Smoking Essential Oils

[Thirdedge]

Has anyone tried smoking essiential oils?

I have been doing some experimenting with this lately. Either by placing a drop on top of my favourite herb in a waterpipe or just adding the oil only. They are highly volitile so be carefull.

I have found the following effects:

Neroli - not much effect
Patcholi - mild euphoria
Jasmine - nice euphoria
Frankinsence - mild euphoria
Clary sage - mild euphoria, interesting
Lavender - strong taste / relaxing effect - like the effect, hate the taste.
Ylang Ylang - nice euphoria
Lemon - not much effect
Sandlewood - mild euphoria
Rose - not much effect

I have heard rumour of people getting effects from Cedarwood and Juniper.

Has anyone else tried this? Any ideas on what to try next? Any cautions?

[Alicia]

Lavender is great in the bath. although this is all interesting.

[smoggy32]

I thought essential oils were actually quite dangerous to ingest, and i think inhaling would be similaly dangerous depending on the oil.

Some essential oils are forbidden to be used on pregnant women because they are bad for the developing baby. In short i think you have to be careful when inhaling them.

Good luck tho, and do please tell if you find one thats really good.

[dokter_bob]

hmmm, interesting....I never heard of such thing like this....ingesting the essential oil can cause serious liver damage....
but by burning it it dissolves in air very very quickly so it doesnt sound to effective....Try hanging over the roomvaporizer! hahaha
(joke)

[genaro]

if I would have to smoke essential oils I would start with:

wormwood:
oil contains 62.2% thujone (narcotic, relaxing & analgesic)

salvia officinalis (sage):
oil contains 42,5% thujone

fennel:
oil is containing 50-60% anethole, some estragole(aka methyl chavicol) and 20% fenchone (fennel oil is said to be psychoactive)

anise:
oil is containing 60-80% anethole,5-6% estragole and some trans-anethole.

tarragon:
oil is containing 70% estragole.

basil:
oil is containing 90% estragole

bay leaf:
oil contains 10% chavicol

dill:
Aneth oil contains 10% dill-apiole, eugenol, limonene, carvone and myristicine (dill-apiole is said to be a "psychedelic amphetamine active at 70mg", but maybe this is bullshit)

parsley:
parsley oil is containing 20% myristicine (hallucinogen!), 18% apiole (amphetamine like compound) and 12%beta-phellandrene

celery:
essential oil of celery contains dill-apiole

nutmeg:
oil contains Myristicin (up to 4%, it can be as high as 10%), elemicin, safrole (0.1-3%), eugenol (myristicin is hallucinogenic)

cloves:
A mild euphoriant.Contains eugenol

cinnamon:
"ceylan" cinnamon oil is containing 50-80% cinnamaldehyde and 4-8% eugenol. A mild stimulant.

sassafras:
oil contains 70-80%safrole.

pouliot mint:
oil is containing 85% R-(+)-pulegone

calamus:
oil is containing 80% beta-asarone (hallucinogenic)

hyssop:
oil contains 50% pinene, hyssop is psychoactive and has sedating/relaxing effects

lemon balm(aka melissa): contains citral

saffron:
saffron is hallucinogenic (but also very toxic in high dose)

angelica:
oil is said to be psychoactive

caraway: aphrodisiac

cardamom: a mild stimulant

camomile: a mild relaxant/sedative

veronica ??

coriander ??

oregon ??

liquorice??



Essential oils can be very dangerous, start with a few drops no more (2 or 3 drops at the first trial) and increase dosage very progressively.
Even if a few essential oils may produce hallucinations with oral use, the required dose to produce hallucinations is often a very toxic dose accompanied with convulsions...and death is possible.
Smoking the oils is probably safer but one should still be very careful anyway, once again essential oils are really dangerous stuff.
You also have to know that quite a few compounds found in common spices are known to be harmful to the liver and kidneys.
Also be very careful as you might find yourself allergic to some of these spices which could be really dangerous (an allergic choc can be lifre threatening, especially if the substance was inhaled).


Keep us informed of your results.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Thanks for this very usefull infomation.

[Thirdedge]

So Im guessing the dangers are from the oil being a concentrated form of the Toxins which are in the plant as opposed to some kind of solvent or chemical residue leftover from the manufacturing process?

[genaro]

yess the danger is from the oil itself ...anyway oils arn't produced using any chemicals/solvant , oils are obtained the following way:
the finely powdered plant is macerated in water for a few days and then the mix is ditillated to leave the water & plant powder in the heating flask and the essential oil goes in the recieveing flask.
If the actives from the plant arn't water soluble (this is the case for thujone from wormwood), then you use (drinkable) 96% alcohol as the solvant (instead of water), at the end of the process the recieveing flask will contain oils+alcohol. The alcohol is then evaporated to leave you with the oils (containing the actives)

[genaro]

thirdeye, please keep us informed of your results, I'm very interested in these as I'm using almost each of these plants (excepting a few ones) in the manufacture of homemade absinth, and the oils from these plants/spices are clearly responsible for the very strong narcotic effect of the absinth I make. So I'm very interested in underestanding which plants that I put in the mix have the strongest influence on its effects (and smoking essential oils is clearly a good way to determine it)...then I will be more able to adjust the proportions of each plant I use to get a more psychedelic/narcotic absinth reducing liver toxicity at the same time which would be great.