Nutmeg

Plant Medicine, Empathogenica

Nutmeg

Myristica fragrans. Mace (the fruit aril)

Nutmeg is the dried seed kernel of Myristica fragrans, a Moluccan tree of the Myristicaceae (same family as the South American DMT-source Virola). At psychoactive doses (a sizable spoonful or more), produces a slow onset of empathogenic/dreamy effects lasting well into the next day, often with heavy nausea — Pendell's "drug-of-last-resort."

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See also

MDMA, MDA, Cinnamon

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Pharmacy

Starting dose

0.5–1 oz (10–30 g) ground for psychoactive effect; far smaller for culinary use

Preparations

Ground dried seed (nutmeg) or fruit aril (mace); occasionally infused

Common uses

Classification(s)

Classes

Plant Medicine, Empathogenica

Pharmacology

Routes

Oral

Onset

Slow — 2–6 h

Duration

12–24 h or longer

Purported mechanism

Active oils are myristicin, elemicin, and safrole — phenethylamine precursors that may be aminated in vivo to MMDA, TMA, and MDA respectively (Shulgin's 'essential amphetamines' hypothesis).

“Pendell's corner

The drug-of-last-resort. Myself, I like nutmeg in eggnog.

— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Dynamis, p. 199