has anybody ever heard of this...i was given some as a gift today....supposedly 150-200 seeds crushed and boiled and drunk pulp and all will produce a stong 6-8 hour psychadelic experience...its called semillas de la virgen...seeds of the virgen or virgen's seeds and according to the self-proclamed shaman that gave them to me 1 of the 7 plants of power...others being peyote, cappi, mimosa, mushrooms, datura...etc
the seeds look like small peppercorns and i was told that it's a clibling vine with flowers...i'm going to plant some out of pure curiosity
Turbina corymbosa Turbina corymbosa flowers Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Turbina Species: T. corymbosa Binomial name Turbina corymbosa (L.) Raf. Synonyms Convolvulus corymbosus L. Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hallier f. Ipomoea corymbosa (L.) Roth Ipomoea burmannii Choisy Turbina corymbosa (Rivea corymbosa), Christmas vine, is a species of morning glory, native throughout Latin America from Mexico in the North to Peru in the South and widely naturalised elsewhere. It is a perennial climbing vine with white flowers, often planted as an ornamental plant. This plant also occurs in Cuba, where it usually blooms from early December to February. Its flowers secrete copious amount of nectar, and the honey the bees make from it is very clear and aromatic. It is considered one of the main honey plants from the island.
Known to natives of Mexico as Ololiúqui (also spelled ololiuhqui or ololiuqui), its seeds, while little known outside of Mexico, were perhaps the most common hallucinogenic drug used by the natives.
In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes first identified ololiuhqui as Turbina corymbosa and the chemical composition was first described on August 18, 1960, in a paper by Dr. Albert Hofmann. The seeds contain ergine (LSA), an ergoline alkaloid similar in structure to LSD. The psychedelic properties of Turbina corymbosa and comparison of the potency of different varieties were studied in the Central Intelligence Agency's MKULTRA Subproject 22 in 1956.
The Nahuatl word ololiuhqui means "round thing", and refers to the small, brown, oval seeds of the morning glory, not the plant itself, which is called coaxihuitl, "snake-plant", in Nahuatl, and hiedra or bejuco in the Spanish language. The seeds, in Spanish, are sometimes called semilla de la Virgen (seeds of the Virgin Mary).
The seeds are also used by Native shamans in order to gain knowledge in curing practices and ritual, as well as the causes for the illness.
This species is an invasive species to the United States as well as to Australia, where it has become more naturalized.
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so nobody out there has any experience with this?...have i really been given such an oddity? i guess in a way that's cool that i've got something so rare that nobody on here know what it is. please share you experiences whith me so i know what i'm in for...i cant find any trip repots on the internet....just a little of it's history and it's chemical contents
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See the sticky at the top of the lsa subforum for historical info. Chemically, they contact lysergic acid aside and several related alkaloids (if you want more detail, Google should satisfy your curiosity. There is no need to consume the pulp. All the actives are water-soluble. The Indians who use them just make a cold water infusion.
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also - boiling it would make it inactive as far as i know. antrocles wrote:...purity of intent....purity of execution....purity of experience...
...unlike the "blind leading the blind". we are more akin to a group of blind-from-birth people who have all simultaneously been given the gift of sight but have no words or mental processing capabilites to work with this new "gift".
IT IS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO EXPOSE OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO ANNIHILATION THAT WE DISCOVER THAT PART OF OURSELVES THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Quote: ‹Jorkest› the wall is impenetrable as far as i can tell Quote: ‹xtechre› cheese is great He who packs ur capsules - controls your destiny.
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