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An Arbitrary List of (Mostly) Safe & Effective Psychoactive Plants According to Teo

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Teotzlcoatl

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This file is intended to list all the effective psychoactive plants which are also known to be relatively safe. All the botanicals listed are either overtly psychoactive or have historical significance, or both. I’ve attempted to pinpoint the main species in order to keep it simple, but there may be related species in any given genera which have similar effects.




Entheogens (Botanicals which produce entheogenic or psychedelic effects)-


*Amanita muscaria {var. muscaria} ~ “Fly Agaric”
*Anadenanthera colubrine {var. cebil} & Anadenanthera peregrina {var. peregrina} ~ "Cebil" & “Yopo”
*Argyreia nervosa {var. nervosa} ~ "Hawaiian Baby Woodrose”
*Banisteriopsis caapi ~ “Ayahuasca”
*Diplopterys cabrerana ~ "Chaliponga" or "Oco-Yagè"
*Heimia salicifolia ~ "Sinicuichi" or "Sun Opener"
*Ipomoea tricolor & Ipomoea violacea ~ “Morning Glory”
*Lophophora williamsii ~ “Peyote”
*Mimosa tenuiflora (syn. hostilis) ~ "Jurema"
*Psilocybe species & Panaeolus species ~ “'Shrooms”
*Psychotria viridis ~ “Chacruna”
*Salvia divinorum ~ "Pipiltzintzintli" or “Diviner’s Sage”
*Tabernanthe iboga ~ “Iboga”
*Trichocereus (syn. Echinopsis) bridgesii, T. pachanoi & T. peruvianus ~ “San Pedro” & “Peruvian Torch”
*Turbina (syn. Rivea) corymbosa ~ “Ololiuqui”
*Virola calophylla & Virola theiodora ~ "Epena"



Psychoactives (Botanicals which produce intoxication, inebriation, stimulation or other mind altering effects)-


*Acorus calamus ~ "Sweet Flag"
*Areca catechu ~ "Betel Nut"
*Arctostaphylos uva-ursi ~ "Bearberry" or “Kinnikinnick”
*Argemone mexicana ~ "Prickly Poppy"
*Artemisia absinthium & Artemisia vulgaris ~ "Wormwood" & “Mugwort”
*Calea zacatechichi ~ “Thlepelakano” or "Bitter Grass"
*Camellia sinensis ~ “Tea”
*Canavalia maritima ~ "Baybean"
*Cannabis sativa ~ “Marijuana” or “Ganja”
*Catha edulis ~ "Khat"
*Coffea arabica ~ "Coffee"
*Cola acuminata & Cola nitida ~ "Cola Nut"
*Corydalis yanhusuo ~ "Yan-Hu-Suo" or "Fumewort"
*Cypripedium species ~ "Lady's Slipper Orchid"
*Duboisia hopwoodii ~ "Pituri"
*Ephedra sinica ~ "Ma Huang” or “Joint-Fir/Pine”
*Erythrina mulungu ~ "Mulungu"
*Erythroxylum coca {var. coca; var. ipadu} & Erythroxylum novagranatense {var. novogranatense; var. truxilloensis} ~ "Coca”
*Ilex guayusa, Ilex paraguariensis & Ilex vomitoria ~ “Guayusa”, "Yerba Mate" & “Yaupon”
*Lactuca virosa ~ "Opium Lettuce" or "Bitter/Wild Lettuce”
*Lagochilus inebrians ~ "Inebriating Mint"
*Leonotis leonotis & Leonotis leonurus ~ "Wild Dagga" or “Klip Dagga”
*Leonurus cardiaca & Leonurus sibiricus ~ "Motherwort" or "Honeyweed"
*Lobelia inflata ~ "Indian Tobacco"
*Mitragyna speciosa ~ "Kratom"
*Monotropa uniflora ~ "Indian Pipe" or "Ghost Pipe"
*Myristica fragrans ~ "Nutmeg"
*Nelumbo nucifera ~ “Indian Sacred Lotus”
*Nicotiana species ~ "Tobacco"
*Nymphaea caerulea ~ "Egyptian Blue Lily"
*Papaver somniferum ~ "Opium Poppy"
*Passiflora incarnata ~ "Passionflower"
*Paullinia cupana {var. sorbilis} ~ "Guaraná"
*Pausinystalia (syn. Corynanthe) yohimbe ~ "Yohimbe" or "Johimbe"
*Pedicularis canadensis, Pedicularis densiflora & Pedicularis groenlandica ~ "Lousewort"
*Peganum harmala ~ "Syrian Rue"
*Piper methysticum {var. methysticum} ~ "Kava-Kava"
*Sassafras albidum ~ "Sassafras"
*Sceletium tortuosum ~ "Kanna"
*Scutellaria lateriflora, Scutellaria nana, Scutellaria species ~ "Skullcap" or "Scullcap"
*Sida acuta & Sida rhombifolia ~ "Wireweed"
*Silene capensis (syn. undulata) ~ "Ubulawu" or “???”
*Tagetes lucida ~ "Mexican Tarragon"
*Theobroma cacao ~ "Cacao" or “Cocoa”
*Valeriana officinalis ~ "Valerian Root"
*Withania somnifera ~ "Ashwagandha"
*Zornia latifolia ~ "Maconha Brava"







Other Ethnobotanicals (Botanicals which do not have prominent inebriating/intoxicating effects, but have other intriguing uses. This includes some mild psychoactives, medicinals or other interesting and/or useful ethnobotanicals)

*Acmella (syn. Spilanthes) oleracea ~ "Toothache Plant" or “Paracress”
*Aloe vera ~ “Aloe”
*Althaea officinalis ~ "Marshmallow"
*Angelica archangelica ~ "Angelica"
*Aspalathus linearis ~ "Rooibos"
*Azadirachta indica ~ "Neem"
*Capsicum species ~ "Chilli Peppers"
*Cyclopia species ~ "Honeybush"
*Eleutherococcus senticosus ~ "Eleuthero Root"
*Eriodictyon californicum ~ "Yerba Santa"
*Eschscholzia californica ~ “California Poppy”
*Foeniculum vulgare ~ "Fennel"
*Ganoderma lucidum ~ "Reishi Mushroom"
*Gaultheria procumbens ~ "Wintergreen"
*Gingko biloba ~ "Gingko"
*Glaucium flavum ~ "Yellow Horned Poppy"
*Glycyrrhiza glabra ~ "Liquorice"
*Heliopsis longipes ~ "Gold Root"
*Humulus lupulus & Humulus japonicus ~ "Common Hop" & “Japanese Hop”
*Hypericum perforatum ~ “St. John’s Wort”
*Hyssopus officinalis ~ "Hyssop"
*Ligusticum porteri ~ "Osha"
*Manilkara chicle ~ “Chicle” or “Chewing Gum”
*Marrubium vulgare ~ "Horehound"
*Melissa officinalis ~ "Lemon Balm"
*Mentha species ~ "Mint"
*Nepeta cataria ~ "Catnip"
*Nigella sativa ~ "Blackseed"
*Panax ginseng ~ "Ginseng"
*Polygala sibirica & Polygala tenuifolia ~ “Milkwort”, “Taoist Snakeroot” or "Yuan Zhi"
*Polygonum multiform ~ “Fo-Ti”
*Rhodiola rosea ~ "Golden-Root" or "Rose-Root"
*Salix alba ~ "White Willow"
*Silybum marianum ~ "Milk Thistle"
*Synsepalum dulcificum ~ "Miracle Fruit"
*Turnera diffusa ~ "Damiana"
*Uncaria tomentosa ~ "Uña de Gato" or "Cat's Claw"
*Verbascum species ~ "Mullein"
*Verbena officinalis ~ "Vervain"


1) Does it come directly from natural sources? Is it a plant? Is it organic?
2) Does it have a long history of human usage? Has it been scientifically studied?
3) Does its history of human usage and scientific study show that it is relatively safe and non-toxic?
4) Has it been proven to be an effective psychoactive?
5) Has it been used by Westerns (Americans, Europeans, etc.)?
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Nice, thanks for this. :) It would nice to also at some point provide short descriptions of the effects of each, or link to sources for this information.
 
Nice one T.
Looks like you spent a good amount of time on producing this list....which has now become my TO-DO list!! :)(-:
 
nice list OP, but Amanita Muscaria is not fully safe.

if not prepared in the right way it can be poisonous!
 
I guess I should just put "Trichocereus species".

Looks like you spent a good amount of time on producing this list....which has now become my TO-DO list!! :)(-:
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I've spend years working on this list... this is the latest version.

This list basically covers every single psychoactive plant-drug worth ingesting (except some dangerous ones like Datura and such, which I considered unsafe).

nice list OP, but Amanita Muscaria is not fully safe.
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I partially agree, but I feel it is so historically and culturally important on such a vast scale that not including it would be an ethnobotanical injustice!

Iboga can also be dangerous, but again, it's so powerful and healing, how could I not include it?




Nice, thanks for this. It would nice to also at some point provide short descriptions of the effects of each, or link to sources for this information.
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That is what my book is on... so no, you only get species names here... you will have to buy the book :)
 
^true about the injustice, but maybe we should work on this list together and expand it into a sticky? (mods?)

like, we could have the effects profile for each, along with how to prepare each for ingestion (safe).

and whens the book out and can i get it on amazon? (fitting place for it considering the name of the website and that a lot of these species are found
in the amazon)
 
Or at least a community project if not a sticky (as we have a lot of stickies). I like the idea. Let's see for now how many people we can get posting their experiences/summaries of whatever plants they've tried (or new ones if you think some should be added). While Bluelight and PD do not and should not focus exclusively on plant entheogens, the plants certainly should be just as represented as anything else. We're a place to gather information. :)

So if you have things to say about any of these plants, please do post and contribute. :)
 
Maybe not a sticky but how about a link on the first page of the B+D Ethnobotanical thread, or a spot in the PD index?
 
and whens the book out and can i get it on amazon? (fitting place for it considering the name of the website and that a lot of these species are found
in the amazon)
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Not for awhile.

I suggest you obtain Snu Voogelbreinder's "Garden of Eden", or Ott's "Pharmacopeia" or Christian Rätsch's "Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants".

Snu Voogelbreinder's book is the most up to date.


Just google "snu garden of eden" for more info

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&t...=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=b922806320020c3c
 
^Thanks for the list, Teotzlcoatl. I only have experience with the common ones from the list but I'll recount the effects of amanita muscaria because it's kind of funny.

I ate 5 grams with a friend, and after 3 hours we still weren't feeling anything, so we ate another 5 grams each. Of course I started feeling the first 5 grams a few minutes after finishing the second. It felt pretty good for the most part, then turned sort of neutral when I started getting delirious. We had rented "Three Kings" on VHS -- this was a while back -- and I put the tape in the VCR. I returned to the couch and looked at the remote confused. I asked my friend where the tape went, and he told me I had just put it in the VCR. I looked at the remote and felt confused again. I ended up asking him four more times whether I had put the tape in because I had a serious case of anterograde amnesia. I also commented that on any other drug if I felt as fucked up as I did on amanita muscaria I'd be scared, but that I felt fairly non-nonchalant despite it. I remember pacing back and forth in my parent's basement later alone because I felt so blown that I thought I'd fall unconscious if I sat down.

My friend never felt any effects while I was with him, but the next day he commented that he remembered walking into his room and seeing the time on the clock after he got back to his parent's house, and the next memory he had was of waking up.
 
Sage (salvia officinalis).

There's some reports on erowid, and I can personally attest to a nice body high from smoking dried sage.
 
This is probably one of your best post that i have seen....

Most of the rest have just been about your supriority complex about how your better than everyone else for being so natural....
 
Now, now, to need to instigate anything while it's going nicely. (I'll delete this post in 10 minutes if you delete yours).
 
Delete my post? Huh... um... hell no? What are you talking about?

Most of the rest have just been about your supriority complex about how your better than everyone else for being so natural....
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I am superior.

BTW you spelled "superiority" wrong.

Sage (salvia officinalis).
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I have included and excluded that one over and over again but finally decided to try and pick just 1 plant for each genus in the end (Salvia divinorum was the one I choose).
 
^By "I'll delete this post in 10 minutes ..." I meant I'd delete my post that says "I'll delete this post in 10 minutes ..." The point being that you were not logged in so if both of us deleted our posts you would never have known he made the "superiority complex" comment and, just maybe, you would continue your helpful and productive posts and refrain from being belligerent. As it turns out, it didn't work out.
 
I just went to Peru and looked at Coca in it's native culture. In no way shape or form is it damaging, unlike the cocaine which is extracted from it.

Opium Poppy was included even tho it is addictive, it is VERY effective :) and consider relatively safe.
 
^ The amounts of cocaine found in the leaves are minimal when compared to an extracted product. I'm sure the damage potential from eating a kilo of leaves would be on par with ingesting a gram of cocaine.
 
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