rubber-hound posted: I'm talking about absinthe. All the legends are true, it does screw with your head, and gives you a headache the morning after, i've tried. anyone had some interesting experience with absinthe and wants to share?
Are there any other psychoactive elements present in Absinthe ? Anise is another one of the main herbs used in making legitimate Absinthe. It is not toxic, however a strong dose induces drunkenness, trembling, epileptic convulsions, muscle spasms, analgesia and sleep, just like opium. Fennel, as has anise seed, fennel seed has a potentially psychoactive anethole. Hyssop, in progressive doses, is believed to have a convulsive property. Angelica root is grown as a drug in Lapland. Coriander is mentioned as an aphrodisiac in the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights, and is said, in the same text, to conjure up the Devil when used in combination with fennel. Calamis contains psychoactive asarones, used as an inebriant by Native Americans. So we are left wondering if Absinthe, or rather wormwood and its essence thujone in Absinthe, is to blame for its effects.