Rivea corymbosa

Tiic Active Principles of the Seeds of Rivea corymbosa and Ipomoea violacea. Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets 20, 194 (1963). 

R. A. Heacock, and M. E. Mahon Ergot-type Alkaloids in Vegetative Tissue of Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hall. f. Phytochemistry 2, 99 (1963). 

Ergine, molecular formula C16H17N3O, is the amide of D-lysergic acid, and commonly known as LSA or LA-111. It is an ergoline alkaloid that occurs in various species of the Convolvulaceae, and in some species of fungus. Rivea corymbosa (ololiuqui), Argyreia nervosa (Hawaiian baby woodrose) and Ipomoea violacea (tlitliltzin) are three major sources of this alkaloid. 

Past experience has shown that for a divinatory plant to enlist the attention of the outside world two steps are usually necessary. First, it should be correctly and securely identified. Second, its chemistry should be convincingly worked out. Richard Evans Schultes settled the identity of ololiuhqui in the definitive paper published in 1941. OH It is the seed of a species of Convolvulaccne Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hall. hi. 

The question of whether to use the binomial Rivea corymbosa, or to assign the concept to Ipomoea on the one hand or Turbina on the other is, in effect, one of personal evaluation, by botanists, of the importance of characters. 

In view of the fact that such authorities as O Donell and Merrill elected to use Rivea corymbosa that Wilson acknowledges that the entire family is in need of intensive study and. ..all characters must be thoroughly re-evaluated that Roberty s article is hardly conservative and actually adds little to our basic knowledge of the family and. that the ethnobotanical and chemical literature has accepted Rivea corymbosa—in view of all these circumstances perhaps we might well continue to use the best known name until a really comprehensive study by a recognized specialist indicates that it is wrong. 

Salvia divinorum is a perennial labiate used for curing and divination by the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. The psychotropic effects the plant produces are compared to those of the other hallucinogens employed by the Mazatecs, the morning glory, Rivea corymbosa L., Hallier F. and the psilocybin-containing mushrooms. A discussion of the role of ska Marla Pastora in the "native pharmacopoeia" is based on previous reports and fieldwork by the authors with a Mazatec shaman. 

Bador, or badoh. was later identified as the morning glory, Rivea corymbosa, and it is the seeds that are used, not the leaves (Wasson 1963). Johnson was killed in Africa during World War II. 

L0LUIQUE -- Rivea corymbosa. Family Convolvulaceae (Bindweed family). 

The ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes sent samples of a cultivated Mexican morning glory to Hofmann in 1959, when it was still called Rivea corymbosa. He had seen it employed in divination by a Zapotec shaman in Oaxaca. Corymbosa is now considered one of five Turbina species—the only one appearing in the Americas. Though there are more than 500 species of Convolvulaceae widely scattered around the globe, they seem to have been used for their psychoactive properties only by tribes in the New World. 

Chromatograms of the alkaloidal extracts of 25 meg. of Turbina (Rivea) corymbosa (I), and 25 meg. Ipomoea violacea (II). 

Lysergic acid amide Morning glory seeds Rivea corymbosa, Ipomoea violacea Throughout the world Ololuiqui... 

In practicing their art, the Mazatecan shamans rely on a hierarchy of three hallucinogenic plants Salvia divinorum, Rivea corymbosa (morning glory seeds), and Psilocybe cubensis (the sacred mushroom). Each apprentice curer is introduced to the hierarchy in progressive steps ... 

The Aztecs used the seeds of several species for divination purposes in religious ceremonies. Ololiuqui is the seeds from Rivea corymbosa (also called Turbina corymbosa). The plant itself is called... 

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