Nashmiah Aid Alrashedy

The ethnobotany of psychoactive plant use: a phylogenetic perspective

PeerJ January 19, 2017 Nashmiah Aid Alrashedy, Jeanmaire Molina 39 citations

Psychoactive plants contain chemicals that presumably evolved as allelochemicals but target certain neuronal receptors when consumed by humans, altering perception, emotion and cognition. These plants have been used since ancient times as medicines and in the context of religious rituals for their various psychoactive effects (e.g., as hallucinogens, stimulants, sedatives). The ubiquity of...