Nutmeg
Nutmeg
Used Part.
Seed.
Active Principles.
Essential
oil (5 - 15%) terpénicos hydrocarbons (pinene, canfeno, sabineno, dipentene, sabineno, cymene, alpha - Thujone, terpineno) alcohols terpénicos (borneol, geraniol) eugenol, safrole, elemicina and
a
significant amount of miristicina (8%) Fat (30 - 40%) miristina, glycerides of oleic acid, linolenic acid, palmitic, myristic.
Drug Action.
Stimulating appetite, digestive,
Carmine
, antiseptic, colerética, stimulating the
nervous
system
, oxytocin.
In topical use:
rubefaciente.
Indications.
Inappetence,
dyspepsia
hiposecretoras, meteorism,
diarrhea
, enterocolitis.
In topical use:
halitosis
, osteo inflammation,
myalgia
, neuralgia.
Contraindications.
Do not prescribe the
essential
oil during
pregnancy
, lactation, small
children
or patients with neurological syndromes.
Do not administer, or topically applied to
children
under six years old or people with
respiratory
allergies
or with known hypersensitivity to this or other
essential
oils.
Side Effects.
Nutmeg
essential
oil and its present, in doses extraterapéuticas, convulsive effects and narcotics.
Galenica forms / Dosage.
Internal use:
Essential
oil:
2 - 3 drops, two or three times
a
day on
a
sugar cube, or in an infusion.
Capsules (50 mg / CAPS) two or three
a
day.
External use:
Liniment, prepared with the "butter myristic, " as rubefaciente.
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