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Wild Tomato 'yellow currant' (Solanum pimpinellifolium) from Peru: Wild Chili 'Tepin' (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum / var. aviculare) from Mexico:

Wild tea buds (Ming Qian) infusion in a traditional bamboo cup, in which they brew it in Yunnan, the home of tea:

Great millet (Sorghum bicolor)- flour from Nigeria ...it has a slight sweet taste: African millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana)- flour: Teff- bread (selfmade with sourdough, 70% Eragrostis tef- flour from Ethiopia, spelt flour, soybean flour, sesame, sunflower seeds, wild caraway and juniper berries):

Today I harvested some Yomogi- herb (Artemisia princeps, grown from seed) for the traditional japanese Kusa Mochi, because I love mochis, but only got the commercial mochis here The yomogi is made into tea and this is microwaved with glutinous rice flour, sugar and a few drops of rice vinegar the Kusa Mochi:

hehe ;-) great idea

@ ballzac: I didn't think on crimes, only wanted to understand the reason / motivation... @ Torsten: Thanks for sharing your knowledge about julian

how do you bethink this claim? he mentioned folias / Julian many times, justifiably and I agree and only wanted to know if he knows, what was folia's reason for harvesting so much dangered species, for him or for money

@ Torsten, thanks for the info on folias, now I understand the reason for phyllode's aggression, although it was a bit nonspecific... folias did sell the harvested material right? so it was all about making money?

I didn't try it yet ;-) but I think Tabernaemontana undulata has a milky sap, like the most Apocynaceae It surely hurts, but there are much more painful rituals, I think on the bullet-ants-gloves

The Matis tribe using hallucinogenic eyedrops from Tabernaemontana undulata which contains ibogaine: http://www.amazon-in...s-Video-01.html the Matis also use the secretions from the treefrog Phyllomedusa bicolor for hunting visions and put small balls of it on small burns of the skin.

I have seen the video, its a good documentary, Piri-Piri is thought to be Justicia pectoralis var. stenophylla and contains cumarines, I only knew about intranasal application... I would call the frog secretion pseudohallucinogenic. It does not act on a way like clasical hallucinogens, but the fly agaric also does not... but sure the indians have visions, especially from the animal world it contains highly active opioid peptides and there is more research to be done on the complex cocktail of constituents in the secretion yes, Ibogain is hallucinogenic from 300-1000mg but the stimulant effect takes place at 8mg. (The stimulants Lambarene and Iperton were sold in France and contained around 8mg). Also in Gabon they only once take a big dose and otherwise only very small dosages As Iboga also has a white sap, I think it really is possible to have a slight stimulant effect from this sap, when used as eyedrops

More on Sophora species: As qualia wrote in his thread, Sophora flavescens- root- extracts can be used as insecticide, which I've tried and can confirm One good Bio Insecticide- product is based on extracts from Chenopodium ambrosioides, Stemona japonica and Sophora flavescens with its active constituents Matrine and Oxymatrine It has especially good results against Thrips. Sophora flavescens- root (ku shen) is also used in Chinese medicine and newest research shows that it is one of the few plants which can be used against reflux and dyspepsia (like turmeric), because it decreases acid secretion, additionally it acts against Staphylococcus aureus. My mum tested it against dyspepsia and it was very successful. Also the constituents Matrine and Oxymatrine (both at 2%) act as mu- and kappa-opioid-receptor agonists and increase cholinergic activation, because of this, ku shen is a good analgesic. Sophora subprostrata syn. S. tonkinensis (shandougen) is also used in chinese medicine, contains Matrine and Oxymatrine (both at 1%) and is also a good analgesic. Like S. flavescens it is used in cancer therapies, against arrythmia, asthma, viral and bacterial infections and skin disorders. Sophora subprostrata syn. tonkinensis- root, sliced: The main effect of both Sophoras on the CNS is sedative in nature, effective against insomnia and as tranquilizer. Sophora secundiflora is the famous mescal bean, which was once used by Native American tribes as a hallucinogen. It is very dangerous and contains cytisine in the red beans. Sophora secundiflora- seed:

thanks for the pic, it can be seen that the real zacatechichi not only has narrower leaves but also a more coarse surface and not as big parallel veins emerging from the leafbase as the other variety

thanks, LokStok

I saw the snow lotus at around 5.000m altitude in the indian himalaya (Ladakh, Kardung La): Saussurea medusa: or course I didn't take it...

by the way, there are much more threatened plants because of nonsustainable collections of medicinal barks, like cat's claw (Uncaria tomentosa) in some regions, also Lapacho, Jatoba, Catuaba and many more are barks... but there are also regions where they grow in bulks and there are also reforestations even with paranuts (Brazil nuts) - collection from the gound in Amazonia (always from wild trees), there is a problem because in some areas they collect too much, so that no new seedling can grow... then there are many roots and stems used in TCM, some from endangered plants, like Dendrobium sp., a Glycyrrhiza- species, wild ginseng, Catharanthus roseus, snow lotus and pacific yew I think this problems are much bigger, considering the big global market for this plants in comparison to the Dimitri- plants

@phyllode: you can fight your acacia-wars with yourself, I must laugh about your crazy shit # sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come ;-) # I don't fear you little worm @ folias: thats fine, will it be obtainable in Europe?

I understand, the humid summers are essential for some plants

do you have high ait humidity in your region? here its hard to grow Leptospermum citratum at the window...

sry, then I misunderstood you, of course its a strong plant

I will ignore the insane aggressive posts of phyllode... folias, is your book obtainable? I would be glad to read it :-)

lemon tea tree has a wonderful scent when chewed

thats a good idea, I've brought seasalt from New Zealand and will mix it with horopito anf kawa- leaves ;-) I didn't find more on Freud's fern-phobia I'm writing 3 books at the time, but they are not ready for the market

I don't think there are "bad" plants, its only the perspective from the inquisition, which remained in the western societies, after all its not the strongest, belladonna is much stronger Years ago I've made a very intense 3-day- trip with belladonna and had multiple-stage-lucid dreams and talked to people who were physically not in the room... I was young and careless, but its definitely only for the very experienced shamans, not for us psychonauts I would call the entheogenic Solanaceae not hallucinogenic but deliriant or veramimetic (my word for it, from vera, the trueness) because you can't distinguish the visions from the classical "reality", you think its true what you see...

Small peas from Nepal, with close relationship to the wild peas: Brown soy beans from Nepal, also with close relationship to the wild soy bean, which is also brown: Sorghum bicolor- millet-flour from Nigeria, 24-fold: