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Originally posted by Sweetbriar
We ate at a very nice Thai restaurant tonight and halfway thru the Pad Thai (?) it occurred to me that I had caught a buzz not unlike what I get from wine. Mind you, I don't drink much so only one glass has me singing in the car on the way home. I thought it was just me, but another lady said she felt it, too. What sort of herbs or spices would Thai food that might have that affect?
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Were you eating any other dishes at the time? When this has happened to me I have thought of it being the Galangal (Kha). Galangal is a brown rhizome (rooty type thing) that is used in Thai cooking (for example, in soup or curry). It has some characterized effects described as a stimulant, aphrodesiac, and mild hallucinatory.
Currently used as a medicine for stomach ailments in some countries, or so I hear.