Mescal, Lophophora

Cactus Lophophora williamsii Top mescal button Mescaline Swallowed Hallucinogenic Native American Church Mexico, Texas... 

After a search for teonandcatl in specimens of Mexican mushrooms, a prestigious American botanist, Dr. William E. Safford, concluded that there simply were none. He felt that the Spanish chroniclers must have confused them with dried peyote. In a talk entitled "Identification of teonanacatl of the Aztecs with the narcotic cactus Lophophora williamsii and an account of its ceremonial use in ancient and modern times, Safford—who was known for lengthy titles—declared that the dried mescal button resembled "a dried mushroom so remarkably that, at first glance, it will even deceive a mycologist He hypothesized that the Indians may have deliberately misled the Spanish in order to protect their use of peyote. 

Camegiae gigantea, Lophophora uilliamsii (mescal button) (Cactaceae), Cytisus scoparious (Fabaceae), Musa paradisiaca (banana peel) (Musaceae), Hermidium alipes (Nyctaginaceae)... 

Lophophora williamsii (peyote, mescal buttons = cactus flower), Trichocereus pachanoi (cactus) [flesh for S. Am. Indian cimora hallucinogenic potion] (Cactaceae) Lophophora mlliamsii (peyote, mescal buttons = flowering heads of cactus) (Cactaceae), Alhagi, pseudoalhagi (Fabaceae)... 

An alkaloid obtained from the cactus Lophophora williamsii (= Anhalonium williamsii = A. lewinii) (Cactaceae), which grows in the northern regions of Mexico. The cactus is also known by the names peyote or peyotl and dried slices of the cactus are called mescal buttons . 

Peyote Mescal Mescal button Chemical/Pharmaceutical/Other Class A phe-nylethylamine derivative alkaloid hallucinogen found in the North American small, blue-green, spineless cactus Lophophora williamsii and in several South American cacti of the trichocereus species... 

Anhalonium Bad seed Big chief Button Cactus Indian dope Lophophora williamsii Mesc Mescal Mescal button Mescaline Moon tops Peyotl Turnip cactus... 

Anhalonium lewinii Hennings, syn. Lophophora wilUamsii (Lemaire) Coulter Britton and Rose, known as pellote, peyote, peyotl, and challote. The dried slices are called mescal buttons. Contains mescaline, N-methylmescaline, iV-acetylmescaline, anhalamine, anhalidine, anhalinine, anhalonidine, pellotine, 0-methylanhalonidine, anhalonine, and lophopho-rine (1, 37-59). 

The use of peyotl or mescal buttons is also not limited to middle America. Mescalin-containing powder is encountered more and more in Europe, where the users are primarily members of the drug scene. However, continuity of supply of mescalin is problematical. The peyote cactus Lophophora williamsii is also grown occasionally in Germany. 

Mescal button Lophophora wllllamsil 1 Mescaline hallucinogen (see p 247)... 

Peyote (payote, peyotl, from Aztec. nahuatl pey-otl=caterpillar). A small woolly-hairy hedgehog cactus (Lophophora williamsii, Cactaceae) widely distributed in northern central Mexico. The most important constituents responsible for the hallucinogenic activity of P. include Anhalonium or cactus alkaloids such as mescaline and the isoquinoline alkaloids iopho-phorine and pellotine (see Anhalonium alkaloids). Slices of the plant ( mescal buttons ) are eaten or extracts therefrom are drunk to achieve the narcotic state. The Christian Native Church uses P. for ritual purposes. 

Mescaline—from Lophophora ivilliamsii (Cactaceae)— peyote, mescal buttons. This plant is used as a hallucinogen by some native North Americans. 

It is obtained from Peyote (Mescal Buttons) the flowering heads of Lophophora williamsii (Lemaire) Coult. (Coctaceae) and the cactus Trichocereus pachanoi Britton and Rose (Cactaceae) (Achuma, San Pedro Aguacolli). 

Peyote The dried top of the peyote cactus Lophophora mlliamsii used by Native Americans for religious purposes and abused for the mescaline content. Also called mescal buttons. 

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