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Madame82 wrote:<BR>
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http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbal_medicine/side_effects/nutmeg_side_effects.html<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Interesting! I was never much of a tea fan, but I should try a batch of nutmeg tea just to experience its plethora of potentially damaging side effects. Maybe it explains a lot of Scrooge's behavior and/or money-related neurosis?<BR>
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According to the mentioned Web site:<BR>
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"Taking too much nutmeg can cause hallucinations."<BR>
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It's official: All that money ISN'T REALLY THERE.<BR>
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"High dosage can cause bizarre behavior and visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations along with nausea, gagging, hot/cold sensations, and blurred vision followed by numbness, double, and 'triple' vision, headache, and drowsiness." <BR>
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That would explain the large batch of "mischaracterized" Scrooge incidents in "DuckTales."<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">"An overdose of nutmeg can be fatal."<BR>
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The REAL reason a "Death of Scrooge" story will never see print!<BR>
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"High dosage can cause bizarre behavior and visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations along with nausea, gagging, hot/cold sensations, and blurred vision followed by numbness, double, and 'triple' vision, headache, and drowsiness." <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Ye cats and little kittens!<BR>
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"Nutmeg contains several compounds with structural similarities to substances with known central nervous system neuromodulatory activity."<BR>
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Ah-HA!<BR>
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"A case of acute anticholinergic hyperstimulation in a pregnant woman was associated with excessive ingestion of nutmeg."<BR>
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Does nutmeg-addiction run in the family? Does this have "HDL explanation" written all over it?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Ocha wa dame desu-yo! <== Most likely horribly wrong.<BR>
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Please don't hate me for this ultimately pointless addition to DCML.<BR>
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