There is a kind of mushroom called Gymnema mexicana, which contains Gymnemonine in its body. After eating by mistake, people's muscles relax and their pupils dilate. Soon, they have emotional disorders and feel isolated from their surroundings. They seem to have entered a dream, but they are still awake from the outside. Therefore, what they do is often puzzling.
After taking Harmonia, people will have strange hallucinations in their eyes, all the images will be enlarged, and an ordinary person will suddenly become a huge monster. It is said that if cats eat this kind of bacteria by mistake, they will be afraid that mice will suddenly become huge and lose the courage to hunt mice. This phenomenon is called "optical illusion" in medicine.
Mushrooms with brown scales and gray scales
The hallucinogenic effect of Grifola frondosa is another example. There will be all kinds of freaks in front of users: either slender or ugly. Soon, users will lose consciousness and fall asleep.
Users of Pleurotus eryngii will lose the concept of time, have colorful hallucinations in front of them, and sometimes feel the green fog around them, which makes people dizzy; Sometimes I feel trapped in a sea of fire, and strange light shines. Hai Mu, an American scholar, once found a record of magical mushrooms in the ancient Mayan civilization in Mexico. Later, people found stone carvings worshiping mushrooms in Mayan ruins in Guatemala. It turns out that as early as 3,000 years ago, the Mayans living in the jungles of South America had a mysterious reverence for this mushroom with special hallucinogenic effects, thinking that it was a "sacred object" that could lead people's souls to heaven and had infinite magic power, and respectfully called it "the flesh of God".
Many foreign scientists have studied hallucinogenic mushrooms in succession. They found that in ancient times when science was not prosperous, some ethnic minorities in Peru, India, Guinea, Siberia and Europe often used the "charm" of hallucinogenic mushrooms to add mystery to religious ceremonies. It should be noted that this superstitious thing is still used by some people today as a cover for them to defraud people of money, which is very sad!
Hallucinogenic marijuana
Besides mushrooms, marijuana has magical effects. Hemp is a useful fiber plant, but it contains tetrahydrocannabinol, a toxin. Eating too much will make people's blood pressure rise, the whole body tremble, and gradually fall asleep. For another example, there is a cactus plant called Wu Yufei in the greenhouse of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, which contains an alkaloid-"moscalin". People will enter a dreamlike state after eating it 1 ~ 2 hours. Usually manifested as dumbfounding and moody. This plant is native to South America.
Because the symptoms caused by hallucinogenic plants are quite similar to those of some mental patients, pharmacologists have gained new enlightenment: if the hallucinogenic plant extracts are used to artificially cause certain symptoms in experimental animals, it will be a great gain to provide effective data for studying the pathology, etiology and exploring new treatment methods of mental diseases.