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Clove and Clove oil
By admin | August 10, 2007
Clove is used in limited amounts in food products as a fragrant, flavoring agent, and antiseptic. It is widely produced and cultivated in Indonesia, Sri-Lanka, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Brazil . Clove was also approved as a topical antiseptic and anesthetic. It can be also added to tobacco.
Clove oil, like other plant oils, can be used in livestock to inhibit microbial fermentation in waste products.
Clove and clove oil, in scientific theories and tradition is used as a mosquito repellant (topical), mouth and throat inflammation, mouthwash, nausea or vomiting, pain, neurodegeneration, oral candidiasis (thrush), muscle spasm, oral cavities, oral edema, pediculocide, smooth muscle relaxant (clove oil), tooth or gum pain, vaginal candidiasis (prevention and treatment), vasorelaxant (clove oil), cancer, carminative, cavities, colic, cough, counterirritant, decreased gastric transit time, diabetes, diarrhea, dust mites, expectorant, food preservative, gout, hernia, herpes simplex virus, hiccups, high blood pressure, inflammation, insecticidal, insulin mimetic, gas, larvae or parasites, lipid-lowering , abdominal pain, acaricidal, allergies, anesthetic, artherosclerosis, antibacterial, antifungal, antihistamine, antioxidant, antimutagenic, antiseptic, antiviral, aphrodisiac, arsenite induced toxicity (prevention), asthma, athlete’s foot, bad breath, blood purifier, blood thinner (anti-platelet agent).
Dosage for clove and clove oil has not been standardized.
Allergies have been reported. Clove can cause rash when used on skin or inside the mouth. Hives have been reported in clove cigarettes smokers, too.
Synonyms such as Eugenia bud, Eugenia caryophyllata , Eugenia caryophyllus , Flores Caryophylli , gahn plu, garifalo, garifallo, garifano, garn ploo, Gewurznelken Nagelein (German), gozdzik, gozdzikow korzenny, graambu, ground clove, gvazdikelia, gvozdika, harilik nelgipuu, hrebicek, iltze kanela, jeonghyang, jeonghyong namu, jonghyang, kabsh qarunfil, kala, kalmpir, kan phou, kan phu, karafuu, karamfil, faranfil, kariofilla, kariofilo, khan pluu, khlam puu, klabong pako, klincic, klinceky, klincki, krambu, kreteks (clove cigarettes), krinfud, krinfud, kruidnagel, krustnaglinas, kryddernellike, kryddnejlikor, kurobu, kullobu, kvapnusis gvazdikmedis, labanga, labango, Caryophylli Flos , caryophyllum, caryophyllus, Caryophyllus aromaticus , cengke, cengkeh, choji, chiodo di garofano (Italian), chor boghbojh, chor poghpch, cinnamon nails, clau, clavos, Clous de Girolfe (French), clovas de comer, clove essential oil, clou de girofle, clove, clove bud, clove bud oil, clove essential oil, clove leaf, craveiro da india, cravinho, cravo, cravo de olor, cuisoare, ding heung, ding xiang, dinh huong, dok chan, dried clove are also used.
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