Myristica fragrans
Nutmeg appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
High-dose nutmeg can cause poisoning and severe neuropsychiatric effects.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Culpeper uses nutmeg in a pestilential cordial-antidote receipt with rosemary, marigolds, clove gilliflowers, St. John's wort, saffron, gentian, zedoary, ginger, mace, myrrh, scabious, devil's-bit, carduus, cloves, opium, wine, and honey.
Agrippa assigns nutmeg to Jupiter in a seven-planet natural-magic mixture that also uses pepperwort, lignum aloes, mastic, saffron, cinnamon, and myrtle.
Spence describes mace, the second coat of nutmeg, in a Jupiter talisman perfume burned with incense, ambergris, balm, grain of Paradise, and saffron.
Spence's Jupiter talisman perfume burns mace, the nutmeg aril, with incense, ambergris, balm, grain of Paradise, and saffron.
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.
Matched as nutmeg; high confidence.
7 passages across 7 books; strongest source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
Matched as nutmeg; high confidence.
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Key of Solomon.
Matched as nutmeg; high confidence.
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as nutmegs; high confidence.
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton | 1621
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
Myths and Fables of To-Day
Samuel Adams Drake | 1900
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer | 1870
History of Witchcraft and Demonology
Montague Summers | 1926
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted
Gustavus Hindman Miller | 1901
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence | 1920
Key of Solomon
King Solomon | 1400
The Complete Book of Fortune
Anonymous | 1930
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
The Influence of the Stars
Rosa Baughan | 1880
Christian Astrology
William Lilly | 1647
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784
Manual of Astrology
Raphael (Robert Cross Smith) | 1828
The Authentic Red Dragon and Black Hen
Anonymous | 1800
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909