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Hallucinogenic drugs in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
Alucinógenos en las culturas precolombinas mesoamericanas
F.J. Carod-Artal
Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Virgen de la Luz, Cuenca, Spain
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or &#8216;chi&#8217; to the Maya&#44; was another alcoholic drink made by fermenting the sap of the maguey plant&#46; Different ceramic works from the Mayan classic period produced vessels marked with the glyph &#8216;chi&#8217;&#46; References to the use of hallucinogenic drinks also appear in the Dresden&#44; Borgia&#44; Florentine&#44; and Borbonicus codices&#46; The Codex Vindobonensis shows richly dressed figures drinking pulque&#46; The mural known as &#8216;The Drinkers&#8217; in Cholula&#44; Puebla &#40;Mexico&#41;&#44; shows male and female figures drinking pulque in a group ceremony&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Those who drank balch&#233; would also take other psychoactive substances&#44; smoke wild Mesoamerican tobacco &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Nicotiana rustica</span>&#41;&#44; and perform ritual enemas&#46; Tobacco was consumed smoked&#44; inhaled&#44; or chewed&#59; it was also mixed with the leaves of datura &#40;tolohuaxihuitl&#59; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Datura stramonium</span>&#41; or <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Brugmansia</span> spp&#46; The high psychoactive alkaloid content of these plants intensified the entheogenic effect&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Wild tobacco&#44; which the Maya called <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">piziet</span>&#44; also played a part in many sacred ceremonies&#46; The Temple of the Cross in Palenque&#44; Chiapas&#44; houses a stela depicting God G smoking tobacco &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; In his historical treatise <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Historia de Guatemala o Recordaci&#243;n florida</span>&#44; Francisco Fuentes y Guzm&#225;n mentions different uses of tobacco amongst the Maya in the 16th century&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a></p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#8220;They also adored and attributed divine power to the herb they call piziet&#44; which is tobacco&#59; their custom is to imbibe the smoke&#44; and thus inebriated&#44; they will invoke the devil to learn about the future and pass on the pleas and wishes commended to them by others&#46; We understand that this practice of augury was reserved for the priests of their demonic and accursed idols&#46;&#8221;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Some substances were used to provide visions and to decrease pain inflicted by self-sacrifice&#44; a typical practice in Mayan culture&#46; For example&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Naab</span>&#44; a white lotus or water lily found in the lakes and rivers of Guatemala &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Nymphaea ampla</span>&#41;&#44; was smoked or eaten raw for the psychoactive properties of its bulbs and roots&#46; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Naab</span> makes frequent appearances in Maya iconography&#44; and it is usually associated with death&#44; the underworld gods&#44; and the afterlife&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Mayan priests &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">chilam</span>&#41; practised divining and entered ecstatic states to communicate with the gods and forces of nature&#44; or to transform themselves into personifications of corn or rain&#46; The flower of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N&#46; ampla</span> became a symbol of high lineage and it frequently appears on the headdresses of the Maya elite&#46; This plant was regarded as a link to fertility because it provided food for fish&#44; while water in which it grew made the earth fertile for growing corn&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Maya used enemas to administer certain substances in order to attain more intense trance states more quickly&#46; Researchers have discovered Mayan classic-period sculpture and ceramics depicting scenes in which hallucinogenic enemas were used in rituals&#59; some figures are shown vomiting while others receive enemas&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> There are also anthropomorphic terracotta figures demonstrating the self-administration of psychoactive enemas&#46; The iconography on many ceramic vessels from the Mayan late classic period shows some figures chatting as they received enemas &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#44; and pots overflowing with foam from a fermented drink&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Various descriptions from the colonial period &#40;such as the Florentine Codex&#41; describe how enemas were used to combat illness and discomfort of the digestive tract&#46; Enema use was also associated with rites or ceremonies in which participants tried to reach a state of ecstasy through inebriation&#46; Enemas containing alcohol&#44; sometimes mixed with other psychoactive substances&#44; were applied using syringes made of gourd and clay&#46; The god Akan&#44; whom Spanish writers referred to as the Mayan Bacchus&#44; watched over the ritual enemas and bacchanalia&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Many ceremonies were held underground&#44; in dark caves&#44; which were considered points of access to the underworld&#46; This was thought to intensify the inner vision provided by ingesting psychostimulants and hallucinogens&#46; Furthermore&#44; prolonged fasting&#44; rhythmic music&#44; and dancing&#44; along with use of hallucinogens&#44; provided a favourable setting for contact with the spirit world&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Mayan consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs during their religious ceremonies was condemned by the first Spanish priests&#46; Diego de Landa<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> provided the following description of balch&#233; use&#58; &#8220;The Indians consumed alcohol and drugs in immense quantities&#44; which gave rise to many evils&#44; including murders&#46; They made wine from honey&#44; water&#44; and the root of a certain tree which they grew just for that purpose&#46; The wine had a very strong flavour and a putrid odour&#8221;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Sacred mushrooms</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The main entheogenic mushrooms belong to the genera <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Panaeolus</span>&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Stropharia</span>&#46; The <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span> genus includes some 230 mushroom species&#59; at least 54 are found in Mexico and they were used for their hallucinogenic properties by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures&#46; Noteworthy examples include <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P&#46; semilanceata</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P&#46; mexicana</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P&#46; aztecorum</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P&#46; cubensis</span>&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P&#46; caerulescens</span>&#46; These are small mushrooms with a height range of 2&#46;5-10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm&#59; the stalks are long&#44; thin&#44; and fibrous&#44; and the caps measure between 1 and 3<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm across&#46;</p><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The main active ingredient present in <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span> spp&#46; is an indolealkylamine&#44; 0-phosphoryl-4 hydroxy-<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>&#44;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>-dimethyltryptamine or psilocybin&#46; Once psilocybin has been ingested&#44; it undergoes dephosphorylation&#46; This process transforms it into psilocin &#40;4-hydroxy-<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>-dimethyltripatmine&#41;&#44; which has stronger hallucinogenic properties&#46; Psilocybin can be absorbed in the form of fresh&#44; non-boiled mushroom&#44; or as dried powdered mushroom&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Psilocybin levels vary between different mushroom species&#44; although doses of more than 5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg provoke hallucinogenic effects&#46; Thirty minutes after ingesting the mushroom&#44; the subject experiences sensations of euphoria&#44; detachment&#44; distortion of the visual field&#44; and introspection with a tendency towards isolation from surroundings&#46; The duration of these trance-like symptoms is 4-6<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#46; Subjects also exhibit cutaneous and facial flushing&#44; sweating&#44; tachycardia&#44; and increased arterial pressure&#46; High doses &#40;20-30<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#41; may provoke cholinergic symptoms including dry mouth&#44; urinary retention&#44; and increase in hallucinations&#46; By 8<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>hours after consumption&#44; the subject&#39;s state will be normal&#46; On some occasions&#44; headache&#44; fatigue&#44; and a feeling of well-being may persist for several days&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The consumption of hallucinogenic mushrooms in ritual ceremonies was widespread among Mesoamerican cultures&#46; Religious practices with sacred mushrooms extended from the Valley of Mexico to the rest of Central America&#44; and they are thought to be at least 3500 years old&#46; The Maya consumed <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">k&#8217;aizalaj Okox</span> &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe cubensis</span>&#41;&#44; known to the Aztecs as <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">teonan&#225;catl</span>&#46; These mushrooms were also consumed by the Huastec&#44; Totonac&#44; Mazatec&#44; and Mixtec peoples&#46; Since prehistoric times&#44; the people of Teotenango have had the custom of grinding mushrooms with water on models of temples that were to be constructed&#44; or on stones marked with petroglyphs&#46; Furthermore&#44; archaeological evidence points to mushroom use in Mexico&#44; Guatemala&#44; Honduras&#44; and El Salvador&#44; where the &#8216;mushroom stones&#8217; carved to represent hallucinogenic mushrooms have been found&#46; In Kaminaljuy&#250;&#44; Guatemala&#44; researchers found 9 mushroom stones whose stalks are decorated with anthropomorphic figures demonstrating the pre-Hispanic custom of grinding sacred mushrooms into powder&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Mixtec god Seven Flowers was depicted with two mushrooms in his hands&#46; A sculpture of Xochipilli&#44; the Aztec god of flowers&#44; was found in the 16th century on the slopes of Popocatepetl&#46; It features a variety of medicinal and hallucinogenic plants and fungi&#44; including <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe aztecorum</span>&#44; whose habitat is limited to this region&#46; Other psychoactive plants carved into this sculpture include <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Nicotiana tabacum</span>&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Heimia salicifolia</span> &#40;sinicuichi&#41;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Turbina corymbosa</span> &#40;ololiuhqui&#41; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span> spp&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Tepantitla mural in Teotihuac&#225;n&#44; dating to 500 CE&#44; is also very illustrative&#59; it shows the Toltec rain god Tlaloc&#44; with priest-like figures bearing hallucinogenic mushrooms springing up where his raindrops fall &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41;&#46; The Dresden and Madrid codices show mushrooms in Mayan scenes of human sacrifice&#46; Psychoactive mushrooms were also used in the coronation ceremonies of numerous Aztec emperors&#44; including Tizoc&#44; Ahu&#237;zotl&#44; and Moctezuma II&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Several 16th-century historians &#40;Dur&#225;n&#44; Sahag&#250;n&#44; and Motolin&#237;a&#41; described Aztecs using sacred mushrooms during their religious ceremonies&#46; In <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Historia de las cosas de Nueva Espa&#241;a</span>&#44; Fray Bernardino de Sahag&#250;n &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0020">Fig&#46; 4</a>&#41; described the uses and properties of these hallucinogenic mushrooms as follows<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a>&#58;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0020"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#8220;The little mushrooms that grow in this land are named teonan&#225;catl&#46; They grow beneath the hay in the fields and plains&#46; They are round&#44; and their stems are tall and round and slender&#46; Their taste is unpleasant&#59; they cause sore throat and drunkenness&#46; They are used as medicine for fever and gout&#46; No more than two or three should be eaten&#46; Those who eat them see visions and feel fluttering of the heart&#59; the visions they see are sometimes frightening and sometimes humorous&#46; Those few who eat them in excess are driven to lust&#46; Silly and naughty boys are told that they have eaten nan&#225;catl&#8221;&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In 1959&#44; Albert Hofman isolated psilocin from <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe mexicana</span>&#44; and the field of ethnomycology was born&#46; Meanwhile&#44; Gordon Wasson described sacramental use of the mushroom <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span> spp&#46; among the Mazatec people and interviewed Mar&#237;a Sabina&#44; a well-known shaman&#46; Today&#44; Mazatec rituals associated with hallucinogenic mushroom use have been blended syncretically with various Catholic rites&#46; Mushrooms are harvested at dawn and during the new moon&#44; after which worshippers recite Christian prayers and bless the mushrooms in church&#46; The consumption ritual during which <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Psilocybe</span> specimens are ingested a pair at a time must comply with a series of precepts&#44; including fasting and abstinence from sex and alcohol&#46; The ritual takes one night to perform and mushrooms must be placed on an altar and purified with tobacco and incense&#46; This will let the shaman diagnose and treat participants&#8217; illnesses&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Peyote</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Peyote &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Lophophora williansii</span>&#41; is a rounded spineless cactus containing more than 60 hallucinogenic alkaloids of the phenylethylamine family&#44; and especially mescaline&#46; The liquid extract of the peyote cactus is used to treat cutaneous lesions&#44; snakebite&#44; and scorpion stings&#44; since it contains peyocactin&#44; an alkaloid that has bacteriostatic properties&#46; The term <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">mescal</span> is derived from the Nahuatl <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">mexcalli</span> &#40;maguey&#41;&#46; The term is a misnomer introduced in colonial times because the Spaniards believed that the &#8216;inebriation&#8217; produced by peyote was similar to that resulting from drinking pulque&#46;</p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Mescaline &#40;3&#44;4&#44;5-trimethoxypheneylethylamine&#41; is responsible for the hallucinogenic effect of peyote&#46; Mescaline is found within mescal buttons at concentrations ranging from 1&#37; to 6&#37; and the minimum hallucinogenic dose is between 0&#46;3 and 0&#46;5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g&#44; equivalent to 5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g of dried peyote&#46; Dried mescal buttons from the cactus may be chewed or drunk in an infusion&#46; The typical dose is 4-12 buttons that are extracted from the main stem and cut into slices&#46; Dried peyote has a characteristic bitter taste&#46; Thirty minutes after it has been ingested&#44; it may cause nausea&#44; vomiting&#44; and sympathomimetic effects &#40;mydriasis&#44; diaphoresis&#44; hypertension&#44; tachycardia&#44; and trembling&#41;&#46; The sensory phase lasts at least 6<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>hours and subjects report colourful visual hallucinations &#40;kaleidoscopic visions&#41;&#44; sensation of weightlessness&#44; and altered perception of time and space&#46; Repeated consumption may lead to a degree of tolerance&#46;</p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Ritual use of peyote in the Americas dates back more than 5000 years&#44; to prehistoric times&#46; Traces of peyote in a ritual context have been found in Cuatro Ci&#233;nagas&#44; Coahuila&#44; Mexico and in the Shumla Cave in Texas&#44; together with other shamanic artefacts&#58; ritual deer scapula rattles&#44; bone rods and scrapers&#44; and tubes containing incense&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> Numerous Mesoamerican cultures&#44; including the Maya and the Aztecs&#44; consumed peyote&#46; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Sophora secundiflora</span> or mescal bean and the San Pedro cactus also contain mescaline and they were used in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica and the Andes&#44; respectively&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Fray Bernardino de Sahag&#250;n described the use of the drug <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a>&#58; &#8220;There is another herb like mountain prickly pear&#44; named peiotl&#44; which is white and can be found in the north&#46; Those who eat or drink of it see terrifying or absurd visions&#59; this inebriation lasts two or three days and then subsides&#46; It is a delicacy often enjoyed by the Chichimeca&#44; for it is sustaining and spurs them to fight with no thought of fear&#44; thirst&#44; or hunger&#44; and they say that it protects them from all danger&#46;&#8221;</p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Users were persecuted by the Inquisition&#44; and the practice was completely prohibited by 1720&#46; At present&#44; the Tarahumara&#44; Tepeh&#250;an&#44; and Huichol peoples of northern Mexico&#44; as well as the Navajo and Comanche in the southern United States&#44; use peyote in ritual and curative ceremonies and to promote communication with the spirit world&#46; Peyote rituals are still very much a part of life for the Huichol&#44; who make a yearly pilgrimage from the western Sierra Madre to Wirikuta&#44; the sacred site of peyote in Potos&#237;&#46; This journey requires spiritual purification&#44; abstinence rites&#44; and numerous ritual ceremonies&#44; including shooting arrows into the first cactus to be harvested and honouring it with an offering of corn&#46; The peyote is &#8216;hunted&#8217; in this way because the Huichol consider it to be the supernatural guardian of the deer&#46; Modern ceremonies take place at night and peyote consumption is associated with the use of tobacco and other psychoactive plants&#46; Huichol shamanism includes many elements in addition to mescaline consumption&#58; ritual singing&#44; magical flights&#44; and use of drums&#44; all within a religious and ceremonial circle of death and resurrection&#44; a concept shared with Euro-American shamanism&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Ololiuhqui</span><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The convolvulaceae are a family of herbaceous ornamental plants with infundibular &#40;bell-shaped&#41; flowers&#46; Different species have seeds containing different alkaloids of the LSD family&#44; such as <span class="elsevierStyleSmallCaps">d</span>-lysergic acid amide &#40;ergine&#41; and isoergine&#44; which act as partial serotonergic agonists&#46;</p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The seeds of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Turbina corymbosa</span> &#40;ololiuhqui&#41; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Ipomea violacea</span> &#40;tlilitzin&#41; were consumed by the Maya and Aztec for their psychotropic effects on perception and emotions and to induce trance states&#46; They were commonly used by Mixtec and Zapotec peoples in the state of Oaxaca&#44; and they are used to this day by the local healers who conduct curative and divination ceremonies&#46; Ololiuhqui is very common in Mexico&#44; and it is a type of morning glory so named because its flowers close during the night to reopen in the morning&#46; In Spanish&#44; it is also known as <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">quiebracajete blanco</span>&#44; or <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">flor de la virgen</span>&#44; since it had religious connotations in the 16th century&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">T&#46; corymbosa</span> has round coffee-coloured seeds&#44; whereas those of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Ipomea violacea</span> are black and called <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">badoh negro</span>&#46; These seeds are ground into powder and taken in water&#44; and they induce sensory&#47;perception alterations that include visual illusions&#44; synaesthesia&#44; euphoria&#44; memory changes&#44; and discrete somnolence&#46; In its cultural context&#44; in contrast with the practices associated with peyote or hallucinogenic mushroom use&#44; ololiuhqui is most often taken alone with the healer&#46; The first phase is marked by a psychic void&#44; which is at times accompanied by vasovagal response and vertigo&#59; some hours later&#44; this is followed by a period of intense serenity and sedation&#46;</p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Ethnohistorical accounts of use of this plant date to the 16th century&#46; During his journey through Oaxaca&#44; court physician Francisco Hern&#225;ndez described how these seeds were used&#46; He reported that a fully hallucinogenic dose contained 100-150 ground seeds dissolved in cold water&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> In the chapter titled &#8216;Some herbs with intoxicating effects&#8217;&#44; Fray Bernardino de Sahag&#250;n presented the following account of the psychoactive effects of ololiuhqui&#58;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#8220;There is an herb named coatl xoxouhquij &#40;green serpent&#41;&#44; and it grows a seed they call ololiuquj&#46; This seed produces inebriation and madness&#46; People mix it in potions to give to those they wish to harm&#59; those who eat it appear to see visions and terrifying things&#46; Sorcerers mix it with food and drink&#44; and so do those who hate others and wish to do them ill&#46; This herb is medicinal and its seed is used to treat gout&#59; ground seeds are applied to the gout-stricken area&#46;&#8221;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The conquistadors soon associated these trance states and the hallucinogenic effect of the seeds with witchcraft and charlatanism&#44; and they refused to recognise the religious and mystical significance of these ceremonies&#46; In 1591&#44; Juan de C&#225;rdenas described the following in his chronicles of the Indies<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a>&#58;</p><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#8220;In sooth they tell us that peyote&#44; and ololiuhque&#44; when taken by mouth&#44; will cause the wretch who takes them to lose his wits so severely that he sees the devil among other terrible and fearsome apparitions&#59; and he will be warned &#40;so they say&#41; of things to come&#44; and all this must be tricks and lies of Satanas&#44; whose nature is to deceive&#44; with divine permission&#44; the wretch who on such occasions seeks him&#8221;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0085"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Salvia divinorum</span></span><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Salvia divinorum</span>&#44; also known as <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">pipiltzintli</span> and ska Mar&#237;a Pastora&#44; was historically used by Mazatec shamans in Oaxaca&#46; The plant contains salvinorin A&#44; an agonist of the kappa-opioid receptor agonist&#44; and smoking it can produce an altered state of consciousness&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a> The effective dose is 200<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;g&#46; The psychoactive effects of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">S&#46; divinorum</span> are very intense and promote a pleasant state of introspection&#44; lack of attention to surroundings&#44; and increased sensitivity to luminous and auditory stimuli&#46; The state of lethargy it induces was used in practising divination&#46; The physiological effects associated with consuming this plant are lower blood pressure and lessened headache&#46; Use of this plant is prohibited in the United States&#44; and it is regarded today as an abused substance among adolescents&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0090">Toloache</span><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">D&#46; stramonium</span> is known as toloache or &#8216;devil&#39;s herb&#8217; in Mesoamerica &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5</a>&#41;&#46; Numerous native peoples of northern Mexico and the southern United States used the plant as medicine&#44; a means of diagnosing disease&#44; to experience their novice visions during puberty rites&#44; and as a hunting aid&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0025"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Unlike the different substances that were used to achieve trance states and better perception of consciousness&#44; toloache&#44; with its anticholinergic effect&#44; was used to create states of delirium featuring agitation and intense hallucinations&#46; Researchers in the Mexican state of Hidalgo have discovered pre-Columbian representations of reclining figures with toloache plants growing from their bellies&#46; Toloache was probably used in rites associated with human sacrifice&#46; The Huichol regarded it as the opposite of peyote&#44; which overcomes toloache according to their mythology&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0095">Teotlaqualli</span><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Teotlaqualli means &#8216;divine food&#8217; and it refers to a dark-coloured unguent or paste with which Aztec priests anointed their skin&#46; It was made from extracts of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Nicotiana rustica</span>&#44; ololiuhqui&#44; and the ashes of &#8216;poisonous animals&#8217; including spiders&#44; scorpions&#44; and snakes&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Even though its full contents are unknown&#44; some authors speculate that in addition to &#8216;divine tar&#8217;&#44; the unguent could contain substances that would be absorbed transdermally to provoke altered states of consciousness&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a></p><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The sooty appearance of the priests and healers who used this unguent was thought to indicate witchcraft in colonial times&#46; Fray Diego Dur&#225;n&#44; in his history book titled <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espa&#241;a e Islas de Tierra Firme</span>&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> wrote that &#8220;They mixed these things with soot and placed it in vessels and cups before their god like divine food&#46; Daubed with this mixture&#44; they could not help but turn into witches or demons&#44; and see and speak to the devil&#8221;&#46;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Teotlaqualli was offered to the gods as a divine food&#46; Aztec priests covered themselves with this mixture to reach the proper state of consciousness in which to serve the gods&#46; In some occasions&#44; Aztec emperors and even soldiers were painted with teotlaqualli&#46; Researchers believe that this substance provides the explanation for the dark colouration of some Aztec gods as they are shown in codices&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0100">Bufotoxins</span><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Bufotoxins&#44; found in the parotid glands of different toad species&#44; are toxic substances with psychoactive properties&#46; In Central America&#44; toads of the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Bufo</span> genus secrete a milky toxic substance to dissuade predators&#46; Animals that ingest the venom&#44; or eat the toad&#44; may experience cardiovascular and gastrointestinal symptoms&#46; The most severe forms of intoxication may provoke cardiac arrhythmia&#44; diarrhoea&#44; convulsions&#44; or even death due to cardiac arrest&#46;</p><p id="par0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Sonoran Desert toad&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Bufo alvarius</span>&#44; contains a variety of bufotoxins including 5-methoxy-<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>&#44;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span>-dimethyltryptamine and bufotenin&#44; both of which are hallucinogenic&#46; Other toad species produce bufotenin only&#59; while this substance is psychoactive if smoked or ingested&#44; it is somewhat less potent than other compounds&#46;</p><p id="par0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dried skins of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Bufo</span> spp&#46; have been used to induce trance states since Olmec times&#46; Proof of the above is that remains of these toads have been found in ceremonial complexes alongside Olmec priests&#44; and ceramic figures of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">B&#46; alvarius</span> have also been found in ritual settings&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> Ceremonial vessels featuring the sacred toad have also been discovered&#46; Historians of the 16th century stated that the Maya added tobacco and the skins of the common toad <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Bufo marinus</span> to their alcoholic drinks to increase their potency&#46; The K&#8217;iche&#8217; group of the Maya still uses the skin of this amphibian as an ingredient in their balch&#233;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Conclusions</span><p id="par0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At present&#44; numerous hallucinogenic substances derived from mushrooms and plants are still used in the indigenous societies of Mesoamerica&#44; and these societies have elaborated complex ceremonies to prevent the abuse of these substances&#46; Peyote cactus and psilocybin mushrooms are consumed in religious and therapeutic ceremonies&#46; The American Indian Religious Freedom Act specified that sacramental use of peyote was permitted for members of the Native American Church&#46; Hallucinogens were linked to the theocratic&#44; political&#44; and religious complex of Mesoamerican pre-Columbian societies&#46; In modern indigenous cultures&#44; however&#44; hallucinogens are viewed as an instrument permitting the continuity of the shamanic complex&#44; induction of altered states of consciousness&#44; and performance of curative ceremonies&#46; The abuse of these substances for hedonistic purposes is a recent development in post-modern European-American societies&#46; Use or abuse of these substances should be considered when young people are examined in hospital emergency departments with symptoms of delirium or altered level of consciousness&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0110">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The author has no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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