{{taxobox |name = Clove |image =Syzygium_aromaticum_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-030.jpg |regnum = Plantae |phylum = Angiosperms |unranked_classis = Eudicots |unranked_ordo = Rosids |ordo = Myrtales |familia = Myrtaceae |genus = ''Syzygium'' |species = ''S. aromaticum'' |binomial = ''Syzygium aromaticum'' |binomial_authority = (L.) Merrill & Perry |synonyms_ref= |synonyms=

''Caryophyllus aromaticus'' L.

''Eugenia aromatica'' (L.) Baill.

''Eugenia caryophyllata'' Thunb.

''Eugenia caryophyllus'' (Spreng.) Bullock & S. G. Harrison

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Cloves (''Syzygium aromaticum'') are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves are native to the Maluku islands in Indonesia and used as a spice in cuisines all over the world. Cloves are harvested primarily in Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. They have a numbing effect on mouth tissues.

The clove tree is an evergreen that grows to a height ranging from 8–12 m, having large leaves and sanguine flowers in numerous groups of terminal clusters. The flower buds are at first of a pale color and gradually become green, after which they develop into a bright red, when they are ready for collecting. Cloves are harvested when 1.5–2 cm long, and consist of a long calyx, terminating in four spreading sepals, and four unopened petals which form a small ball in the center.

Taxonomy and nomenclature [link]

The scientific name of clove is ''Syzygium aromaticum''. It belongs to the genus ''Syzygium'', tribe Syzygieae, and subfamily Myrtoideae of the family Myrtaceae. It is classified in the order of Myrtales, which belong to superorder Rosids, under Eudicots of Dicotyledonae. Clove is an Angiospermic plant and belongs to division of Magnoliophyta in the kingdom Plantae.

The English name derives from Latin ''clavus'' 'nail' (also the origin of French ''clou'' and Spanish ''clavo'', 'nail') as the buds vaguely resemble small irregular nails in shape.

Cloves are also known under the following names in other languages:

Arabic:قرنفل (Kronfol)

Chinese: ''丁香 (pinyin: dīng xiāng)''

Czech: ''hřebíček''

Danish: ''nelliker''

Dutch: ''kruidnagel''

French: ''giroflier'' (for the tree), ''clou de girofle'' (for the spice)

German: ''Gewürznelkenbaum''

Hindi: ''long, lavang''

Indonesian: ''cengkeh'' or ''cengkih''

Italian: ''Chiodi di garofano''

Kannada: ''lavanga'' (ಲವಂಗ)

Magyar: ''szegfűszeg''

Malayalam: ''grampoo''(ഗ്രാമ്പു )

Marathi: ''lavang'' (लवंग)

Pashto: ''lawang''

Portuguese: ''cravo-da-Índia'', ''cravo-das-molucas'', and ''cravo-de-doce''

Româneşte: ''cuişoare'', ''cuisoare''

Spanish: ''árbol del clavo'' or ''clavero giroflé'' (for the tree), ''clavo de olor'' (for the spice)

Sinhala: ''karabu nati'' (කරාබු නැටි)

Tamil: ''kirambu'' (கிராம்பு), ''lavangam'' (இலவங்கம்)

Telugu: ''lavangam'' (లవంగం)

Türkçe: ''karanfil''

Urdu: ''laung'', ''laong''

Vietnamese: ''đinh hương''

Uses [link]

Cloves can be used in cooking either whole or in a ground form, but they are used sparingly because they have an extremely strong flavour.

Cloves have historically been used in Indian cuisine (both North Indian and South Indian). In North Indian cuisine, it is used in almost all rich or spicy dishes as an ingredient of a mix named ''garam masala'', along with other spices, although it is not an everyday ingredient for home cuisine, nor is it used in summer very often. In the Maharashtra region of India it is used sparingly for sweet or spicy dishes, but rarely in everyday cuisine. In Ayurvedic medicine it is considered to have the effect of increasing heat in system, hence the difference of usage by region and season. In south Indian cuisine, it is used extensively in biryani along with "cloves dish" (similar to pilaf, but with the addition of other spices), and it is normally added whole to enhance the presentation and flavor of the rice.

Dried cloves are also a key ingredient in Indian ''masala chai'', spiced tea, a special variation of tea popular in some regions, notably Gujarat. In the US, it is often sold under the name of "chai" or "chai tea", as a way of differentiating it from other types of teas sold in the US.

In Mexican cuisine, cloves are best known as ''clavos de olor'', and often used together with cumin and cinnamon.

In Vietnamese cuisine, cloves are often used to season the broth of Phở.

In American cooking, it is often used in sweet breads such as pumpkin or zucchini bread along with other sweet spices like nutmeg and cinnamon.

Due to the Indonesian influence, the use of cloves is widespread in the Netherlands. Cloves are used in cheeses, often in combination with cumin. Cloves are an essential ingredient for making Dutch speculaas. Furthermore, cloves are used in traditional Dutch stews like hachee.

In Europe, cloves are also a common ingredient in Christmas seasonal dishes such as Mulled wine.

Non-culinary uses [link]

The spice is used in a type of cigarette called ''kretek'' in Indonesia. Kreteks have been smoked throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2009, clove cigarettes (as well as fruit and candy flavored cigarettes) were outlawed in the US. However, they are still sold in similar form, re-labeled as "filtered clove cigars".

Cloves are also an important incense material in Chinese and Japanese culture. And clove essence is commonly used in the production of many perfumes.

During Christmas, it is a tradition in some European countries to make pomanders from cloves and oranges to hang around the house. This spreads a nice scent throughout the house and serves as holiday decorations.

Cloves are often used as incense in the Jewish practice called Havdala.

Clove also works as an ant repeller.

Traditional medicinal uses[link]

Cloves are used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and western herbalism and dentistry where the essential oil is used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies. Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Cloves are also said to be a natural anthelmintic. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy when stimulation and warming are needed, especially for digestive problems. Topical application over the stomach or abdomen are said to warm the digestive tract. Clove oil, applied to a cavity in a decayed tooth, also relieves toothache. It also helps to decrease infection in the teeth due to its antiseptic properties.

In Chinese medicine cloves or ''ding xiang'' are considered acrid, warm and aromatic, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians, and are notable in their ability to warm the middle, direct stomach qi downward, to treat hiccough and to fortify the kidney yang. Because the herb is so warming it is contraindicated in any persons with fire symptoms and according to classical sources should not be used for anything except cold from yang deficiency. As such it is used in formulas for impotence or clear vaginal discharge from yang deficiency, for morning sickness together with ginseng and patchouli, or for vomiting and diarrhea due to spleen and stomach coldness. This would translate to hypochlorhydria. Clove oil is used in various skin disorders like acne, pimples etc. It is also used in severe burns, skin irritations and to reduce the sensitivity of skin.

Cloves may be used internally as a tea and topically as an oil for hypotonic muscles, including for multiple sclerosis. This is also found in Tibetan medicine. Some recommend avoiding more than occasional use of cloves internally in the presence of pitta inflammation such as is found in acute flares of autoimmune diseases.

In West Africa, the Yorubas use cloves infused in water as a treatment for stomach upsets, vomiting and diarrhea. The infusion is called Ogun Jedi-jedi.

Medicinal uses and Pharmaceutical preparations[link]

Western studies have supported the use of cloves and clove oil for dental pain. However, studies to determine its effectiveness for fever reduction, as a mosquito repellent and to prevent premature ejaculation have been inconclusive. Clove may reduce blood sugar levels.

Tellimagrandin II is an ellagitannin found in ''S. aromaticum'' with anti-herpesvirus properties.

The buds have anti-oxidant properties.

Clove oil can be used to anesthetize fish, and prolonged exposure to higher doses (the recommended dose is 400mg/l) is considered a humane means of euthanasia.

In addition, Clove oil is used in preparation of some toothpastes, laxative pills and Clovacaine solution which is a local anesthetic and used in oral ulceration and anti-inflammations. Eugenol (or clove oil generally) is mixed with Zinc oxide to be a temporary filling.

Adulteration[link]

Clove Stalks: They are slender stems of the inflorescence axis which show opposite decussate branching. Externally, they are brownish, rough and irregularly wrinkled longitudinally with short fracture and dry, woody texture.

Mother Cloves (Anthophylli): There are the ripe fruits of cloves which are ovoid, brown berries, unilocular and one-seeded. This can be detected by the presence of much starch in the seeds.

Brown Cloves: Expanded flowers from which both corolla and stamens have been detached.

Exhausted Cloves: Cloves from which almost or all of the oil has been removed by distillation. They yield no oil and are darker in color.

History [link]

Until modern times, cloves grew only on a few islands in the Maluku Islands (historically called the Spice Islands), including Bacan, Makian, Moti, Ternate, and Tidore. Nevertheless, they found their way west to the Middle East and Europe well before the 1st century AD. Archeologists found cloves within a ceramic vessel in Syria along with evidence dating the find to within a few years of 1721 BC.

In the 3rd century BC, a Chinese leader in the Han Dynasty required those who addressed them to chew cloves so as to freshen their breath. Cloves, along with nutmeg and pepper, were highly prized in Roman times, and Pliny the Elder once famously complained that "there is no year in which India does not drain the Roman Empire of fifty million sesterces".

Cloves were traded by Muslim sailors and merchants during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, the Clove trade is also mentioned by Ibn Battuta and even famous One Thousand and One Nights characters such Sinbad the Sailor is known to have bought and sold Cloves. In the late 15th century, Portugal took over the Indian Ocean trade, including cloves, due to the Treaty of Tordesillas with Spain and a separate treaty with the sultan of Ternate. The Portuguese brought large quantities of cloves to Europe, mainly from the Maluku Islands. Clove was then one of the most valuable spices, a kg costing around 7 g of gold.

The high value of cloves and other spices drove Spain to seek new routes to the Maluku Islands, which would not be seen as trespassing on the Portuguese domain in the Indian Ocean. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain sponsored the unsuccessful voyages of Christopher Columbus, and their grandson Charles V sponsored the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. The fleet led by Magellan reached the Maluku Islands after his death, and the Spanish were successful in briefly capturing this trade from the Portuguese. The trade later became dominated by the Dutch in the 17th century. With great difficulty the French succeeded in introducing the clove tree into Mauritius in the year 1770. Subsequently, their cultivation was introduced into Guiana, Brazil, most of the West Indies, and Zanzibar.

In Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries, cloves were worth at least their weight in gold, due to the high price of importing them.

Active compounds [link]

Eugenol comprises 72-90% of the essential oil extracted from cloves, and is the compound most responsible for the cloves' aroma. Other important essential oil constituents of clove oil include acetyl eugenol, beta-caryophyllene and vanillin; crategolic acid; tannins, gallotannic acid, methyl salicylate (painkiller); the flavonoids eugenin, kaempferol, rhamnetin, and eugenitin; triterpenoids like oleanolic acid, stigmasterol and campesterol; and several sesquiterpenes.

Eugenol has pronounced antiseptic and anaesthetic properties. Of the dried buds, 15 - 20 percent is essential oils, and the majority of this is eugenol. A kilogram (s) of dried buds yields approximately 150 ml (1/4 of pint) of eugenol.

Eugenol can be toxic in relatively small quantities—as low as 5 ml.

See also [link]

Cinnamomum aromaticum

Gallic acid

Insect repellent

Notes and references [link]

Category:Syzygium Category:Spices Category:Flora of Indonesia Category:Herbs Category:Incense Category:Medicinal plants Category:Puerto Rican ingredients

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name	Isabelle Fuhrman
birth date	February 25, 1997
birth place	Washington, D.C., U.S.
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	2006–present
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Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress. Fuhrman is best known for playing Esther in the 2009 horror film ''Orphan'', and Clove, the female tribute from District Two, in the ''The Hunger Games''.

Life and career[link]

Fuhrman was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Atlanta. Her mother, Elina Fuhrman (née Kozmits), is a journalist who immigrated from Soviet Russia and has worked for CNN. Her father, Nick Fuhrman, is a former political candidate and business consultant. She has an older sister, Madeline Fuhrman, who is a singer and songwriter.

Fuhrman's acting career began at the age of seven, when a casting director from Cartoon Network spotted her waiting for her sister and cast her for one of the shows, ''Cartoon Fridays''. Fuhrman made her big screen debut just a few years later in the 2007 drama ''Hounddog''. The same year, Fuhrman was chosen to star in the movie ''Orphan'' alongside Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard. Fuhrman was cast through an exhaustive nationwide search of young actresses to portray the lead in the Warner Bros. collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment.

Fuhrman's other credits include the role of Gretchen Dennis (aka Girl Ghost) opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt on the hit TV show ''Ghost Whisperer'', Grace O'Neil in the pilot episode of the 2006 television series ''Justice,'' and a number of national commercials like Pizza Hut and K-Mart. Her performance as Gretchen Dennis in Ghost Whisperer earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. Fuhrman also appeared in comedy skits on the ''Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', and she is known to have provided character voices for Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Fridays".

In 2011, Fuhrman played Angie Vanderveer in the dark comedy ''Salvation Boulevard'' (based on the novel by Larry Beinhart), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Fuhrman is part of an ensemble cast that includes Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, and Ed Harris.

In 2012, Fuhrman played Clove, a tribute, in the film ''The Hunger Games'', based on the novel of the same name.

Fuhrman will next be seen co-starring with Will Smith and Jaden Smith in the film, After Earth.

Charitable work[link]

Fuhrman was approached by Save the Children in 2010 to be a celebrity advocate for their "Caps for Good" project. She and several volunteers with Save the Children have helped knit hundreds of baby caps in an effort to reduce the death rate of newborns in developing countries.

Filmography [link]

+ Film and television
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
2006		Grace O'Neil	Episode: "Pilot"
2007		Grasshopper
2008	''Ghost Whisperer''	Gretchen Dennis	Episode: "Pieces of You"
2009		Esther Coleman
2009		Additional Voices	TV movie
2009	''''	Girl (voice)	Episode: "The One About Friends"
2010	''Pleading Guilty''	Carrie	TV movie
2010	''Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage''	Hatchling Shelly (voice)
2011	''''	Lyric Byrne	Episode: "Perfect Witness"
2011	''Salvation Boulevard''	Angie
2012	''''	Clove
2012	''''	Michelle
2013	''After Earth	Rayna	Filming

References[link]

External links[link]

Isabelle Fuhrman at FEARnet

Official Twitter

Official Facebook

Category:1997 births Category:Actors from Washington, D.C. Category:American child actors Category:American film actors Category:American people of Russian descent Category:American television actors Category:Living people Category:People from Washington, D.C.

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