Brief introduction of hallucinogenic plants

Refers to plants that can make people or animals hallucinate after eating. Specifically, it refers to some plants, because their bodies contain some toxic components, such as nudiflorin and tetrahydrocannabinol. When people or animals eat this kind of plants, they will cause nerve or blood poisoning. After poisoning, there are various manifestations: some are insane, some are changeable in mood, some have various hallucinations in their minds, and often take truth as false and dreams seriously, thus making many abnormal behaviors.

There is a kind of mushroom called Mexican gymnosperms, which contains gymnosperms in its body. After eating by mistake, people's muscles relax and their pupils dilate. Soon, they will have emotional disorders and feel isolated from their surroundings. It seems that they have entered a dream, but they are still awake from the outside, so what they do is often puzzling.

After taking Harmonia, people will have strange hallucinations in their eyes, all the images will be enlarged, and an ordinary person will suddenly become a huge monster. It is said that if cats eat this kind of bacteria by mistake, they will be afraid that mice will suddenly become huge and lose the courage to hunt mice. This phenomenon is called optical illusion in medicine. The hallucinogenic effect of brown scale ash is another case. There will be all kinds of freaks in front of users: either slender or ugly. Soon, users will lose consciousness and fall asleep. Users of spore bacteria will lose the concept of time, have colorful hallucinations in front of them, and sometimes feel the green fog around them, which makes people dizzy; Sometimes I feel trapped in a sea of fire, and strange light shines.

Hai Mu, an American scholar, once found a record of magical mushrooms in the ancient Mayan civilization in Mexico. Later, people found stone carvings worshiping mushrooms in Mayan ruins in Guatemala. It turns out that as early as 3,000 years ago, the Mayans living in the jungles of South America had a mysterious reverence for this mushroom with special hallucinogenic effect, thinking that it was a sacred object that could lead people's souls to heaven and had infinite magic power, and respectfully called it the flesh of God.

Many foreign scientists have studied this magical mushroom one after another. They found that in ancient times when science was not prosperous, some ethnic minorities in Peru, India, Guinea, Siberia and Europe often used the charm of magic mushrooms to add mystery to religious ceremonies. It should be noted that this superstitious thing is still used by some people today as a cover for them to defraud people of money, which is very sad!

Besides mushrooms, marijuana has magical effects. Hemp is a useful fiber plant, but it contains tetrahydrocannabinol, a toxin. Eating too much will make people's blood pressure rise, the whole body tremble, and gradually fall asleep. For another example, there is a cactus plant called Wu Yufei in the greenhouse of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, which contains an alkaloid-moscalin. People will enter a dreamlike state after eating it 1 ~ 2 hours. Usually manifested as dumbfounding and moody. This plant is native to South America. Because the symptoms caused by hallucinogenic plants are quite similar to those of some mental patients, pharmacologists have gained new enlightenment: if the hallucinogenic plant extracts are used to artificially cause certain symptoms in experimental animals, it will be a great gain to provide effective data for studying the pathology, etiology and exploring new treatment methods of mental diseases.

It is said that Mexican magicians have an extraordinary set of tricks. He can guide people's souls into "heaven" and make a fascinating trip. After he gave his subjects a small bag of "magic medicine", in a short time, all kinds of strange sights appeared in front of him: unpredictable lakes and mountains, colorful buildings, strange pearl treasures and indescribable birds and animals.

For a long time, people could not know the mystery of the powder used by Mexican magicians. Until the end of 19, botanists solved the mystery through continuous research and exploration. It turns out that the magician's magic powder is made of a local Agaricus mushroom named Lentinus edodes. According to the analysis of chemists, the components that make people hallucinate are "gymnosperm essence" and "gymnosperm". In fact, as early as 3000 years ago, Indians living in the jungles of South America discovered the magical function of this mushroom and worshipped it, calling it "the flesh of God". Whenever a religious ceremony is held, this mushroom will be soaked in wine and given to people who participate in sacrificial activities, so as to enjoy the fun of traveling in "heaven".

There is also a kind of Cuban naked mushroom, which can also be made into a magic medicine. After taking it, people's pupils dilate, their heart beats slowly, and they tremble and sweat all over. 15 minutes later, they fall asleep. Some people show great pleasure and dance wildly; Some people show depression, irritability and impermanence; Some people even kill or commit suicide, unable to control themselves.

In India, there is a mushroom with a gorgeous mushroom cover called Toxofenadine, which contains a hallucinogenic ingredient. After eating for a quarter of an hour, people will enter a state of hallucination, tremble all over, and often make some hilarious antics. Everything he saw was magnified. In his eyes, ordinary people have become indomitable giants, making them feel frightened and scared. Some people are crazy until they are extremely tired. Interestingly, according to some experiments, if a cat eats this mushroom, it will be afraid to catch it because it is too big for a mouse. Therefore, in medicine, this symptom is called "hyperopia".

Boletus and Boletus parviflora grown in mountainous areas of Yunnan Province in China have the opposite effect to the poisonous fly umbrella, and people can have "hallucinations" after eating it. When people enter the hallucination state, they will see some little people less than a foot tall around them. Dressed in red and green, they raised their swords and guns, jumped up and down, and sometimes flocked from all directions to besiege patients. Sometimes he floats away and escapes without a trace. When eating, these little people compete for food and drink; When walking, some little people cling to their legs and feet, and some little people climb to the top of their heads, causing patients to be in extreme fear.

There is a mushroom called shitai growing on the dunghill in northern China. People will dance and laugh wildly after eating by mistake, so they are called "dancing bacteria" or "laughing bacteria" This kind of bacteria has been recorded in ancient books in China. "Qing Louis" said: "There is a kind of bacteria. People who eat laugh, and scholars call it' laughing hands'. " In Japanese ancient books, there is also a story about "dancing bacteria": several lost woodcutter saw a group of nuns dancing in a very funny posture; Suddenly, I saw some cooked mushrooms on the roadside. They had a good meal because they were all hungry. As a result, they involuntarily joined the disorderly dance, and it took several hours to wake up.

In addition to fungal plants, there is also a leguminous plant in Brazil, which contains bufotalin and also has magical effects. Locals often crush it into snuff, which will soon lose consciousness after smelling it; When I regained consciousness, I felt weak in my limbs, and everything I saw and the scenery were reversed, resulting in all kinds of absurd and bizarre hallucinations.

There is a plant in the north of South America, which contains Halpern or similar toxic ingredients, and wizards use it to make a "magic medicine" for superstitious divination; Local residents often use it to make narcotic drinks. After eating, people can feel happy, or they can have perceptual obstacles and their skin is not sensitive. In hallucinations, I feel the scenery around me moving in waves. When I close my eyes and daydream, there will be all kinds of floating magical scenes in front of me, but I am convinced of this.

Hemp is a fiber plant, which contains tetrahydroanesthetic and can be used as anesthetic. If taken in a small amount, it has an exciting effect; If the dosage is too much, it will also have a magical effect. At first, pupils dilate, blood pressure rises, and there is dyskinesia, and then they enter a dreamy state.

The fleshy stems of some cactus plants contain an alkaloid called muscarine. As long as a small amount is taken orally, it can make people sick, tremble and sweat. After 65,438+0-2 hours, they will enter a dreamy state and often make many hilarious actions or absurd things.

The main components of Datura stramonium are anisodamine, atropine and scopolamine. The above components have the functions of exciting the central nervous system, blocking the M- choline reaction system, antagonizing and paralyzing the parasympathetic nerve. The main clinical manifestations are dry mouth and throat, dysphagia, hoarseness, rapid pulse, dilated pupils, delirium hallucinations and convulsions.

Hallucinogenic plants used to be used by wizards and magicians to engage in superstitious activities to deceive people, which made many people feel mysterious and admired. However, with the progress of human beings and the development of science, people have gradually figured out its effective chemical composition and mechanism of action. It has become an important part of the treasure house of medicinal plants and plays an active role in treating neuropathy.