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'''Echinopsis pachanoi''', also known as '''Trichocereus pachanoi''' or '''San pedro cactus''', is a fast-growing columnar cactus that founds in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. It contains psychoactive alkaloids like [[mescaline]].
 
'''''Echinopsis pachanoi''''' (also known as '''''Trichocereus pachanoi''''' or '''San Pedro cactus''') is a fast-growing columnar cactus native to Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.{{citation needed}} It contains [[mescaline]] and other psychoactive alkaloids.
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Echinopsis_pachanoi.jpg|Sanpedro flower
Echinopsis_pachanoi.jpg|Sanpedro flower
Starr_070320-5799_Echinopsis_pachanoi.jpg|Wild Echinopsis pachanoi in nature
Starr_070320-5799_Echinopsis_pachanoi.jpg|Wild ''Echinopsis pachanoi'' in nature
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==Chemistry==
==Chemistry==
San pedro has 93.5 percent water by it's weight.<ref>Poisson 1960</ref> 0.025%+ of Mescaline<ref name=a1969b>Agurell 1969b</ref> Trace amount of tyramine<ref name=a1969a>Agurell 1969a</ref><ref name=a1969b>, 0.01% of 3-Methoxytyramine by dry weight<ref>Crosby &
San Pedro is 93.5% water by weight.<ref name="po">{{cite journal | vauthors=((Poisson, J.)) | journal=Annales Pharmaceutiques Francaises | title=[Presence of mescaline in a Peruvian Cactaceae] | volume=18 | pages=764–765 | date= October 1960 | issn=0003-4509}}</ref> 0.025%+ of Mescaline<ref name="a1969b">{{cite journal | vauthors=((Agurell, S.)), ((Holmstedt, B.)), ((Lindgren, J.-E.)), ((Schultes, R. E.)), ((Lindberg, A. A.)), ((Jansen, G.)), ((Lamm, B.)), ((Samuelsson, B.)) | journal=Acta Chemica Scandinavica | title=Alkaloids in Certain Species of Virola and Other South American Plants of Ethnopharmacologic Interest. | volume=23 | pages=903–916 | date= 1969 | url=http://actachemscand.org/doi/10.3891/acta.chem.scand.23-0903 | issn=0904-213X | doi=10.3891/acta.chem.scand.23-0903}}</ref> Trace amount of tyramine, 0.01% of 3-Methoxytyramine by dry weight,<ref name=":0">{{cite journal | vauthors=((Crosby, D. M.)), ((McLaughlin, J. L.)) | journal=Lloydia | title=Cactus alkaloids. XIX. Crystallization of mescaline HCl and 3-methoxytyramine HCl from Trichocereus pachanoi | volume=36 | issue=4 | pages=416–418 | date= December 1973 | issn=0024-5461}}</ref> Trace amount of Hordenine, 3,4-Dimethoxyphenethylamine, 3-Hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine,<ref name="a1969b"></ref> 4-Hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, anhalonidine and anhalinine.<ref name=":0" />
McLaughlin 1973</ref>, Trace amount of Hordenine<ref name=a1969b>,  
 
==See also==
==See also==
* [[Mescaline]]
 
* [[Echinopsis peruviana (botany)|Echinopsis peruviana (Peruvian torch)]]
*[[Mescaline]]
* [[Echinopsis lageniformis (botany)|Echinopsis lageniformis (Bolivian torch)]]
*[[Echinopsis peruviana (botany)|''Echinopsis peruviana'' (Peruvian torch)]]
*[[Echinopsis lageniformis (botany)|''Echinopsis lageniformis'' (Bolivian torch)]]
*[[Simple mescaline brewing technique]]


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopsis_pachanoi Echinopsis pachanoi (Wikipedia)]
 
*[https://erowid.org/plants/cacti/cacti.shtml E. pachanoi & E. peruviana (Erowid)]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopsis_pachanoi ''Echinopsis pachanoi'' (Wikipedia)]
*[https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Cacti.shtml E. pachanoi & E. peruviana experiences (Erowid)]
*[https://erowid.org/plants/cacti/cacti.shtml ''E. pachanoi'' & ''E. peruviana'' (Erowid Vault)]
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*[https://drugs-forum.com/wiki/San_Pedro San Pedro (Drugs-Forum)]
[[Category:Cactus]]
 
==References==
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