Alucinógenos naturais: um voo da Europa Medieval ao Brasil Natural hallucinogens: a flight from Medieval Europe to Brazil

Abstract

This work describes the historical importance and the use of hallucinogenic plants by different civilizations. A comparison between three Brazilian plants whose active principle is N,N-dimethyltriptamine (DMT), and three plant species native to Europe whose active principles are tropanic alkaloids was carried out and we observed these plants promoted different types of hallucinations.

Keywords

• hallucinogenic plants
• Solanaceae
• alkaloids