Polytrip, as I’m sure you realize, chewing and spitting it out would lead to more sublingual absorption, while swallowing it would lead to little or no sublingual absorption. Different compounds absorb better by different routes. For example, 5-MeO-DMT is super active sublingually, but only slightly active orally. Mescaline is highly active orally, but only slightly active sublingually. So that if you have a mix of mescaline and 5-MeO-DMT and took it orally, you’d get more mescaline effect, but if taken sublingually you’d get more 5-MeO-DMT effect. I imagine the same would be the case with nutmeg. It’s likely that one method gives more effect from elemicin while the other gives more effect from myristicin (assuming these are the actives).

Myristicin is described as being marijuana-like, and sedating. Elemicin is described as being more upbeat, more simulating. So possibly myristicin is more active orally and elemicin is more active sublingually?