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Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) [3] is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Native to Europe, it has been introduced to the Americas and Australia.
Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for medicinal, religious, and/or recreational purposes. Some have been used ritually as entheogens for millennia. [1] [2] The plants are listed according to the specific psychoactive chemical substances they contain; many contain multiple known psychoactive compounds.
Chicory is described in the article as an "appetite stimulant", suggesting that it increases appetite. But the word "stimulant" links to the article about stimulant drugs, which are appetite suppressants. This is nonsense and needs clarification.
[4] [2] The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory or endive, plus several wild species. [5] Flower of common chicory (Cichorium intybus) Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a bushy perennial herb with blue or lavender (or, rarely, white or pink) flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and ...
This is a list of psychoactive plants, fungi, and animals. Plants ... Mild stimulant and vasoconstrictor plants that contain mainly caffeine and theobromine:
Endive (/ ˈ ɛ n d aɪ v,-d ɪ v, ˈ ɑː n d iː v /) [3] is a leaf vegetable belonging to the genus Cichorium, which includes several similar bitter-leafed vegetables.Species include Cichorium endivia (also called endive), Cichorium pumilum (also called wild endive), and Cichorium intybus (also called chicory).
Psychoactive plants are plants that people ingest in the form of simple or complex preparations in order to affect the mind or alter the state of consciousness. [1] Psychoactivity may include sedative, stimulant, euphoric, deliriant, and hallucinogenic effects. Several hundred psychoactive plants are known. [1]
The Cichorioideae are a subfamily of the family Asteraceae of flowering plants. Familiar members of Cichorioideae include lettuce, dandelions, chicory and Gazania species. The subfamily comprises about 240 genera and about 2900 species. It is heterogeneous and hard to characterize except with molecular characters.