It has been hypothesized that elemicine (found in nutmeg) metabolizes to TMA:
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Myristicin, elemicine, and safrole appear to be responsible for the psychoactive effects. Apparently an amination takes place during metabolism that transforms these substances into centrally active amphetamine derivatives (Isaac 1993, 883; Shulgin and Naranjo 1967; Weil 1965, 1967). Amination of myristicin yields MMDA (= 3-methoxy-4,5-methylendioxyamphetamine), a known entactogenic compound (Shulgin and Shulgin 1991*). Elemicine is transformed into TMA (3,4,5-trimethoxyamphetamine), a substance related to mescaline.[/i]
Isaac, Otto. 1993.
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Shulgin, Alexander T., Thornton Sargent, and Claudia [
sic] Naranjo. 1967. The chemistry and psychopharmacology of nutmeg and of several related phenylisopropylamines. In
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U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Weil, Andrew. 1965. Nutmeg as a narcotic. Economic Botany 19:194–217.
———. 1967. Nutmeg as a psychotropic drug. In
Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs, ed. D. Efron, 188–201. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants. Christian Ratsch, 2005 (The Most Important Genera and Species from A to Z / Myristica fragrans / Constituents)
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ackl.me/books/TheEncyclopediaOfPsychoactivePlants.pdf
Might be relevant:
Bioanalytical investigation of asarone in connection with Acorus calamus oil intoxications. Björnstad K, Helander A, Hultén P, Beck O. J Anal Toxicol. 2009 Nov-Dec;33(9):604-9. doi: 10.1093/jat/33.9.604