Myristica fragrans

Nutmeg

It should be noted that the dose required to feel hallucinogenic effects from nutmeg is dangerously close to the toxic dose. Nutmeg is sometimes used as an inebriating agent by the desperate when nothing else is available.

Isolated Chemicals:

Preparations:

• Mentholated ointment
  Vicks VapoRub

Documents:

• Extracting Myristicin & Safrole from Nutmeg
• The Use of Nutmeg as a Psychotropic Agent by Andrew Weil
  A wealth of information about nutmeg, written while Weil was at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA.

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Contacts and URLs:

• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • Nutmeg Vault (related items...)
• King's American Dispensatory (homepage, more info)
  Excellent reference for plants and preparations
  • King's American Dispensatory entry for Nutmeg
    Overview of plant, chemistry and use (related items...)

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Images:

• Myristica fragrans
• Myristica fragrans
• Myristica fragrans
• Myristica fragrens (Nutmeg)
  Nutmeg growing in nature

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Trip Reports:

• I Love Nutmeg!: Pleasant memories..
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Smoking Nutmeg: Essential oils are smoked
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Blackout: smoked nutmeg
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Danger, Will Robinson!: Another Nutmeg Warning
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Nutmeg, good?: okay, sure.
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Nutmeg + School = BAD: Bad drug, poor setting
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Nutty: One user finds nutmeg to be a suitable ally
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Nutmeg- The Revenge: unpleasant is an understatement
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Nutmeg- The Adventure: a brief account
  Substances: Myristica fragrans
• Curiosity: I really felt like I had poisoned myself
  Substances: Myristica fragrans

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