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.