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Caleicine is a strong candidate to be responsible the effects of Calea ternifolia as the GABA modulation Eugenol exhibits are the same that of Calea ternifolia. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Calea ternifolias negative side effects, nausea , vomiting and delirium based hallucinations , [ 7 ] are the same that of Eugenol [ 6 ] and other GABAergic compounds.
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 .
Calea zacatechichi. Produces vivid dreams after smoking. It is also employed by the Chontal people as a medicinal herb against gastrointestinal disorders, and is used as an appetizer, cathartic anti-dysentery remedy, and as a fever-reducing agent. Its psychedelic properties do not become apparent until the user is asleep.
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 ...
PET image of the human brain showing energy consumption. The brain consumes up to 20% of the energy used by the human body, more than any other organ. [131] In humans, blood glucose is the primary source of energy for most cells and is critical for normal function in a number of tissues, including the brain. [132]
Well, according to Wise, the brain is actually the most powerful sex organ there is—namely because genital stimulation produces so much muscle and nerve information that a tremendous boost in ...
Vernacular name Species Phytochemical(s) Substance effect class Regions/Cultures of use Bullet ant venom : Paraponera clavata: Secretion: Poneratoxin Deliriant: The Satere-Mawe people use bullet ants to get extremely painful stings in their initiation rites twenty times.
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.