Distribution:
The plant is a native of Moluccas, now cultivated in many tropical countries of both hemispheres. In India, it is grown in Madras State( Tamil Nadu).

Habit:
M.f. is a dioecious or occasionally monoecious evergreen, aromatic tree. The bark is greyish black; the leaves, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate and coriaceous; the flowers, in umbellate cymes, creamy yellow and fragrant; the fruits, yellow, broadly pyriform or globose; the seed, broadly ovoid, albuminous, with a shell-like purplish brown testa and covered by a red, fleshy aril. The dried kernels constitute the nutmeg of commerce. Mace is the dried fibrous aril covering the testa.

Principle constituents:
Nutmeg: A fixed oil, a volatile oil and starch.
Mace: the volatile oil (Oil of Mace) and amylodextrin.

Indications:
Nutmeg is reported to be an expectorant, vermifuge, aphrodisiac, and as a nervine used by psychiatrists. It is used in tonics and electuaries and is recommended for the treatment of inflammations of bladder and urinary tract.

Product range:
Diakof, Geriforte, Himcolin, Koflet, Lukol, Mentat