Myristicin
Myristicin is a chemical present in nutmeg. It has hallucinogenic properties at doses much higher than used in cooking.
Myristicin is a naturally occuring insecticide and acaricide with probable neurotoxic effects on dopaminergic neurons. It causes brain damage.
It is probably converted to an amphetamine metabolite in the liver, hence is neuroactive.
Intoxication of Myristicin or nutmeg essential oil may be similar to XTC intoxication, mimicing psychosis (e.g. false schizophrenia diagnosis, etc.) However, often the effect is no more than an extremely unpleasant, long-lasting nausea and long-time revulsion to nutmeg.
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