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is there a site which lists the alkaloid content of certain plants?

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title says it all, i cant think of any. wiki is a good start but they often list only for example root bark content where im looking for whole plant alkaloid content...
im looking especially for the following plants:

-Eschscholzia californica
-Voacanga africana
-Erythroxylum Catuaba
-Areca catechu
-Peganum harmala
-Banisteriopsis caapi
-Heimia salicifolia
-Pausinystalia yohimbe
-Nymphaea caerulea
-Sceletium tortuosum
-Passiflora incarnata

thanks.
 
Erowid has the golden guide to hallucinogenic plants in their online library. Might not have them all but should list some of the major alkaloids.
 
L'atropine For passiflore and if nymphe is blue Lotus or lotus fam pbbly apomorphine and other morphinans m. Dont mix
 
You can read it online, in English, here (it's not downloadable as a PDF but no reason to not be able to take screenshots of the relevant pages and/or download to a portable device using their app. to read offline):

www.scribd.com

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants by Christian Rätsch, Albert Hofmann (Ebook) - Read free for 30 days

The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants • Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances • Explores how using psychoactive plants in a culturally sanctioned context can produce important insights into the...
www.scribd.com www.scribd.com

Scribd really is an absolute WEALTH of information just by the way. And there's no catch when it comes to their 30-day free trial either by the way i.e. it is what it says on the tin I assure you (very refreshing in this day and age actually).

Look hard enough though and it's bound to be a free download in PDF format somewhere. Of that you can be sure.

I've always managed to satisfy my other, more specific, organic requirements using the following (not an exhaustive list by any means though but a good start) (especially JSTOR and who are making an effort to aid students, during these trying times, by providing free access to 100 articles per month):

about.jstor.org

Home - About JSTOR

JSTOR helps you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform.
about.jstor.org about.jstor.org

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

National Center for Biotechnology Information

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
www.academia.edu www.academia.edu


Then there's this but not free (although some are made available through JSTOR above):

Journals | Oxford Academic

academic.oup.com academic.oup.com

An example:

Annals of Botany | Oxford Academic

An official journal of the Annals of Botany Company. Publishes original research in all areas of plant science, including those applying molecular, analytical,
academic.oup.com academic.oup.com


Not quite what you're looking for i.e. a single site as per the thread title. But nothing comes easy I'm afraid! :)

Also not saying that you're going to find exactly what you're looking for but worth a shot i.e. my scope and field of interest by far narrower than yours! ;)
 
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izo said:
wow, thanks.
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It's my pleasure.

I found the below while browsing through recommendations that are periodically (latest received today oddly enough) sent out from Academia (one of the sites mentioned in my previous post). I've not read through it. But who knows: maybe of interest to you and/or others?

Hallucinogenic Plants A Golden Guide


Just a word about Academia though:

There's many papers published by grad. students etc. Point is: they're not authorities on the various topics in some cases. The papers have been uploaded for peer review etc. However. They will almost always cite references and sometimes you will find what you're looking for in the references as opposed to in the main paper.

Also nice to give the student a bit of punt when prompted to do so (after downloading their paper).


Here's one I included just for fun (heartwarming to see that somebody deems Cocaine one of the 100 most important chemical compounds! 🤣 ):

The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds


Note that both of the above are published books and not papers.

But there's an absolute pile of papers and publications and books etc. on plant/organic alkaloids etc. (the site keeps prompting you with suggestions as you go along).

Also note I downloaded them and then uploaded them to a temporary site hence the links not going to Academia (so no need to panic i.e. those that have not signed up on Academia would not have access to them so I'd be wasting my time and their's by simply providing a direct link to Academia).
 
dalpat077 said:
It's my pleasure.

I found the below while browsing through recommendations that are periodically (latest received today oddly enough) sent out from Academia (one of the sites mentioned in my previous post). I've not read through it. But who knows: maybe of interest to you and/or others?

Hallucinogenic Plants A Golden Guide


Just a word about Academia though:

There's many papers published by grad. students etc. Point is: they're not authorities on the various topics in some cases. The papers have been uploaded for peer review etc. However. They will almost always cite references and sometimes you will find what you're looking for in the references as opposed to in the main paper.

Also nice to give the student a bit of punt when prompted to do so (after downloading their paper).


Here's one I included just for fun (heartwarming to see that somebody deems Cocaine one of the 100 most important chemical compounds! 🤣 ):

The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds


Note that both of the above are published books and not papers.

But there's an absolute pile of papers and publications and books etc. on plant/organic alkaloids etc. (the site keeps prompting you with suggestions as you go along).

Also note I downloaded them and then uploaded them to a temporary site hence the links not going to Academia (so no need to panic i.e. those that have not signed up on Academia would not have access to them so I'd be wasting my time and their's by simply providing a direct link to Academia).
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Cocaine was thought of as the most important chemical discovery of the past century, as of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Pretty noteworthy source, too.
 
im especially curious about this one; Eschscholzia californica
in Europe they use it for anxiety and it works great! not popular in the US. probably because no business supports it as usual neglecting important drug for various maladies.
 
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