Mucuna pruriens (cowhage; velvet bean) is a tropical plant used by Ayurvedic healers and Native Americans for hundreds or thousands of years for various medicinal purposes. The seeds are also…
Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine employ a wide variety of medicinal plants, some of which have hallucinogenic properties. In this article I review the Chinese hallucinogens, some of which…
Oneirology, you might be surprised, is not just the name of an album by the Hip Hop trio CunninLynguists. So What is Oneirology? The oneirology to which I'll be referring…
The use of incense is found throughout the world and is believed to have given rise to the practice of smoking. Psychoactive smoking blends play important roles in shamanic rituals,…
Mother Ayahuasca ("vine of the soul") has been the most important medicine of the Amazonian Indians of South America since pre-Columbian times. Among its many uses: Medical purposes - to…
Khat (Catha edulis) is a stimulant or "upper," a substance that wakes one up, but doesn't effect any changes in perception. Long before the first coffee was ever brewed, humans…
A hypothetical candidate for the original soma plant of the Vedas, Bacopa monnieri (in Sanskrit sarasvati or "that which flows"), is a medicinal and nootropic plant named after Saraswati, the…
We may all dream four-to-six times a night but forget 90 percent of our dreams. Finding a way to record dreams would give us a proper peek into this mental…
While some people think dreams last 7 seconds, that is a myth. In the following brief article I shall try to answer the question of how long dreams last. While…