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Published on August 17th, 2013 12:52 AM
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Who would have thought that little jar in your kitchen Cabinet would have held the key to such dramatic historical consequences. Mainly because of the plauge and greed.
In low doses, nutmeg produces no noticeable physiological or neurological response, but in large enough doses nutmeg is a hallucinogen, thanks to a psychoactive chemical called myristicin,a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and psychoactive substance which is related to mescaline and amphetamine.
People have known about the interesting effects of nutmeg for centuries; the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen wrote about it, for one.
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