Psychoactive Preparations
Total of 12 psychoactive preparations in database.
• Ayahuasca
• Beer
• Bhang
• Chocolate
• Hashish
• Kava
• Laudanum
• Mead
• Opium
• Poppy Tea
• Purple Drank
Absinthe
General Info
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Psychoactive Info
Absinthe (also absinth) is a distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs including the flowers and leaves of the medicinal plant Artemisia absinthium, also called wormwood. Although it is sometimes incorrectly called a liqueur, absinthe does not contain added sugar and is therefore classified as a liquor or spirit.
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Effects: Intoxicant, HallucinogenAyahuasca
General Info
Ayahuasca or Yaje is a pharmacologically complex psychoactive infusion prepared from a number of plants for shamanic, folk-medicinal, and religious purposes.
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Other names: Yaje, La Purga, Shamans Brew
Psychoactive Info
Sections of vine are macerated and boiled alone or with leaves from any of a large number of other plants, including Psychotria viridis (chakruna in Quechua) or Diplopterys cabrerana. The resulting brew contains MAO inhibiting harmala alkaloids and the powerful hallucinogenic alkaloid N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a psychedelic which is active orally only when combined with an MAOI. Harmala alkaloids in Banisteriopsis caapi serve as MAOIs in Ayahuasca. Western brews sometimes substitute plant sources such as Syrian Rue or other harmala containing plants in lieu of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, but the vine itself is always central to traditional usage.
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Effects: PsychedelicBeer
General Info
Beer is one of the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverages. It is a fermented beverage made from malted barley, hops and water, and is carbonated in almost all cases. A wide variety of adjuncts can also be added to beer, either to achieve a particular flavor profile, or to lower the cost of production. Alcoholic beverages made from the fermentation of sugars derived from non-grain sources (for example, grape juice or honey), and beverages which are distilled after fermentation are not considered to be beer.
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Other names: Booze, Gurgle
Psychoactive Info
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Effects: IntoxicantBhang
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Psychoactive Info
Bhang is preparation from the leaves and flowers (buds) of the female cannabis plant, consumed in the Indian subcontinent. It is consumed either as a beverage or smoked.
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Effects: PsychedelicChocolate
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Psychoactive Info
Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs and the Maya, who made it into a beverage known as xocol?tl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.
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Hashish
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Other names: Hash
Psychoactive Info
Hashish (from the Arabic word for grass, often shortened to hash and also referred to by countless slang terms such as shit, chocolate, solids or flirty) is a psychoactive drug derived from the Cannabis indica plant. It is solid, of varying hardness and pliability, softening under heat. Its color can vary from reddish brown to black or it can be greenish or golden colored. It is usually smoked in pipes, and sometimes in joints mixed with tobacco or Cannabis buds. It can also be added to cookies or other food and ingested. Hash is used for its relaxing and mind-altering effects.
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Kava
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Psychoactive Info
Kava is prepared and consumed in a variety of ways throughout the Pacific Ocean cultures of Polynesia, Melanesia and some parts of Micronesia. In many areas, like Fiji and Tonga, it is consumed as an herbal tea; that is, an infusion made from straining a mixture of water and shredded, pounded, dried root and/or stump. The plant may also be chewed (traditionally by virgin girls) as part of preparing the kava using this method; this will affect the final product due to the enzymes in saliva.
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Effects: StimulantLaudanum
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Psychoactive Info
Laudanum is an opium tincture, sometimes sweetened with sugar and also called wine of opium. In the 16th century, Paracelsus experimented with the medical value of opium. He decided that its medical (analgesic) value was of such magnitude that he called it Laudanum, from the Latin laudare, to praise, or from labdanum, the term for a plant extract.
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Effects: SedativeMedicinal Properties: Analgesic
Mead
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Psychoactive Info
Mead is an alcoholic beverage, made from honey and water via fermentation with yeast. Its alcoholic content may range from that of a mild ale to that of a strong wine. It may be still, carbonated, or sparkling. It may be dry, semi-sweet, or sweet. Mead is often referred to as "honey wine".
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Effects: DepressantOpium
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Psychoactive Info
Opium is a dark, tar like substance, which is harvested from the pods of opium poppies (Papaver somniferum).
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Effects: SedativeMedicinal Properties: Analgesic
Poppy Tea
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Psychoactive Info
Poppy Tea is a narcotic analgesic tea which is brewed from the dried components of the Papaver somniferum plant. It has been consumed as long as the poppy has been cultivated for its psychoactive effects. Depictions both in Asian literature as well as in Western literature (such as in opium dens) abound. In some locales, preparation of tea may be preferred to opium as the latex of the plant (itself the primary component of opium) is illegal.
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Effects: SedativeMedicinal Properties: Analgesic
Purple Drank
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Other names: Sizzurp, lean, syrup, drank
Psychoactive Info
Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip-hop community of the southern United States. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink and pieces of Jolly Rancher candy. The purplish hue of purple drank comes from dyes in the cough syrup.
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Effects: Sedative"I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life."
- Timothy Leary