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“It’s common knowledge among spice merchants that nutmeg is supposed to be a hallucinogen,” says Tom Erd, owner of The Spice House in Chicago. “But I’ve tried eating it, smoking it, and drinking it, and nothing’s happened to me.”
Probably because he didn’t eat, smoke, or drink enough.
Nutmeg and its sister spice, mace—the seed and the membrane that covers it, respectively, from the Myristica fragrans tree—both contain a substance called myristicin. A potent narcotic compound, it can cause hallucinations when eaten in large amounts. However, it also causes serious dry mouth, nausea, and vomiting, which makes nutmeg an unlikely candidate for recreational drug use.
The key word here is large. A sprinkling of nutmeg on your eggnog latte is not going to turn the barista into a lizard. According to several medical reports, it would take somewhere between 5 and 15 grams of grated spice (about one to two whole nutmeg seeds) to induce any sort of narcotic reaction. Fatal nutmeg poisonings are rare—the last reported case was in 2001—and most occur from eating copious amounts of the spice in an attempt to get high. (The drug requires several hours to take effect, during which time people sometimes ingest more, thinking they have not eaten enough.)
To add a certain je ne sais quoi to baked goods, you can’t go wrong with nutmeg. To trip out, you’d probably have better luck smoking banana peels.
why the heck would you smoke nutmeg? are drug addicts running out of things to smoke or weed and crack just not doing it for them anymore?
i once took three tablespoons ae around 3 oclock in the morning after a couple hours of not feeling any effects i just went to bed. the next morning when i woke up i could definently feel the effects, i thouyght it felt pretty good and it lasted very long. and if you eat the nutmeg with orange juice its alot better(at least for me)and i didnt have any weird or bad side effects the ext couple days
nutmeg, banana peels and mace are a myth. Lots of people tried them all and a few added them to marijuana and whenever that happened there was less effect. Several tried drying the peels in ovens and it just smells funny .
I went to high school in the late 60s near Haight Ashbury when drugs were available everywhere and pot was king. Lot of people tried all of them and I don't remember any one...+READ
nutmeg, banana peels and mace are a myth. Lots of people tried them all and a few added them to marijuana and whenever that happened there was less effect. Several tried drying the peels in ovens and it just smells funny .
I went to high school in the late 60s near Haight Ashbury when drugs were available everywhere and pot was king. Lot of people tried all of them and I don't remember any one having success.-COLLAPSE
So This morning I woke up and put 1 tablespoon of organic grounded nutmeg in my sweet tea, after getting it all down, i sat around and watched tv episodes on my laptop. One and a half hours later I start to feel a bit of a buzz. Now its been 5 or 6 hours and i feel really high. I have hallucinated but I defiantly feel like I hit a couple bowls of some mid grade weed. It nice, especially on a day...+READ
So This morning I woke up and put 1 tablespoon of organic grounded nutmeg in my sweet tea, after getting it all down, i sat around and watched tv episodes on my laptop. One and a half hours later I start to feel a bit of a buzz. Now its been 5 or 6 hours and i feel really high. I have hallucinated but I defiantly feel like I hit a couple bowls of some mid grade weed. It nice, especially on a day that I have completely nothing to do. The best amount is around 1 or 2 tablespoons, anything over that is a bit too risky. Drinks lots of water so you don't get dehydrated and ENJOY! I surely am. ;)-COLLAPSE
During my 2-10pm shift at Wal-Mart I decided to debunk this myth. During my break at about 6 or 7pm I went to the seasoning aisle and bought a bottle of whole nutmeg. I ate about 3 at first because, that's what I remembered from a website. And I made the mistake to just eat everything in the bottle, which was 5. Nothing happened until I started driving home at around 10:30. I actually started to...+READ
During my 2-10pm shift at Wal-Mart I decided to debunk this myth. During my break at about 6 or 7pm I went to the seasoning aisle and bought a bottle of whole nutmeg. I ate about 3 at first because, that's what I remembered from a website. And I made the mistake to just eat everything in the bottle, which was 5. Nothing happened until I started driving home at around 10:30. I actually started to feel good. But, then it later on changed to a stomachache by the time I got home. So, I got home and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning and I just felt like I was going to die. I was freaking out. At some points I was laughing because I could have sworn I was living in the 80's. It was always a switch and nothing consistent. Now, it was about 1pm and I'm feeling horrible and I have to go to work. I tried to suck it up and I drove 30 minutes to work. When I arrive to work, I walk to my department and I'm just standing there spacing out. The guy I work with that I'm suppose to relieve looks at me and tells me I look like shit. I was probably drooling too. He then tells me to just go home because I look sick. Then I go home and I start to panic. It was a new experience so, I didn't know what to expect and hope I wasn't going to die due to an overdose. The second day it started to ware off and I took a huge dump (don't know if that had anything to do with it). But, I won't do that anytime soon. I can't say that I wouldn't recommend it because I did take too much. Oh and by the way, it tasted horrible. It like numbs your tongue.
So, that's my experience. It definitely works.-COLLAPSE
Well I'm suppose to be at the peak of highness right now after eating almost 3 table spoons of nutmeg 5 hours ago, but the only think that has happend to me is a stomach ache and I keep seeing things out of the perifials of my eyes but other then that I don't feel anything.... I weigh 190 and it didn't really do a whole lot for me... You would have to eat like 5 tablespoons of nutmeg to get you...+READ
Well I'm suppose to be at the peak of highness right now after eating almost 3 table spoons of nutmeg 5 hours ago, but the only think that has happend to me is a stomach ache and I keep seeing things out of the perifials of my eyes but other then that I don't feel anything.... I weigh 190 and it didn't really do a whole lot for me... You would have to eat like 5 tablespoons of nutmeg to get you high, but you would probably throw up...-COLLAPSE
My best friend in high school and I did copious research on bio-pharmaceuticals readily available to small-town teenagers, and in all tries failed miserably. Nutmeg, lettuce "opium", morning glory seeds, four-o-clock seeds...we accomplished nothing, mostly because we were so afraid of overdoing it that I'm sure we under-medicated. Eventually, we moved on to beer and wine, but last I heard, he was...+READ
My best friend in high school and I did copious research on bio-pharmaceuticals readily available to small-town teenagers, and in all tries failed miserably. Nutmeg, lettuce "opium", morning glory seeds, four-o-clock seeds...we accomplished nothing, mostly because we were so afraid of overdoing it that I'm sure we under-medicated. Eventually, we moved on to beer and wine, but last I heard, he was a Southern Baptist minister in Alabama, so it's likely he's moved past all that stuff.-COLLAPSE
Have doubts? Any pharmacist can confirm this stuff. They are a wealth of information!
We tried this in college. We acquired a couple of cans of nutmeg and spent the rest of the evening eating it, smoking it, snorting it, you name it - and all that ended up happening was that we ended up writing a very long disjointed poem on the wall of the student government office and sneezing brown crap for a week or so afterwards.
2 WARNINGS. I used to eat nutmeg in a banana milkshake, great taste. Had about 20-25 trips (1-2 teaspoons; 5-10g). HOWEVER, when researching the subject, I came across somewhere on the internet that it is (1) carcinogenic to the liver. So I stopped doing that.
Also, I found that after a while the mere taste of it made me gag. I think my liver recognised the stuff and was telling me something...+READ
2 WARNINGS. I used to eat nutmeg in a banana milkshake, great taste. Had about 20-25 trips (1-2 teaspoons; 5-10g). HOWEVER, when researching the subject, I came across somewhere on the internet that it is (1) carcinogenic to the liver. So I stopped doing that.
Also, I found that after a while the mere taste of it made me gag. I think my liver recognised the stuff and was telling me something because now I find it very hard to eat anything with the taste of nutmeg in it as it makes me nauseous. (2) So if you like your food with nutmeg on it, do not use it as a hallucinogen.
As for the value judgements, humans have used all kinds of herbs and substances for millenia for all kinds of reasons, both for their psychotropic and biological effects. When humans discovered that fermented starch gave them a buzz and relaxed their digestion, but also caused nausea, disorientation and mood disturbance, withdrawal effects, and erectile dysfunction, that did not stop them using it. And I won't get onto Carl Sagan's theory about the co-evolution of hemp (seed;flowers) and human physical health and consciousness.
I now eat a lot of raw 'live foods', man that gets me HIGH! (Seriously)-COLLAPSE
After reading some "trip reports" on Erowid, I think there is good reason for ordinary people to avoid it. Of course, ordinary people wouldn't down tablespoon after tablespoon of nutmeg powder in order to get high.
Overdosing on nutmeg causes temporary impotence in men, so beware... I'm not aware of any permanent damage and you'd have to eat quite a bit, either way no reason to avoid it as I see it.
Folks, the secret is....
COMBINE the banana peels AND the nutmeg............
Why do you think banana bread is REALLY GOOD ??!!!
:-)
BTW, the song "mellow yellow" was not referring to bananas.
What it does refer to, I will leave to your imagination, or further research.
No way. How about YOU do it?
Hoax? you eat a tablespoon and post back please.
I actually witnessed someone have a nutmeg "trip", when my best friend and I were 14. We learned about it in some drug education film or other, with which we were bombarded (I'm talking about the early 70's, and those films were good for giving one ideas more than anything else). Her name was Michele, and she swallowed a Heaping Handful (probably about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of it. Later that day, she...+READ
I actually witnessed someone have a nutmeg "trip", when my best friend and I were 14. We learned about it in some drug education film or other, with which we were bombarded (I'm talking about the early 70's, and those films were good for giving one ideas more than anything else). Her name was Michele, and she swallowed a Heaping Handful (probably about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of it. Later that day, she had quite an experience, and I wasn't sure if she was faking it or not, but decided she probably wasn't, because if she had been, it would've been Oscar-worthy. A heaping handful of nutmeg, though? YUCK!!!!-COLLAPSE
Ooops - I meant the trivia, not nutmeg, ha ha.
Never heard this about Nutmeg -- I'll use it at my next cocktail party.
That article on bannadine was hysterical. Thanks for the link.
Oh, lighten up. Some of us enjoy ALL the dirt on food. Why put a fence around certain areas of curiosity and say we won't go there? If you're not interested, then don't click on that topic.
Chowhound whats wrong with you,stop corrupting kids and stick to food.I don't know who does these articles but between the one about asparagus pee and this one I'm about to leave Chowhound and any more offensive articles they'll be a mass Exodus.People have limits.Why destroy such a great site?Thats foolish.
Oh, it's a hoax... but one with a venerable history. Inspired by the 1967 hit song "Mellow Yellow", there were probably hundreds of hippies who spent hours smoking banana peels and wondering when they would get high. And probably some investors who rushed to buy United Fruit stock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananadine
Wow, um, I never knew that about banana peels. Thanks, Chow?