Psychoactive Amanitas
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| 1730 |
| Swedish Colonel Filip Johann von Strahlenberg, who spent 12 years in Siberia as a prisoner of war, gives detailed descriptions of Siberians consuming tea made from A. muscaria and drinking the urine of those who have ingested the mushroom to recycle its psychoactive ingredients.
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von Strahlenberg wrote a book titled "An Historico-Geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia" which include:
"The Russians who trade with them [Koryak - a tribe on the Kamchatka peninsula], carry thither a Kind of Mushrooms, called in the Russian Tongue, Muchumor, which they exchange for Squirils, Fox, Hermin, Sable, and other Furs: Those who are rich among them, lay up large Provisions of these Mushrooms, for the Winter. When they make feast, they pour water upon some of these Mushrooms and boil them. They then drink the Liquor, which intoxicates them; The poorer Sort who cannot afford to lay in a Store of these Mushrooms, post themselves on these occasions, round the huts of the rich and watch the opportunity of the guests comind down to make water. And then hold a wooden bowl to receive the urine which they drink off greedily, as having still some virtue of the mushroom in it and by this way they also get drunk." |
| References Wasson RG. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. |
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