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| Articles about Nutmeg |
| | Wild Nutmeg.(Han) | | 2008-07-08 20:38:00 | | Medicinal Plants in Thailand. Knema globularia Warb.MYRISTICACEAEWild NutmegThai name : Han Tree, up to 30 m high. Leaf simple, alternate, pale beneath with a brown indument, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3-4 cm wide, 10-16 cm long. Inflorescence in dense short fascicle, unisexual, dioecious; flowers brownish yellow outside, reddish purple inside. Fruit fleshy with red aril. Fixed oil expressed from seed: treatment of scabies and other skin diseases. By: Medicinal Plants in ThailandVolume 1 ... | | By: Herbs for Health | | |
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| Nutmeg Dreaming. | | 2008-03-02 13:49:00 | | March 3 ... An article in the Chicago Sun-Times probably had a lot of people scurrying to their pantries on this day in 1961 – some to throw out, some to try out the nutmeg sitting nonchalantly in the spice rack. The article was headed “Nutmeg Costs a County Jail Guard His Job”, and it related to the use of nutmeg as a psychoactive substance in the prison. The use of nutmeg in the kitchens of the New Jersey State Prison is now banned. I wonder what alerted the authorities? Several pounds of nutmeg a week on the kitchen supply list? As it turns out, history and myth-tory and the Land of Rumour are rife with stories of Myristica being used in this way, and those of us who only think of it as an aromatic brown sprinkle on the top of a just-perfectly-wobbly-set baked custard, or the fragrant spicy note in a steaming Christmas Pudding must squarely face its sinister under-belly. Various ‘sources’ claim it is used in prisons, by bohemians, beatniks, students, and Eastern ... | | By: The Old Foodie | | |
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