Nutmeg
Its essential oil has a sweet, warm and spicy aroma.
Its essential oil has a sweet, warm and spicy aroma.
This essential oil, composed of monoterpenes, monoterpenols and ethers, has a perfect aromatic similarity with the Asian nut from which it is extracted.
It is a general, cerebral and circulatory stimulant. It stimulates digestion. It is anti-infectious and antispasmodic. It is therefore recommended in cases of difficult digestion accompanied by intestinal infection and diarrhoea, digestive atony and spasmodic enterocolitis. It is uterotonic and emmenagogue. The presence of paracymene makes it an analgesic by cutaneous application (rheumatism, aches and pains, etc.).
It is recommended for people who are nervous, anxious, who think all the time and who do not sleep enough! Favour a soft diffusion and especially the cutaneous interface: in friction, by diluting sufficiently, or in massage.
This summary is given for information purposes: it is a synthesis of the properties described in recognised aromatherapy books and/or in accordance with ancestral and popular traditions. The properties* presented are taken from the book ‘Aromathérapie Corps et Ame’ by André Bitsas, published by Amyris. It is in no way a medical information or a list of indications.