Taking the spice route: Psychoactive properties of culinary spices

Current Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 21-32

  Bourgeois, James A ^a   Parthasarathi, Usha ^b   Hategan, Ana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASARONE; EUGENOL; MYRISTICIN; PIPERINE; VANILLIN;

ALPINIA OFFICINARUM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASAFOETIDA; BLACK PEPPER; CINNAMON; CLOVE; CONFABULATION; CROCUS SATIVUS; CURCUMA LONGA; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; EUPHORIA; FEAR; FENNEL; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINGER; HALLUCINATION; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NAUSEA; NUTMEG; PSYCHOACTIVE PLANT; SEDATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPICE; VANILLA; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84898852768     PISSN: 15378276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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