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Calea ternifolia (syn. Calea zacatechichi) [1] is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico and Central America. [1] Its English language common names include bitter-grass, Mexican calea, [1] and dream herb. [2] It is used in traditional medicine and ritual in its native range. [3]
Many dream-enhancing plants such as dream herb (Calea zacatechichi) and African dream herb (Entada rheedii), as well as the hallucinogenic diviner's sage (Salvia divinorum), have been used for thousands of years in a form of divination through dreams, called oneiromancy, in which practitioners seek to receive psychic or prophetic information ...
Caleicine is a unique sesquiterpene compound found exclusively in Calea ternifolia, a Mexican flowering plant known for its potential psychoactive properties. [1] This compound has garnered interest in the field of ethnopharmacology and natural product chemistry due to its putative role as a prodrug of eugenol, a potent GABA positive modulator.
Calea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] They are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions [ 5 ] in Mexico , Central America , and South America . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
Calea ternifolia: Leaf: Caleicines and caleochromenes Oneirogen: The Chontal people of Oaxaca reportedly use the plant, known locally as thle-pela-kano, during divination. [51] Blue water lily: Nymphaea caerulea: Flower: Aporphine, and nuciferine: Depressant: Mayans and the Ancient Egyptians. [52] Chili pepper: Capsicum spp. Fruit: Capsaicin ...
Silene undulata is regarded by the Xhosa people as a sacred plant.Its root is traditionally used to induce vivid (and according to the Xhosa, prophetic) lucid dreams during the initiation process of traditional healers, classifying it a naturally occurring oneirogen similar to the more well-known dream herb Calea zacatechichi.
A promotional poster for "Tisane Gauloise", by Paul Berthon. Some feel [clarification needed] that the term tisane is more correct than herbal tea or that the latter is even misleading, but most dictionaries record that the word tea is also used to refer to other plants beside the tea plant and to beverages made from these other plants.
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