Occurrence and use of hallucinogenic mushrooms containing psilocybin alkaloids
TemaNord May 19, 2009 Christer Andersson, Jørn Gry, Jakob Kristinsson 42 citations
In some parts of the world mushrooms have had a central role in religious ritual ceremonies. Ethnomycological studies among the Indian tribes of Mexico - the Aztecs and the Chichimecas - revealed the mushrooms to be hallucinogenic. Chemists from a leading Pharmaceutical company took over, isolated and described the mushroom alkaloid psilocybin, that upon dephosphorylation after collection of...