Biomedical Chromatography

Identification of N,N‐dimethyltryptamine and β‐carbolines in psychotropic ayahuasca beverage

Biomedical Chromatography May 27, 2008 Cristiana Gambelunghe, Kyriaki Aroni, Riccardo Rossi et al. 52 citations

Abstract Recently many people have shown great interest in traditional indigenous practices and popular medicine, involving the ingestion of natural psychotropic drugs. We received a request to analyze and determine the nature of a dark green liquid with a dark brown plant sediment, which the police had seized at an airport and inside the home of a person belonging to the ‘Santo Daime’...