Plants
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Strychnos nux vomica – Poison nut, strychnine tree
The poison nut is a tree, that grows in Southeast Asia and Australia. Use: 1–5 mg of pure strychnine, maximum daily dose 10 mg....
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Sophora secundiflora – Texas mountain laurel
What was used is the red bean of an ever-green shrub of Mexico and Texas. The beans were, just like the beans of another...
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Smilax havanensis – Chaneyroot
The chaneyroot is a woody liana that grows in great masses out of a yellowish, gnarled, polymorph rootstock. The climbing stalks of the plant carry...
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Sassafras albidum – Sassafras
Sassafras is a tree with bluish leaves, which grows in the forests in the northeast of the USA. Use: Used are the bark of the...
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Salvia divinorum – Diviner’s sage, Ska maria pastora
A sage-species with characteristic thick tetragonal stalks. The stalks often show thin leafy fringes. This plant occurs naturally only in South Mexico, and even there...
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Rauwolfia serpentina – Indian snakeroot
The Snakeroot is an Indian shrub. Its roots have been medically used for a long time. Mahatma Gandhi drank daily a cup of snakeroot-tea. German...
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Psychotria viridis – Chacruna
A tropical, coffee-like shrub from the Amazonian lowlands, which is widely cultivated in South America, Hawaii and California as a result of the spreading of...
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Polygala tenuifolia – Yuan zhi
Polygala tenuifolia is a traditional Asian medicinal herb. It can be found in the moderate regions of Asia (Northern China, Japan). Used are the...
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Piper methysticum – Kava kava
The roots of a bush of the islands in the South Sea. Kava kava is the traditional inebriant there. There, where the too often...
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Phalaris-Species – Canarygrass
Various species of grass contain alkaloids: Phalaris arundinacea, that can be found, among others, in Europe and in the USA, the South European...