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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 ...
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.
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.
Many cacti are known to be psychoactive, containing phenethylamine alkaloids such as mescaline. [1] However, the two main ritualistic (folkloric) genera are Echinopsis, of which the most psychoactive species occur in the San Pedro cactus group (including Echinopsis pachanoi, syn. Trichocereus pachanoi, Echinopsis Peruviana, syn. Trichocereus peruvianus and Echinopsis lageniformis, syn ...
All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of anticholinergic tropane alkaloids and may be fatal if ingested by humans, livestock, or pets. In some places, it is prohibited to buy, sell or cultivate Datura plants. [8] Unlike other types of datura, the roots are considered the most potent and alkaloid-rich part of this species.
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 .
"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.
Ayahuasca [note 1] is a South American psychoactive beverage, traditionally used by Indigenous cultures and folk healers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins for spiritual ceremonies, divination, and healing a variety of psychosomatic complaints.