Myristicin
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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, therefore it is neuroactive.
Intoxication of Myristicin or nutmeg essential oil may be similar to XTC intoxication, mimicing psychosis (e.g. false schizophrenia diagnosis, etc.)
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