Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita

Psychoactive natural products: overview of recent developments.

Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita 2014 István Ujváry 47 citations

Natural psychoactive substances have fascinated the curious mind of shamans, artists, scholars and laymen since antiquity. During the twentieth century, the chemical composition of the most important psychoactive drugs, that is opium, cannabis, coca and "magic mushrooms", has been fully elucidated. The mode of action of the principal ingredients has also been deciphered at the molecular level....