Indole Alkaloids in Amazonian Myristicaceae: Field And Laboratory Research
Botanical Museum leaflets Harvard University September 1, 1980 Bo Holmstedt, J.‐e. Lindgren, Timothy Plowman et al. 31 citations
Indians of the Amazon-especially of the northwest Amazon -and of adjacent parts of the Orinoco have employed various species of the myristicaceous genus Virola for many years as the bases of hallucinogenic preparations.A resin-like liquid of the inner bark of the trees is elaborated into an intoxicating snuff and is prepared in pellets for oral consumption; it is even on occasion ingested raw...