The Sonoran Desert toad can alter your mind - Science News
2023年5月14日 · The Sonoran Desert toad secretes an enzyme that converts bufotenine, a compound also made by other toads, into 5-MeO-DMT, a powerful hallucinogen related to the psychedelic drug DMT.
A Modified Psychedelic Toad Toxin Reduces Signs of Depression …
2024年5月10日 · When threatened or startled, the Colorado River toad (also called the Sonoran desert toad) exudes 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic compound that discourages predators, from glands in its skin.
Psychedelic Toad Venom Is The New Trendy Hallucinogen - Addiction Center
2019年10月11日 · The drug comes from a rare species of toad native to the Sonoran Desert, Bufo Alvarius, which produces a venom known as 5-MeO-DMT: an extremely potent natural psychedelic. 5-MeO-DMT is about four to six times more powerful than its better-known cousin DMT (dimethyltryptamine).
Colorado River toad - Wikipedia
The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius), also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a toad species found in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is well known for its ability to exude toxins from glands within its skin that have psychoactive properties.
Demand for This Toad’s Psychedelic Toxin Is Booming. Some …
2022年3月20日 · In a sign of unintended consequences of the psychedelic resurgence, scientists say that the Sonoran desert toad is at risk of population collapse. A substance in the toad poison, 5-MeO-DMT, can...
From Toad Toxin to Medicine: The Promise of 5-MeO-DMT
2024年6月3日 · While 5-MeO-DMT is the primary compound in the toad’s milky secretion, also known as bufotoxin, the toad harbors lower amounts of components like bufotenine, a weak hallucinogen. Much of the synthetic research has focused on the psychoactive properties of 5-MeO-DMT, and little is known about how much those other components contribute to the ...
The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads - The New Yorker
2022年3月21日 · Kimon de Greef writes about Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, who claims that he has revived a lost ...
5-MeO DMT (Bufo): How powerful is toad venom? - Recovered
2022年8月23日 · The primary organic source of 5-MeO DMT is the Colorado River toad, also called the Sonoran Desert toad, native to northern Mexico and the southwest United States. When threatened, the toad excretes a milky white poison, called bufotoxin, from parotoid glands behind its …
Hallucinogen from Sonoran Desert toad venom shows potential …
2024年5月9日 · The Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius, also known as the Colorado River toad or bufo toad) releases a poison through its skin that contains a psychedelic compound with therapeutic potential....
Toad psychedelic points to biological target for antidepressants
2024年5月8日 · Research into a hallucinogenic compound secreted by a toad has cast light on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics.