NATURAL HALLUCINOGENS: A FLIGHT FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO BRAZIL

NATURAL HALLUCINOGENS: A FLIGHT FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO BRAZIL. This work describes the historical importance and the use of hallucinogenic plants by different civilizations. A comparison between three Brazilian plants whose active principle is N,N-dimethyltriptamine (DMT), and three plant species native to Europe whose active principles are tropanic alkaloids was carried out and we observed these plants promoted different types of hallucinations.