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This familiar kitchen spice comes from a 50-foot evergreen tree cultivated in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the West Indies. The dried nuts (Nutmegs) and their oil are both used medicinally. The fleshy skin of the nuts is ground to produce the household spice called mace. A nutmeg butter can be made by chopping the nuts and steaming them until they form a paste. In Asian medicine, Nutmeg is used as a treatment for inflammation, abdominal pain, impotence, diarrhea, liver disease, and vomiting.
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