Planta MedicaDecember 14, 2016Sylvian Cretton, PM Allard, I Garcia-Gomez et al.
Indigenous groups of the Amazonian rainforest have used a vast array of poisons and psychoactive drugs from plant origin for centuries. There is a great variety of different species used and each group has their own recipes to prepare plant mixtures [1]. Arrow poisons are made of alkaloids extracted mainly from the Menispermaceae ( Chondrodendron spp.), as well as the Loganiaceae ( Strychnos...