DMT in Arundo Donax
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Arundo donax (aka "Giant Reed")
Yes. It contains some DMT, but not very much. Someone told me the other
day that a friend of theirs that is investigating this (solicited samples
from interested parties, and used thin layer chromatography to assay the
root stocks, from what I was told) says there's "little or no DMT" in
Arundo donax rhizomes.
The paper that first found DMT and a few other indole alkaloids in Arundo
donax (Ghosal) working in India (River Reed is used in Ayurvedic
medicine) also found only trace amounts. You'd have to extract several
kilograms to get a psychoactive dose of DMT. There are also several
cardioactive glycosides and other substances that would produce annoying
side effects if a crude extract were consumed - the effect of Arundo
donax extract on heart muscle (another paper by Ghosal et. al.) gave me
the impression that crude Arundo extracts are potentially dangerous.
You'd have to resort to solvent extraction followed by column
chromatography to extract pure DMT from the roots - a process probably
requiring several liters of solvent just to produce one dose of DMT.
I'll shell to DOS here and see if I can find my notes about Arundo
donax...
ok... here's a good starting point if you want to look into this:
DMT in Arundo Donax / Giant River Reed
SMITH TA<br>
"Tryptamines and Related Compounds in Plants"<br>
Phytochemistry, 1977, Vol.16 pp 171-175
ABSTRACT: The occurrence of the tryptamines and related compounds in
fungi and higher plants is listed on a taxonomic basis. Several of
these amines have considerable physiological activity in higher
animals.
Gramineae:
Arundo donax L.(Leaf,Flower,Rhizome) <br>
Methoxy-N-methyl-Tryptamine<br>
DMT<br>
DMT-Methohydroxide<br>
Bufotenine<br>
DMT-N-oxide<br>
Bufotenidine<br>
Dehydrobufotenine<br>
Gramine<br>
Gramine-N-oxide<br>
Gramine methohydroxide
[27] OREKHOV AP, NORKINA SS (1937) Zhur.Obsch.Chem. 7,673<br>
[28] GHOSAL S, BANERJEE PK, BANERJEE SK (1970) Phytochemistry 9,429<br>
[29] GHOSAL S, CHAUDHURI RK, DUTTA SK (1971) Phytochemistry 10,2857<br>
[30] GHOSAL S, CHAUDHURI RK, DUTTA SK, BATTACHARYA SK (1972) Planta Med.21,22
Tryptamines in the Graminacea:
Arundo donax - Giant River Reed<br>
Phalaris arundinacea
_A Handbook of Alkaloids and Alkaloid Containing Plants_<br>
Wiley Interscience, Raffauf QK898.A4 R34 (1970)
N,N-DMT GRAM-028A refs:1946, 573<br>
N,N-DMT-5-MeO GRAM-030A <br>
Bufotenine GRAM-030A refs:1945<br>
Gramine GRAM-016A
573 Aus J. Chem 17:1301 (1964) [Phalaris]<br>
416 Aus J. Chem 19:893 (1966) [Phalaris]
1946 Dutta,SK;Ghosal,S _Chem.Ind._ (1967) p2046<br>
1945 Moore,RM; Williams,JD; Chia,J _Chem.Abst._ 68:75704v (1968)
574 Ghosal,S; Mukhergee,BB _Chem.Ind._ (1965), 793<br>
575 Morinato,H; Matsumoto,N _Am.Chem._ 692 p194 (1966)
464 Legler,G; Tschesche,R _Naturwiss_ 94 (1963)
REFERENCES:
_Tryptamine and related compounds in plants._ SMITH, TA.<br>
"Phytochemistry." vol.16 pp.171-175. (1977) QK861.P45
_The Occurrence of Indolealkylamine Alkaloids in Phalaris tuberosa L. and
P. arundinacea L._ , Culvenor,Dal Bon & Smith<br>
"Australian Journal of Chemistry" 1964, Vol.17 pp.1301-4
_Heterocyclic Compounds, Indoles, Part 2_ Houlihan, Wiley Interscience,
pg264
_Indole alkaloids in plant hallucinogens_ Schultes, Richard Evans<br>
"Journal of Psychedelic Drugs" Jan-Mar 1976 p17
_Plants of the Gods_ Schultes & Hofmann
_Narcotic Plants_ William Emboden
_Tryptamine and Related Compounds in Plants_<br>
Terence A. Smith. "Phytochemistry" Vol. 16 pp. 171-175
_Alkaloid Bearing Plants and Their Alkaloids_<br>
US Dept. Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 1234 (1961) Willaman &
Schubert
Erspamer _???? Drug Res._ 1961,3,151
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