Sunday, February 19, 2012

Clove ( Syzygium aromaticum )


Fruit Warehouse | Clove ( Syzygium aromaticum ) | Especially in Indonesia, cloves are used as an ingredient of clove cigarettes. Clove oil used in aromatherapy and also to treat toothache. Dried leaves are finely ground cloves can be used as a vegetable and effective pesticides to control Fusarium stem rot disease by providing 50-100 grams of dried pimento leaves per plant. Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum, syn. Eugenia aromaticum), in English called cloves, are the aromatic dried flower stalks of the Myrtaceae family tree


The essential oil of cloves has anesthetic and antimicrobial function. Contained a substance called eugenol in cloves, dentists used to calm the nerves of teeth. Clove oil is also used in traditional chōjiyu mixture (1% clove oil in mineral oil; "Choji" means pimento; "yu" means oil) and used by the Japanese to treat the surface of their swords.

1 comment: