Ayahuasca: alkaloids, plants & analogs
Section 1: Ayahuasca alkaloids: the main β-carboline components
- Harmine
- Harmaline
- Tetrahydroharmine
- The Hasenfratz Method of Harmine/Harmaline Isolation
- Separating harmine from harmaline
- Other simple approaches to recover and purify the harmala alkaloids
- Dosages
- Thin-Layer Chromatography
- Liquid Chromatography
- Electrophoretic approaches
- Comment on 6-Methoxyharmalan
- Harmala alkaloid interconversions
- Trivia on the main 1-Methyl-b-carbolines found in Hoasca Brews
- O'Connell & Lynn 1953 Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 42 (12): 753-754
- Harmala alkaloid pharmacology
- Differences in the metabolism of harmine and harmaline (primarily in rodents)
- Modern study of long-time ayahuasca users
- Ayahuasca alkaloids; Reported ratios
- Ayahuasca Preparations and Recipes
- Some reported analysis of modern Ayahuasca brews
Section 2: Ayahuasca: MAOI source plants
- Ayahuasca: The reported MAOI source plants
- Banisteriopsis caapi
- A few of the reported analytical accounts for Banisteriopsis
- Prestonia amazonica: The Beginnings of some Modern Confusion
- Earliest botanical description of some of the other species reportedly used in brewing ayahuasca
- A brief summary of the Malpighiaceous plants reported as MAOI source plants for ayahuasca
- Ayahuasca Analog MAOI source plants: Reported effective species
- Peganum harmala
- Some members of the Zygophyllaceae in need of analytical work Ayahuasca-Caapi-Yajé: Common names, varieties, other plants referred to with similar words and a few associated terms.
Section 3: Ayahuasca admixtures & analogs
- Part 1: Some common & effective ayahuasca admixtures
- Comments on the commercially available admixtures
- Acacia in ayahuasca analogs
- Acacia species with successful human bioassays reported
- Potentially effective South Pacific Acacia species lacking human bioassay reports
- Desmanthus species
- Jurema (Jurema prêta): Mimosa hostilis (= Mimosa tenuiflora)
- Phalaris; Some points of interest and some points of confusion
- Several plants suggested by the literature about which less is known concerning their safety
- Anadenanthera species
- A look at the Myristicaceae.
- Ayahuasca and ayahuasca analog admixtures; By species.
- Ayahuasca admixtures (listing by family)
- Common names and some associated words. (Including jurema admixtures and the genus Mimosa) A lexicon including some words associated with these & other hallucinogenic brews
- A simple tabulation of common names; organized by species.
Part 2: Some reported effective ayahuasca analog admixtures
Part 3: Reported or suspected admixtures and other plants associated with ayahuasca and ayahuasca analogs.
Section 4: Ayahuasca analogs; Theory & practice
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