Macropiper excelsum is a great replacement for nutmeg. It has myristicin and elemicin like nutmeg but it also has piperine because it is a pepper plant. I have been smoking a lot of it lately and it is very euphoric. It is also great made into a strong tea.
Wow, that's really cool! I never imagined that there'd be a plant with built-in enzyme inhibition. That's like, I don't know, it's comparable to Mimosa Tenuiflora containing significant amounts of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor! Awesome!
Nope, gulped it down immediately in a shot glass sized amount of Mountain Dew.
Digested, not ingested. And yes, I think the slow digestion is due to you now boiling it. You'll see what I mean when you try it - raw, nutmeg is crunchy as fuck. When you boil it (well, simmer really, and finely chopped, for 30-45 minutes) it becomes almost like oatmeal in consistency.
reminds me of how cocaine interacts with ethanol, vanillin & Aspirin which each make different active constituent metabolites in vivo. The first a transesterification, and the second two a re-constituted benzoyl group to the naturally cleaved benzoyl metabolite serving to reactivate the ecgonine tropane to a yet again functional DARI with more affinity than having benzoyl proper as its constituent conformation.
Thanks for providing this brilliant example of a situation where drugs change each other's metabolites. I was starting to think some people didn't believe it to be possible at all...
About my experience some days ago - scratch that, I'm not going to write up a longer report, but I will try to explain one feeling that I have now been getting every time I've dosed a significant amount of elemi. It usually only comes once during the "trip" (I don't like to call it that, but "experience" takes so long to type), and it seems like it may be the peak, usually occurring 3-5 hours into the trip. It's as if I suffer a slow loss of proprioception over the course of 10-15 seconds. If I then close my eyes, I feel completely dissociated and disconnected from the outside world. Even if I move my limbs around I still can't judge accurately where they are in relation to my body. It's much different from dissociation I've experienced on DXM or nitrous or extremely retardedly baked... It's more of a feeling of just being a torso and a head, instead of feeling like you're just a consciousness. Oh, and this is the best part: there's also a significant rush of euphoria and beautiful CEVs during this part of the trip.
I actually came here to say something else. I've been an almost everyday toker since the summer of 2009, but quit smoking weed non-socially last Thursday.
Well, at 1 pm today I drank a cup of tea from one nutmeg nut, organic grown, very fresh and strongly smelling so probably very potent, weighing 2.8 grams. I had another cup from a 2.1 gram nut at 3 pm.
At 4 pm I dosed 10 drops of elemi oil sub-lingually...
...and I drank a 20-drop elemi oil milkshake at 7 pm.
I was feeling the nutmeg in less than 20 minutes (as usual, I think some sub-lingual myristicin absorbtion happens) and I am completely and utterly convinced this was not a placebo effect. My cannabis cravings disappeared immediately, and my mind switched from feeling like a billion Ferraris overcrowding a superhighway to feeling like a rainbow-colored VW beetle happily strolling along the scenic route. Nothing more happened until I started the next cup of nutmeg tea, at which point the mellow feeling intensified and I started feeling slightly "megged out", for me that means dry mouth, dry eyes, slightly blurry vision, a light non-painful and ignorable throbbing in the back of my head, and very slight but noticable mood lift with transient euphoria.
This kept intensifying until around 6:30, where I suddenly became quite stimulated. I'd been a bit tired all day despite having slept well, but suddenly I felt weird and I kicked into gear, I was moving around like I usually only do on MDMA or speed, I was cleaning the fuck out of everything, doing fifteen things at once and keeping track of them all, I spoke to my dad for half an hour on the phone telling him about me quitting my everyday cannabis use and a lot of other stuff that's currently going on in my life, and after that I played two games of Red Alert 2 against him that I dominated so brutally as I ever have - I was all over the map, again doing a million things at once but keeping track of them all... It was awesome. And holy fuck am I still stimulated. I mean, have you seen the length of this post? Did you see that run-on sentence I just wrote, I mean, holy fuck, this shit really works, and it's different.
That's my point. It's much, much different from when I toyed with the same things while smoking every day. And oh the euphoria. Holy crap this feels good. It's like a warm, happy feeling that radiates out from my spine into my stomach and all the way into my thighs. It comes in a ten-second wave every couple minutes or so. It's not rushy at all, but actually mellowing and relaxing. My body is completely relaxed, sedated and mellowed out right now, but my mind is moving at lightning speeds, and in the good way, not in the "ferraris clutting up the highway" way.
This is of course only the first of my trials with combined nutmeg and elemi oil (no pepper, remember that!) after ceasing my everyday smoking, but I am almost convinced that my liver was, before, busy with processing the cannabinoids and their gazillion metabolites, and therefore unable to properly metabolize the elemi oil into what I want it to be metabolized into.
The funny thing is that I've usually only been using nutmeg when I have run out of weed for a few days and the cravings have set in (psychological cravings, I know, but cravings nonetheless), so I wasn't aware of the huge difference because I simply hadn't had a reason to combine the two (nutmeg and cannabis) before I started with my elemi oil trials, which were unrelated to lack of cannabis and simply due to curiosity.
Take from this what you want, but I think it's interesting. Time to go do some research!
Edit: I think I'll go repost most of this on the Experience board. Yeah, I'll do that!