Cheers, dfz, thank you for your resonance.
I don't think I will have a golden sickle with me... 😊 And about the avoiding falling on the ground custom, I believe it is an energetic oriented custom, similar to how if the mazatec don't use mushrooms picked if something negative happens on the way carrying it home... More specifically, mistletoe is associated with the sky (god(s)) (I personally can confirm that mistletoe's spirit has a "sky father" vibe to it) and falling on the ground might be interpreted as a contamination of it's essence. The ancients thought in very different ways than we do...
Yes I also considered the viscotoxins being proteins along with my subjective experience. Though I am not sure if it is the viscotoxins that cause side effects. Pharmacological naming or association can be misleading or confusing. Harmine and harmaline are often considered toxic in pharmacology...
About olive leaf, I really doubt it has its own psychoactivity. Waiting for more data from you.
The consciousness of plants is a constant source of information for medicine, alimentation, and art, and an example of the intelligence and creative imagination of nature. Much of my education I owe to the intelligence of these great teachers. Thus I consider myself to be the “representative” of plants, and for this reason I assert that if they cut down the trees and burn what’s left of the rainforests, it is the same as burning a whole library of books without ever having read them.
~ Pablo Amaringo