Yesterday I had a phone call to a friend. He went to the hospital for nine days last month, including a stay at the intensive care unit for two days.
The reason was that he woke up in the morning and felt rather strange. His arms were numb and he thought that there is Sellotape around his fingers. He watched his hands almost continuosly and so his wife started to worry. He was drinking 3 bottles of water within a short period of time. Then he collapsed. And whenever he came around he talked nonsense and watched his hands.
In the hospital the doctors didn't know what's going on. He didn't answer any questions. He just always repeated what they said and asked. It might sound funny, but they thought that this might be a case for the psychiatry. During the first night he drank 3 liters of water, but did exude 9 liters. There also was an 80 years old man in the same intensive care unit. He accidentally had the same name as my friend. So my friend thought that he is the old man, and that he is watching himself (out-of-body experience), lying in the intensive care unit for decades :rofl:
The next day he was fine again. The doctors looked for everything within the following 7 days. But they didn't find any cause.
When his sister was in the hospital for a visit, they talked about the meal which my friend and his wife had in the evening before he went to the hospital. It was a pumpkin soup. Nothing unusual. They talked about the ingredients, which was of course pumpkin, ginger, nutmeg and other things. Then his sister asked how much nutmeg they put into the soup, since nutmeg can cause a state of intoxication. It was one table spoon, which equals about 9 gram. They talked to the doctors, but they just laughed and said that this is nonsense. So he left the hospital without any results.
Meanwhile it turned out that the idea ragarding nutmeg wasn't nonsense at all. It is reported that 4 gram already can cause a state of intoxication. My friend emptied three plates of the pumpkin soup while his wife emptied only one. Remember that there was 9 gram of nutmeg in the soup. And I guess that cooking might increase the "effects".
I've never heard of it before :blink:
And no, it's not recommendable to try it. Hands off!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/large-doses-nutmeg-hallucinogenic-high/story?id=12347815#.UJKluoYuc8o
The reason was that he woke up in the morning and felt rather strange. His arms were numb and he thought that there is Sellotape around his fingers. He watched his hands almost continuosly and so his wife started to worry. He was drinking 3 bottles of water within a short period of time. Then he collapsed. And whenever he came around he talked nonsense and watched his hands.
In the hospital the doctors didn't know what's going on. He didn't answer any questions. He just always repeated what they said and asked. It might sound funny, but they thought that this might be a case for the psychiatry. During the first night he drank 3 liters of water, but did exude 9 liters. There also was an 80 years old man in the same intensive care unit. He accidentally had the same name as my friend. So my friend thought that he is the old man, and that he is watching himself (out-of-body experience), lying in the intensive care unit for decades :rofl:
The next day he was fine again. The doctors looked for everything within the following 7 days. But they didn't find any cause.
When his sister was in the hospital for a visit, they talked about the meal which my friend and his wife had in the evening before he went to the hospital. It was a pumpkin soup. Nothing unusual. They talked about the ingredients, which was of course pumpkin, ginger, nutmeg and other things. Then his sister asked how much nutmeg they put into the soup, since nutmeg can cause a state of intoxication. It was one table spoon, which equals about 9 gram. They talked to the doctors, but they just laughed and said that this is nonsense. So he left the hospital without any results.
Meanwhile it turned out that the idea ragarding nutmeg wasn't nonsense at all. It is reported that 4 gram already can cause a state of intoxication. My friend emptied three plates of the pumpkin soup while his wife emptied only one. Remember that there was 9 gram of nutmeg in the soup. And I guess that cooking might increase the "effects".
I've never heard of it before :blink:
And no, it's not recommendable to try it. Hands off!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/large-doses-nutmeg-hallucinogenic-high/story?id=12347815#.UJKluoYuc8o
