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The Nahuatl word ololiuhqui means "round thing", and refers to the small, brown, oval seeds of the morning glory, [5] not the plant itself, which is called coaxihuitl (“snake-plant") in Nahuatl, and hiedra, bejuco or quiebraplatos in the Spanish language. The seeds, in Spanish, are sometimes called semilla de la Virgen (seeds of the Virgin Mary).
Morning glory (also written as morning-glory [1]) is the common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics are in flux. Morning glory species belong to many genera , some of which are:
Use Regions/Cultures of use Morning glory: T. corymbosa, and Ipomoea violacea: Numerology "indigenous ritual use indicates dose levels for T. corymbosa, and I. violacea which are far lower than that perceived as necessary to effect hallucinosis in members of modern Western cultures. In Mexico, the only place in the world where the ingestion of ...
Students are ingesting a seed that can cause psychosis, auditory and visual hallucinations, spatial and temporal distortion and other side effects. Forget pot -- students use familiar method to ...
Use of Morning Glory seeds as a drug [ edit ] Sleepy grass and C. paspali, having similar chemical profiles to Morning Glory seeds have also been used as a drug, [ 71 ] [ 72 ] but only rarely, so this article is giving precedence to Morning Glory seeds.
The seeds of the plant have been mentioned to contain up to 0.5% of lysergol, an ergoline alkaloid also found in other Ipomoea and fungi from the Claviceps genus. [6] Patents filed by the company Farmex describe the use of this plant for the production of such alakaloids, [7] even though the industrial relevancy of these processes is questionable when compared to other means of production.
The Ipomoea obscura, commonly known as the obscure morning glory or the small white morning glory, is a species of the genus Ipomoea. It is an invasive species native to parts of Africa, Asia, and certain Pacific Islands. While the plant's seeds are toxic, the leaves can be used for many different medicinal purposes.
Ipomoea alba, known in English as tropical white morning glory, moonflower or moonvine, is a species of night-blooming morning glory, native to tropical and subtropical regions of North and South America, from Argentina to northern Mexico, Arizona, Florida [3] and the West Indies. [4]