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The Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper that described the psychoactive effects of catnip in people. People who smoked catnip were said to become happy and relaxed. Catnip has always been used by people, for whom it is a mild, safe sedative, and quoted from another medical text, "it is possible to obtain a very mild intoxication when catnip is mixed in equal parts with tobacco." This plant is not just for cats.
The essential oil in catnip contains a monoterpene similar to the valepotriates found in valerian, a widely renowned sedative.
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