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Richard Evans Schultes

4 papers in the library · 60 citations · publishing 1978-1981

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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...

Ethnomedical, Botanical and Phytochemical Aspects of Natural Hallucinogens

Botanical Museum leaflets Harvard University June 1, 1980 Richard Evans Schultes, Norman R. Farnsworth 23 citations

More than 200 species and/or varieties of higher plants, as well as numerous species of basidiomycetes, are reported in the literature to have been used for their hallucinatory and/or euphoriant effects.Due to a paucity of research, only a few of these have been confirmed as definitely hallucinogenic in man or animals.This article reviews all of those plants now known to have a scientific basis...