Lysergic Acid Am-idesWonderful Discovery; Plant Sources of LSA:

In 1959, the ethnobotanist Rich-ard Schultes sent samples of a cultivated Mexican morning glory, Turbina corymbosa, to Al-bert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD.  Schultes had seen it used by a Zapotec shaman.  In 1960, Hoffman analyzed the seeds and said they contained ergot-like al-kaloids. This was hard for people to believe since previously such chemicals had only been found in the rye fungus Claviceps pur-purea (ergot).  But Hoffman was right; the seeds contained d-

lysergic acid amide.  This differs from LSD only in that it has a NH2 where LSD has a N(C2H5)2, but LSD is some 50 to 100 times as potent.  The morning glory Turbina corym-bosa's seeds also have other psy-choactive alkaloids in them: d-isolysergic acid amide, chano-clavine, elymoclavine, and ly-sergol.  

In 1960, Don Thomes Mac-Dougall reported that seeds of another morning glory, Ipomoea

violacea were used as sacra-ments by certain Zapotecs, sometimes with the Turbina co-rymbosa seeds and sometimes not.  This morning glory species is the one with familiar varieties in America: Heavenly Blue, Pearly Gates, Flying Saucers, Blue Star, Summer Skies and Wedding Bells. The Ipomoea violacea has the same psychoac-tive compounds in it except with ergometrine instead of lysergol.  Ergometrine has strong uterus-stimulating properties so it's a

really bad idea for pregnant women to eat these seeds.  Also, these seeds are supposed to be bad for people with liver prob-lems (e.g. jaundice, hepatitus).  These seeds are called badoh ne-gro down in South America, since they are black, and some people think these were the mys-terious tlitliltzin, which is the Nahuatl word for "black" with a reverential suffix.

Indications and Dosage

(LSA (ergine) is 1/10th as Po-tent as LSD-25 by weight):

Threshhold0.2 mg

Common0.5- 1.5 mg

Strong1.5 - 4.0 mg

Heavy4.0 mg

Do Not DoseMore Than 4.0mg

Onset: 2 Hours or so to peak.Duration : 10 - 14 hoursNormal After Effects : up to 24

1 MG (I. violacea) seed has about 0.01mg LSA.1 HBWR seed has about 0.25mg LSA

WARNING: Has uterus-stimulating properties. DO NOT USE IF PREGNANT!

NOTE: Ergine: to get 1 good " Hit"* we need 100ug x 10 = 1mg ergine(ergine is 1/10 potency of LSD). Thus we need 1.36 g of MG seeds (~100 seeds)for one good hit, or 0.74 grams of HBWR seeds (~4 seeds).

*1960's LSD was on average 100ug per hit.

"I would agree, if you state that 200ug of LSD is the fully hallu-cinogenic dose, the 5 HBWR in-

gested was really close to 100-125ug.  I agree that each seed is equal to 25ug of LSD.

I would make the comparison between HBWR and Morning Glory, the same as I would ALD-52, and LSD-25.  The HBWR was much less somatically in-toxicating and not speedy.

Based on this experience, I would project that 8 seeds would be a good trip, and 10-12 would be a "rock and roll trip"... and

14-16 would be "intense as hell," but possibility of alkaloid ef-fects."

~~~~The Mystery Man 

MG: Morning Glory: Ipomoea violecea, nil, purpurpea etc.

vs

HBWR: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose: Argyreia nervosa

Major Alkaloid Content in the Morning Glory seeds.LAA% ; Total Alks. % by weight

Ololiuqui: 0.02; 0.04

Heavenly Blue: See Below*

Pearly Gates: 0.02; 0.03

Wedding Bells: 0.01; 0.03

Taken from : Isolation and Iden-tification of Lysergic Acid Amide and Isolysergic Acid Amide as the Principal Ergoline Alkaloids in _Argyreia nervosa_, a tropical wood rose. Michael D. Miller (Bureau of Narcotics and Dan-gerous Drugs (cool how do I get his job?). Journal of the AOAC, vol 53(1):123-7, 1970.

*MG: Heavenly Blue (I. violacea) alkaloid per-centages:

d-Lysergic acid amide (er-gine) = 0.035%d-Isolysergic acid amide (isoergine) = 0.005%Chanoclavine = 0.005%

Elymoclavine = 0.005%Lysergol = ---%Ergometrine* = 0.005%Total alkaloids = 0.060%

*Ergometrine has uterus-stimulating properties. DO NOT USE IF PREGNANT!

ETHNOBOTANY; Evolution of Discipline,edited by Shultes and von Reis...from page 316, chapter written by Albert Hofmann:

NOTE: 1 (I. violacea) Seed has about 0.01mg LSA.

Seeds may lose potency with age and temperature of stor-age.

Note: the MG shell contains cy-anogenic glycosides which can make you really sick if you eat enough (same kind of stuff in apple seeds) use an extraction process.

Major Alkaloid Content in the seeds of A. nervosa

% of Total alkaloid; % dry seed weight

Ergine = 22.68% ; 0.136% Isoergine = 31.36% ; 0.188% Ergometrine* = 8.20% ; 0.049% Lys. alpha-OH-ethylamide = 5.79% ; 0.035% IsoLys. = 3.98 % ; 0.024%

*Ergometrine has uterus-stimulating properties. DO NOT USE IF PREGNANT!

Ergoline Alkaloidal Constituents of Hawaiian Baby Wood Rose, _Argyreia nervosa_ (Burm. f.) Bojer. Jew-Ming Chao and Ara H. Der Marderosian. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 62(4):588-91. 1973.

NOTE: 1 HBWR seed has about 0.25mg LSA

HBWR: To dose, you don't have to remove all the shell, but just the dark-brown" stuff off loosely on the seed.  Then

use the following method:  Grind the seeds up or crush really well.  Then soak the crushed/ground seeds in puri-fied water for about 24 hours.  After the 24 hours, strain off the seed mass from the liquid using pantyhose, a sieve, cheesecloth, or if nothing else is available a coffee filter.  

Then to dose, drink the "tea" very slowly over a period of 20-40 minutes, and either drink a small glass of water, or a few

large "gulps" after each sip of the "tea."  This process re-moves the "toxins" and re-duces or negates the nausea sometimes associated with tak-ing LSA containing seeds.

Note: the fuzzy "dark-brown" coating on the outside contains cyanogenic glycosides which can make you really sick if you eat enough (same kind of stuff in apple seeds).

NOTE:  You MUST use cold purified water for this process.  Tap water contains chemicals that break down the desired alkaloids.  Hot water also does this.

Seeds may lose potency with age and temperature of stor-age.