Nutmeg is a spice that is not only tasty, but also healthy. This product is often used for canning or smoking meat and fish products, sausages. He also has a lot of medicinal properties. Therefore, it is better to learn more about what nutmeg is, how to use it with benefit for the body.
Many years ago, this nut was more valuable than gold. The tree on which it grows is large, sprawling and, most importantly, evergreen. They call him a muscatine or myristic. His native land is the Moluccan Islands, but at the same time it is often found in the tropics of Brazil and in India.
There are legends about nutmeg . In ancient times, priests used it for ritual ceremonies for their own purposes. This plant blooms all year round and when it ripens, instead of a flower, a fruit appears that can be compared in size to apricot, and inside is nutmeg itself.
Nutmeg: beneficial properties, how to take
In this small and rather valuable nut, you can find a lot of various minerals and vitamins, which in their properties play an important role for the systems of the human body. With this ingredient, you can improve the taste of many dishes, such as mushroom and vegetable dishes, as well as sauces and gravy. Also, thanks to its pleasant spicy aroma and sweetish tastes, you can add piquancy to your sweet dishes: flour products, cocktails and punches.
In ancient times, this nut was often used as a pain reliever of natural origin. Nutmeg and its medicinal properties are widely used for pain in muscles, joints, stomach. With the help of this nut, you can eliminate pain in the head area. It has also been used repeatedly to treat insomnia or nervous breakdown.
If you take this nut in small doses daily, this will help strengthen immunity, the nervous and cardiovascular systems. But besides this, it is taken to cure impotence and other similar diseases.
A systematic use of this medicine with food will help you cleanse your organs: liver, kidneys, as well as blood, lymph, and the whole body from toxins and poisons. Nutmeg can uplift your appetite.
But do not forget that this nut is a spice. It should not be taken more than a certain dose. To do this, of course, you need to know how to use nutmeg, that is, its dosage. And this dose is equal to one nut per day with food. Otherwise, headaches, vomiting, palpitations, and, most importantly, hallucinations may begin. It is very dangerous for the digestive tract, you can damage the liver and pancreas.
How to eat nutmeg
You need to either chop it yourself, or buy a ready-made ground spice in the store.
Most often you will find this spice in the form of whole nuts, because when they are chopped, the flavor is lost. Therefore, it should not be stored in powder form, but whole nuts, and then grated before adding to dishes.
Use for treatment
If you purchased nutmeg, cooking, eating it has its own rules.
As noted above, the beneficial properties of the product have been noticed and applied by ancient people. The valuable medicinal properties of this nut are used today.
How does nutmeg work? How to use it for various diseases?
To cure a headache, you should add it to milk in the ratio of 1 teaspoon to three glasses of milk and use it for a compress on the forehead.
To improve digestion, you need to make a mixture according to this recipe: dilute half a glass of natural yogurt with half a glass of boiled warm water. Then add 1/3 teaspoon of grated ginger and nutmeg. And then drink this composition before bedtime.
If you want to have a good sleep, then you should add ¼ teaspoon of spices in a glass of warm milk and drink before bedtime.
Nutmeg and vegetable oil paste (1: 1) is good for relieving pain. It is only necessary to heat it, then apply to the affected area and wait until it cools. It helps with osteochondrosis, muscle inflammation and rheumatism.
If you add this spice to massage oils, then their warming effect will intensify, which is also effective for colds.
Use in aroma lamp and bath
It is known that essential oil has the same properties as the fetus itself. If you add two or three droplets of it to the inhaler or aroma lamp, then this spicy aroma can soothe. It will also improve the condition of the respiratory system, and inflammation in respiratory diseases will decrease.
You can also use oil such as nutmeg as a compress. How to use it in this case? Simple enough: add about six drops of oil per hundred grams of water and make compresses. Such procedures have not only a relaxing effect. Thanks to them, the skin becomes more elastic and toned. This oil helps the epithelial cells regenerate. Also, such a bath has a good effect on the roots of the hair.
To achieve a good effect, you do not have to spend more than half an hour of your time. You can add from five to ten drops of oil to the bath. Then you just need to wipe it with a towel.
Erotic Nutmeg Subtext
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You can season your dishes with nuts or make a drink.
The recipe is as follows: in a ratio of 1: 1: 1: 1: nutmeg, cloves, ginger, lavender + 5 pink rose petals. Brew everything 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 is allergic to this spice.
Intoxication, overdose
Undoubtedly, nutmeg, whose uses are huge, is dangerous to take in large quantities.
Many people want an extract that will allow them to hallucinate. This is often 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 nut.
To get the result, you do not need to be limited only to the nuts themselves, you can also use a horse dose in powder. But all this ends in disrepair, because it is very toxic and affects the liver.
The temperature may rise sharply, pressure may rise, fainting, constipation may occur. It is not compatible with alcohol, drugs.
In cooking, this spice is used in an amount of 0.5 g per 2-3 liters of liquid or a kilogram of food. This is the norm that will add taste and not poison the human body.
You can not eat nutmeg to pregnant women and people with psychological, epileptic disorders.