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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.
Flavonoids (contained in many medicinal plants) [5] Vitamin P, citrin Flavonoids, bioflavonoids Hemolytic anemia, kidney damage [5] Germander: Teucrium: Liver damage [3] [5] Ginger: Zingiber officinale: May increase the risk of bleeding [16] Ginkgo: gingko Ginkgo biloba: Bleeding [15] [16] American Ginseng
Mild stimulant and vasoconstrictor plants that contain mainly caffeine and theobromine: Coffee; Tea (also contains theanine) Guarana; Yerba Mate; Cocoa; Kola; Anadenanthera colubrina produces beans used for cebil Areca palms in Ponda, India. Other plants: Mimosa hostilis: DMT; Chacruna: DMT, NMT; Cebil and Yopo: DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin ...
The plant grows to well over 1 metre (3 ft) in height, [1] on hollow square stems which tend to break or trail on the ground, with the plant rooting quite readily at the nodes and internodes. [ 34 ] The flowers, which bloom only rarely, grow in whorls on a 30-centimetre (12 in) inflorescence , with about six flowers to each whorl.
"Lettuce opium" was used by the ancient Egyptians, and was introduced as a drug in the United States as early as 1799. [3] The drug was prescribed and studied extensively in Poland during the nineteenth century, [citation needed] and was viewed as an alternative to opium, weaker but lacking side-effects, such as not being highly addictive, [3] and in some cases preferable.
The bees produce mad honey in the spring when plants from the family Ericaceae, such as rhododendrons are in bloom. [15] Apis laboriosa nests consist of single, open combs with large bases reaching 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). The hives are built on tree limbs or steep, southeast or southwest-facing rocky cliffsides, at elevations of 1,200–4,000 m ...
Take 4- to 6-inch cuttings from healthy, established plants in late spring or early summer. Cut immediately below a bud. Dip the cut end in rooting hormone and plant in a container filled with ...
Psychoactive plants are plants, or preparations thereof, that upon ingestion induce psychotropic effects. As stated in a reference work: As stated in a reference work: 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 .