I've just finished skimming through Ott's "Pharmahuasca, Anahuasca and Vinho da Jurema" and I've got a few questions which I hope we can answer together.

He talks about a research which showed 11% DMT content in Mimosa hostilis. The research was done by Holmstedt in 1983 and Sanchez Lemus in 1984 but he doesn't give any more details about the two studies so I'm wondering if anyone knows the titles ?

"There are no published analyses of vinho da jurema potions, but a 1983 collaboration between Karolinska Institutet and Universidade Federal do Paraiba in João Pessoa led to twoindependent analyses of jurema preta potions obtained from an Umbandista juremeira in Alhandra, Paraíba"

What is Umdandista juremeira ?

"Thus we have a range of reported DMT concentration in jurema preta root-bark from 1-11% [since PACHTER's group isolated 0.57% DMT, we can assume a total content perhaps twice as high];"

Why can we assume that ?


Thanks your thoughts.