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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 .
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]
Human nervous system – the part of the human body that coordinates a person's voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of the body. The human nervous system consists of two main parts: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS contains the brain and spinal cord.
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The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, [1] is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.It is the largest site of neural integration in the central nervous system, [2] and plays a key role in attention, perception, awareness, thought, memory, language, and consciousness.
Proprioception – sense of the relative position of the parts of the body; Nociception – signals pain in response to nerve-damage or damage to tissue; Equilibrioception – sense of body movement, direction, acceleration, and balance Vestibular nerve (part of cranial nerve 8) – the main equilibrioception-related cranial nerve