BI266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hyoscyamine, Brugmansia, Atropine
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Ancient Geography of Most Important Ancient Hallucinogenic Plants
• All cultures have developed methods for inducing such altered states of consciousness using
hallucinogenic plants
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Scared Ritual vs Fun
How many halluciongenic plants exist?
• We do’t know exactly!
• We know a few thousand sp., however, probably there are more
FACT: The dose may make a plant medicinal, hallucinogenic or poisonous
Hallucinogenic plants from Salonaceae
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Psychoactive Solanaceae in Europe and Asia
• Psychoactive Solanaceae in Europe and Asia have a campanulate corolla; the fruit is more
commonly a berry (only Hyosciamus has a capsule)
Belladona: medicinal, psychotropic, and poison
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