a nut or prepare a drink.
The recipe is this: in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1:nutmeg, cloves, ginger, lavender + 5 petals of a pink rose. All brew in a ceramic or clay teapot. You can serve instead of tea, add a little to the dishes that you will eat for dinner.
The main thing is to first find out if your partner has an allergy to this spice.
Undoubtedly, nutmeg, the ways of consuming it are huge, it is dangerous to take in large quantities.
A lot of people want to get an extract thatwill allow them to hallucinate. Often this is described as a vision of dragons, as well as the appearance of euphoria and intoxication. This is how the body reacts to what is contained in this nutlet.
To get the result, you do not need to limit yourself to nuts alone, you can also use the horse dose and powder. But all this ends pitifully, because it is very toxic and affects the liver.
The temperature may rise sharply, pressure may rise, a syncope, constipation may occur. It is not compatible with alcohol, drugs.
In cooking, this spice is used in an amount of 0.5 g for 2-3 liters of liquid or a kilogram of food. This is the norm that will add flavor and will not poison the human body.
You can not use nutmeg to pregnant women and people with psychological, epileptic disorders.
