Anales de Antropología
May 14, 2025
Gastón Guzmán
17 citations
El uso tradicional en el pasado de Amanita muscaria en Siberia, América y Europa Medieval es considerado, además del Psilocybe semilanceata en Europa medieval y el “ergot” en la época griega. Se discuten también petroglifos micológicos de Siberia y murales prehistóricos del Sahara y España. Las tradiciones y confusiones de las especies de Psilocybe en América prehispánica son revisadas. ¿Qué es...
International journal of medicinal mushrooms
2016
Yvonne Sommerkamp, Ana Margarita Paz, Gastón Guzmán
Guatemala, located in Central America, has a long and rich history in the traditional use of edible, medicinal, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. This article describes the use of these mushrooms and presents studies on the scientific validation of native and foreign species.
International journal of medicinal mushrooms
2015
Gastón Guzmán
This paper is a review of the new studies or new explanations of the hallucinogenic mushrooms, regarding their diversity, history, traditions, and problems in their recreational use, new taxonomic studies, and their modern applications in medicine, all of them since the 1970s to the present.
Botany
September 1, 2013
Virginia Ramírez-Cruz, Gastón Guzmán, Alma Rosa Villalobos-Arámbula et al.
The genus Psilocybe contains iconic species of fungi renowned for their hallucinogenic properties. Recently, Psilocybe also included non-hallucinogenic species that have since been shifted to the genus Deconica. Here, we reconstruct a multigene phylogeny for Psilocybe, Deconica, and other exemplars of the families Hymenogastraceae and Strophariaceae sensu stricto (s. str.), using three nuclear...
International journal of medicinal mushrooms
2013
Gastón Guzmán, Alonso Cortes-Perez, Florencia Ramirez-Guillen
The subtropical Japanese bluing mushroom Psilocybe subcaerulipes, described by Hongo, has several synonyms: P. argentipes by Yokoyama (also from Japan), P. taiwanensis by Guzman and Yang (from Taiwan), and P. thaizapoteca by Guzman, Ramirez-Guillen, and Karunaratna (from Thailand). The study of the holotypes and others specimens of these mushrooms shows that they have basidiospores,...
Economic Botany
November 1, 2008
Gastón Guzmán
114 citations
Hongos Alucinógenos en México: Historia, Taxonomia, Distribución Geográfica y Uso Tradicional . Psilocybe , con 53 especies alucinógenas conocidas en México, es el grupo más importante y más diverso de hongos sagrados usados por las culturas indígenas mexicanas. Se propone aquí que Psilocybe caerulescens , nombrado por los nahuatls de hoy día teotlaquilnanácatl , es el hongo ceremonial...