Echinopsis pachanoi: Difference between revisions

 

'''''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.

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" />