Occurrence and use of hallucinogenic mushrooms containing psilocybin alkaloids
TemaNord May 19, 2009 Christer M. 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...