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Deep research and collection of natural psychoactive substances.
Amanita muscaria is a crimson-capped mushroom from northern forests whose compounds muscimol and ibotenic acid act on GABA receptors, producing sedative, deliriant states unlike classical psychedelics.
Amanita muscaria
Dissociative · 4-8 hours · Moderate
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian brew that pairs the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with DMT-containing leaves to produce one of the most profound psychedelic experiences known, used in healing ceremonies for centuries.
Banisteriopsis caapi + Psychotria viridis
Hallucinogenic · 4-8 hours · Intense
Ajo Sacha is an Amazonian liana (Mansoa alliacea) with a distinctive garlic aroma, used in Shipibo and other traditions as a master plant for cleansing, protection, and spiritual clarity.
Gentle
Cannabis is a resinous flowering plant whose cannabinoids interact with the endocannabinoid system, producing effects from mild relaxation to perceptual shifts depending on variety, dose, and context.
Cannabis sativa / Cannabis indica
Relaxant · 1-4 hours (inhaled), 4-10 hours (oral) · Moderate
Chiric Sanango is an Amazonian shrub (Brunfelsia grandiflora) used in Shipibo dietas, known for intense physical effects including cold sensations and trembling that mark deep healing work.
Moderate
Henbane is an ancient Mediterranean nightshade used in oracles and witchcraft, whose deliriant tropane alkaloids blur the line between sleep, vision, and waking consciousness.
Hyoscyamus niger
Deliriant · 6-12 hours · Intense
Belladonna is a European nightshade bearing glossy black berries and potent tropane alkaloids, a plant of oracles and witchcraft that crosses the threshold between vision and delirium.
Atropa belladonna
Deliriant · 12-24 hours · Intense
Blue Lotus is a sacred Egyptian water lily revered for millennia, producing gentle euphoria and dream-like states through nuciferine and aporphine alkaloids that act on dopamine receptors.
Nymphaea nouchali
Relaxant · 2-4 hours · Gentle
Bobinsana is an Amazonian flowering shrub (Calliandra angustifolia) used in traditional plant dietas, known for heart-opening, dreamwork effects, and as a gentle ally in Shipibo medicine.
Calliandra angustifolia
Gentle to Moderate
Coca is the sacred leaf of the Andes, chewed for millennia to sustain altitude, nourish ceremony, and carry prayers, often misunderstood globally yet central to Andean identity.
Erythroxylum coca
Stimulant · 1-2 hours · Mild
Datura is a thorn-apple nightshade containing powerful anticholinergic alkaloids, a plant with a long history in ritual and medicine and a serious reputation for danger even at low doses.
Datura stramonium
Deliriant · 12-36 hours · Overwhelming
Dream Herb (Calea zacatechichi) is a Mexican plant used for centuries by the Chontal Maya for lucid dreaming and divination, taken as a bitter tea before sleep to enhance dream content.
Calea zacatechichi
Guayusa is an Amazonian holly (Ilex guayusa) traditionally brewed by the Kichwa people in pre-dawn ceremonies for dream interpretation, prized for its smooth caffeine and theobromine content.
Ilex guayusa
Hawaiian Baby Woodrose is a tropical climbing vine whose seeds contain LSA, producing a dreamy, introspective psychedelic state with pronounced physical sedation lasting 6-8 hours.
Argyreia nervosa
Psychedelic · 6-10 hours · Moderate
Iboga is a Central African rainforest shrub whose root bark contains ibogaine, producing an intense, multi-day experience used in Bwiti initiation and studied for addiction interruption.
Tabernanthe iboga
Hallucinogenic · 24-36 hours · Intense
Kanna is a South African succulent used for centuries by Khoisan peoples, producing mood elevation and mild empathogenic effects through serotonin reuptake inhibition.
Sceletium tortuosum
Empathogen · 1-3 hours · Mild
Kava is a Pacific Island root whose kavalactones calm the nervous system and induce a state of sociable relaxation without intoxication, central to ceremony across Polynesia and Melanesia.
Piper methysticum
Relaxant · 2-4 hours · Mild
Kratom is a Southeast Asian tree whose leaves act on opioid and adrenergic receptors, producing stimulating effects at low doses and sedating analgesia at higher ones.
Mitragyna speciosa
Stimulant / Sedative · 3-6 hours · Mild
Mambe and Ambil are an ancient Amazonian ceremonial pair, mambe (coca leaf powder) and ambil (tobacco paste), used by Uitoto, Muinane, Bora, and related peoples of the Colombian Amazon for sacred dialogue and clarity.
Mandragora is the storied root of European witchcraft and ancient medicine, a nightshade whose tropane alkaloids have long blurred the boundary between healing, vision, and madness.
Mandragora officinarum
Morning Glory is a common garden vine whose seeds contain ergine (LSA), producing a dreamy, watery psychedelic state gentler and shorter than LSD, used ceremonially in ancient Mesoamerica.
Rivea corymbosa
Opium Poppy is the ancient source of morphine and codeine, whose milky latex has shaped medicine, trade, war, and addiction across thousands of years of human history.
Papaver somniferum
Sedative · 4-6 hours · Moderate
Peyote is a small, spineless cactus from the Chihuahuan Desert, sacred to Native American peoples, containing mescaline and used ceremonially for thousands of years.
Lophophora williamsii
Hallucinogenic · 10-12 hours · Intense
Psilocybe cubensis is a family of fungi containing psilocybin, used in Mesoamerican ceremony for millennia and now at the center of a renaissance in psychiatric research.
Psilocybe cubensis (and 200+ species)
Hallucinogenic · 4-6 hours · Moderate
Rape is a sacred tobacco-based snuff from Amazonian traditions, blown into the nostrils in ceremony for purifying, grounding effects, and used as a facilitator alongside other plant medicines.
Nicotiana rustica
Grounding · 15-30 minutes · Moderate
Salvia is a mint-family plant from the cloud forests of Oaxaca that produces one of the most intense, short-lived altered states known, acting on kappa-opioid receptors rather than serotonin.
Salvia divinorum
Dissociative · 5-30 minutes (smoked) · Intense
San Pedro is a towering Andean cactus containing mescaline, used in healing ceremonies for thousands of years and prized for its gentle, earth-connected psychedelic quality.
Echinopsis pachanoi
Psychedelic · 8-14 hours · Intense
Sinicuichi (Heimia salicifolia) is a Mexican shrub historically used in Aztec medicine, said to produce mild euphoria and unusual auditory effects, with research on its alkaloids still emerging.
Syrian Rue is an ancient Eurasian plant containing harmala alkaloids that act as MAOIs, used for millennia in folk medicine and increasingly as a component in ayahuasca analogues.
Peganum harmala
MAO Inhibitor · 3-6 hours · Moderate
Voacanga is a West African tree whose seeds contain voacangine, a precursor to ibogaine, used in traditional medicine and now sourced for the semi-synthesis of ibogaine therapeutics.
Voacanga africana
Wild Dagga is a South African plant traditionally used by the Khoikhoi, producing mild euphoric and relaxing effects gentler than cannabis, attributed to marrubiin and compounds with endocannabinoid activity.
Yopo is a South American tree whose seeds are ground into a powerful DMT and bufotenine-containing snuff, used in ceremony across the Orinoco basin for centuries.
Anadenanthera peregrina
Psychedelic · 1-2 hours · Intense
