Note: I don't agree AT ALL with the aims of some organisations linked to below. But their effectiveness (or lack thereof) is worth studying.
Fundamentals For Effective Lobbying
Effective Lobbying Strategies
The Victorian drug statistics handbook 2003: Patterns of drug use and related harm in Victoria
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/drugservices/downloads/hbook_2003.pdf Not much use, messy and inconsistent stats - sometimes MDMA is included as a hallucinogen ( eg for health reporting purposes), sometimes not
2007 National Drug Strategy
Household Survey
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/phe/ndshs07-df/ndshs07-df.pdf Form of hallucinogens used, recent users aged 14 years or older - Datura/angel’s
Louisiana State law banning a number of plants, including such deadly varieties as Mugwort, Lions tail and Damiana: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722309
and their law that banned Salvia Divinorum, plus datura, galangal (yes, that's right), Calea and many more.
But don't feel left out, our glorious federal government is giving their own band of stupidity a red-hot go
"Naming a phantom – the quest to find the identity of Ulluchu, an unidentified ceremonial plant of the Moche culture in Northern Peru"
http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/5/1/8
Also cool.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T8D-475TD0C-5D&_user=10&_coverDate=07%2F08%2F1994&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2c3bb6eda93339ced20cb5115469e44a&searchtype=a
Plants used for stress-related ailments in traditional Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho medicine. Part 1: Plants used for headaches Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Ethnobotanical inventory of medicinal plants used by the Guaymi Indians in Western Panama. Part I Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Volume 20, Issue 2, July 1987, Pages 145-171
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.library.newcastle.edu.au/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T8D-475B9CJ-4J&_user=915767&_coverDate=07%2F31%2F1987&_rdoc=5&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=doc-info%28%23toc%235084%231987%23999799997%23357126%23FLP%23display%23Volum
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3542&view=findpost&p=31225
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22932&view=findpost&p=237276
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19199&view=findpost&p=191169
http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4902&view=findpost&p=44532
More to come
These links won't work for most people, sorry. Will post more info soon.
Alkaloids from Boophone disticha with affinity for the serotonin transporter
https://0-www.thieme-connect.com.library.newcastle.edu.au/ejournals/abstract/plantamedica/doi/10.1055/s-0028-1084063
A preliminary inventory of plants used for psychoactive purposes in southern African healing traditions
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921267239
Review on plants with CNS-effects used in traditional S
"Effect of Triterpenoid Saponins from Bacopa monniera on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairment in Mice" Yun Zhou1, Ling Peng2, Wei-Dong Zhang3, De-Yun Kong4, Planta Medica, 2009; 75: 568-574
Given the mode of action this suggests, maybe brahmi can be utilised as a treatment or preventative when anticholinergic compounds are causing problems.
Evodia fruits (Evodia rutaecarpa, Rutaceae) "evodiamine shows the analgesic action by desensitizing sensory nerves" "The Nociceptive and Anti-Nociceptive Effects of Evodiamine from Fruits of Evodia rutaecarpa in Mice", Yoshinori Kobayashi, Planta Medica 2003; 69: 425-428
Distribution of Alkaloids in Some Western Australian Plants
T. E. H. Aplin and J. R. Cannon
Economic Botany, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1971), pp. 366-380
But there was also this: Ochrosia poweri
Alkaloids of Ochrosia poweri Bailey. II. The 2-acylindole stem-bark bases
B Douglas, JL Kirkpatrick, BP Moore and JA Weisbach
Abstract
Stem-bark of Ochrosia poweri Bailey furnished isoreserpiline, elliptamine, and three new indole alkaloids, ochropamine (C22H26O3N2), ochropine (C23H28O4N2), a
Following the dicussion with Mindexpansion, JDanger, Vertemorphous etc, here is the start of my collection of relevant research. This will be transferred to a thread shortly, and (if I had my way), would be avalable through the eventual (possible) website set up to provide advocacy and information to defend ethnobotanical cultivation and practices. Note that due to my university web access most of these links won't work, so you may have to use the citation provided and find a copy yourself. Enjo
In searching for NMDA antagonists in nature, I came across this species. Research on it seems quite new (relatively).
Planta Medica 2000; 66: 770-772
"Antinociceptive Profile of Hodgkinsine"
To further understand the mechanism of analgesic activity and structural requirements of pyrrolidinoindoline alkaloids identified in Psychotria colorata, we here report the analgesic activity of the trimer hodgkinsine on thermal and chemical models of analgesia. Results show that hodgkinsine produces a
Polygala tenuifolia - Chinese Senega, Yuan Zhi
The methanol fraction of an ethanolic extract from the roots of Polygala tenuifolia Willd. showed antagonistic action on neurotoxicity induced by glutamate and serum deficiency in PC12 cells. Bioassay-guided fractionation led to the isolation of six new triterpenoid saponins, onjisaponins V - Z, and Vg (1 - 6), together with ten known saponins (7 - 16). The structures of 1 - 6 were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical methods. Screening result
Aquired a couple of new things the other day:
Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Spire' This stuff smells great! Can't wait to test the roots for activity,
Salvia 'Blue Chiquita' This will probably turn out to be nothing spectacular. But no one seems to know what sp it actually is. Have tasted it: Leaves have a strange odour, like both officianalis and Pineapple sage at the same time. It is also fiercely bitter in a way that I have not tasted for a long time. Will post follow ups later;)
Faucari
