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San Pedro Cactus, Trichocereus

A number of very important natural and synthetic biochemicals belong to the phenylethylamine family. Two of these compounds, dopamine and epinephrine (adrenaline), are neurotransmitters, substances that carry chemical messages through the nervous system of humans and other animals. A third phenylethylamine, tyrosine, is an essential amino acid. And a familiar phenylethylamine found in plants is mescaline, whose chemical name is 2-(3,4,5-trimethoxy-phenyl)ethylamine. The primary natural sources of mescaline are four varieties of cactus two peyote species (Lophophora wiUiamsii and Lophophora diffusa), the San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pacha-noi), and the Peruvian Torch cactus (Trichocereus peruvianus). [Pg.94]

Mescaline (peyote) is one such drug that has a cultural history dating from before the time of Christ as well as a separate history as a street drug. It is derived mainly from two members of the Cactaceae family—the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) and the San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi). [Pg.315]

A far more abundant plant source of mescaline is the Pemvian San Pedro cactus, Trichocereus pachanoi, or one of the other Trichocereiis species which contains... [Pg.50]

The three species of this semi-tribe contain mainly jS-phenetyhlamine derivatives and only traces of tetrahydroisoquinoUne. Most well known is the San Pedro cactus Trichocereus pachanoi, for its content of the hallucinogenic phenethylamine mesca-Une (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine) (Lundstrbm 1971). [Pg.52]

On the way back, Sasha proudly pointed out his San Pedro cacti (Trichocereus pachanoi, a mescaline-containing cactus.) One looked nearly five feet tall. It appeared that some of them had been trimmed... [Pg.1129]

SAN PEDRO -- Trichocereus pachanoi. Family Cactaceae (Cactus family). [Pg.19]

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). [Pg.419]

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