Essential oil of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans houtt) is one of the many potentials of nutmeg that has a high economic value although in North Sulawesi it has not been exploited to its full potential. This research was conducted to compare the yield and properties of Nutmeg oil extract from the seeds and mace of Talaud and North Minahasa-North Sulawesi. The oil extract was obtained by distillation and was further characterized in terms of color, solubility in ethanol, density, optical rotation, refractive index.  Results of this research exhibited that oil of the mace of nutmeg from Talaud had a lighter appearance in color compared to that from North Minahasa, while the density of oil extracted from North Minahasa was more densed compared to Talaud in both seed and mace (0.923 and 0.938 respectively at 25°C). The reflective index of nutmeg oil from North Minahasa was slightly higher than of Talaud both from seed and mace (1.4834 and 1.493 at 25°C), while the optical rotations of oil extracted from the mace were between +6.90° to +9.80° and from the seed were +20.73° to +22.30°.

The bashful plant or the mimosa plant has a history of use for treatments in various ailments. Various parts of this plant maybe used, but most commonly the leaves, stems, roots and flowers. This research was aimed to investigate the existence of phenolic and flavonoids in the Mimosa pudica Linn leaf extracts in solvents of different polarities. During this research dried leaves and wet leaves were respectively macerated in 70% ethanol and then reduced by rotary evaporators. Fractions were obtained by means of HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatography) with 3 different solvents at different polarities (hexane, n-butanol and ethyl-acetate). The results indicated that flavonoid was found mostly in the ethyl-acetate fraction from dry leaves (1.08% w/w). Phenolic was mostly detected in extracts of the dry leaves in the n-butanol (7.27% w/w) and the wet leaf residues (8.68% w/w). Results indicates that with the majority of the detection of phenolics and flavonoids in the mildly polar to strong polar solvents, thus oral intake by means of leaf infusions (such as tea/brew) would be quite effective. Complete extraction process of these compounds and encapsulating them would always be the most effective method of intake while economically the method would raise questions.