Bufo toads and bufotenine: fact and fiction surrounding an alleged psychedelic.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1996 T Lyttle, D Goldstein, J Gartz 84 citations
This paper investigates the supposedly psychedelic Bufo toad and the allegedly psychedelic drug bufotenine, which is contained in the skin and glands of this toad. The bufo toad has held a place in human mythologies and medicines worldwide since archaic times. Used by ancient peoples for a variety of purposes, its most spectacular effects, according to lore, involve magical and shamanic or...