It is an important organic chemical material and widely used in many fields, dyestuff, medicine, detonator, spicery and rubber-vulcanize accelerant etc.
Commixing the natural edible and officinal spiceberry with the crusted green-tea or fumigating the crusted green-tea with spicery enhance its redolence and ameliorate its bitterness.
The Venetians, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, carried on a very advantageous commerce in spiceries and other East India goods, which they distributed among the other nations of Europe.
The consumption of the porcelain of China, of the spiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal, and of innumerable other articles, has increased very nearly in a like proportion.
In the spice islands, the Dutch are said to burn all the spiceries which a fertile season produces, beyond what they expect to dispose of in Europe with such a profit as they think sufficient.