Hallucinogens: Deliriants Flashcards
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Hallucinogens: Deliriants
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- Anticholinergics-block the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in central and peripheral nervous system
- Peripheral muscular activity
- Strong delirium effect-stupor, confusion, and reversible identity, amnesia
- Little control over their actions, oblivious to pain, minimal or distorted recollections of the experience
- Symptoms-disrobing, conversing with non-existent persons, inability to recognized oneself in the mirror
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Solanaceous Plants
BOTANICAL INFORMATION:
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- Central and South America
- Tomato, capsicum pepper, potato, tobacco
- All native to Americas
- Poisonous
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Solanaceous Plants
PLANT UTILIZATION:
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- Paganism, devil-worship, witchcraft
- Entheogens for divination and ritualistic purposes
- Alkaloids-anticholinergic agents
- Block acetylcholine receptors, depressing transmissions across nerve synapses in the medulla’s arousal centers
- Hyoscine, Atropine, Hyoscyamine
- Antispasmodic to treat motion sickness, pre-operative sedative, reduces secretions, produces amnesia, alleviates the side effects of anaesthesics
- Sedatives, anesthetics, Parkinson’s disease
- Central nervous system depression, stimulation
- Blurred vision, suppressed salivation, excitement, drowsiness, fatigue, euphoria, amnesia, delirium, loss of attention
- Perceptual distortion, hallucinations, dream-like and visual-auditory stimuli, sensation of flying, visitations to far-away places
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Henbane and Belladonna
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- European solanaceous are poisonous and associated with Medieval witchcraft
- Ingredients in brews and ointments in witchcraft and sorcery
- “Witches brews” herbal concoctions mixed with animal fats
- Rubbed their skin and orifices with these ointments, animal fats increased the absorption
- “Flying ointment”-contained belladonna, henbane, and datura, produce a hallucinogenic
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Mandrake
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- Mandragora
- Superstitions and ceremonies
- Ability to kill unless it was handled with great care-root was pulled out and emits a piercing shriek
- Human-like form of mature mandrake roots
- Alraune puppet cult-fetishes or talismans to bring their owners good fortune
- Divine secrets, cure sterility, gain the affection of others
- Good fortune and protection from evil spirits, associated with witchcraft and the underworld
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Datura
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- Divination and shamanistic purposes
- Entheogen-Aztecs, Mayans, Central Americans
- Medicinal and intoxicant
- Jimson weed-hallucinogen in Aftrica
- Medicinally in North America
- Unpleasant and potentially life-threatening
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Brugmansia
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- Hallucinogens in South America
- Native to Andean and Amazonian South America
- Divination-mixture with ayahuasca
- Alkaloids
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Pituri
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- Native to Australia
- Sacred plant-culturally important component of social structure
- Hyoscine and alkaloids
- Mildly hallucinogenic
