Identification of N,N-dimethyltryptamine and β-carbolines in psychotropic ayahuasca beverage

C Gambelunghe, K Aroni, Riccardo Rossi, L Moretti, M. Bacci

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Abstract

Recently many people have shown great interest in traditional indigenous practices and popular medicine, involving the ingestion of natural psychotropic drugs. We received a request to analyze and determine the nature of a dark green liquid with a dark brown plant sediment, which the police had seized at an airport and inside the home of a person belonging to the ‘Santo Daime’ religious movement. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of the extract identified N,Ndimethyltryptamine, a potent hallucinogen, and the β-carboline alkaloids harmine and harmaline, revealing monoamine oxidase A-inhibiting properties. These substances are typical components of Ayahuasca, a South American psychotropic beverage obtained by boiling the bark of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi together with the leaves of various admixture plants, principally Psychotria viridis.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)1056-1059
Numero di pagine4
RivistaBiomedical Chromatography
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2008

Keywords

  • Ayahuasca
  • N,N-dimethyltryptamine
  • harmaline
  • harmine
  • psychotropic drugs

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