It seems like some people don't experience psychedelic effects from elemi oil, even very good quality elemi oil. I'm not sure why, but SWIM knows a few people who've tried doses of SWIM's very potent elemi oil that’s very psychedelic for SWIM, and they didn't get any psychedelic effects at all. I’m starting to wonder if all these mixed results are not so much from elemicin content but rather from individual sensitivity to elemicin.

It’s a known fact that people react to pure myristicin very different. Some get almost no side effects and lots of psychedelic effects from it, and others get side effects and little else, and yet others get pretty much no effects from it.

Elemicin is not known for side effects like myristicin, but I imagine its metabolism in humans is very similar to that of myristicin. It’s probably likely that people who get almost no psychedelic effects from pure myristicin probably won’t easily trip from elemicin either.

Maybe there’s an enzyme that needs to be inhibited in some people, like say cytochrome P450, in order for them to experience psychedelic effects from elemicin?