Welcome to the on-line version of
Sacred Cacti 4th edition, Part A!
Part A is not yet available as a PDF but that will be changing in the future. Creating this webpage has nicely enhanced the book so those new additions are being incorporated into the PDF-to-come.
2015 4th Edition
Sacred Cacti Part A:
The Mescaline Containing Species
Huachuma (bona fide Trichocereus pachanoi) growing in a shaman’s garden in Peru.
Table of Contents
I hope that you enjoy this. Almost all of the basic material has been added. There is one chapter that is still in the process of being completed and both sections of the introductory material (Opening Comments and Chapter 1) need to be brought out of the 1990s and into our modern New World.
I’ll post a note whenever those changes occur.
Abbreviations
IMPORTANT
Disclaimer & Cautionary Statement to Readers
It is actually to your benefit if you read this.
Opening comments
[Excerpted from 2nd ed. as PDF]
Endnotes for Opening comments
Chapter One – The drug wars; some background and perspectives
Endnotes for Chapter One
A Few Similarities between the Drug Wars and the Witch Craze (after Szasz)
(Part of Chapter 1) [Drug War compared to Witch Craze PDF ]
Chapter Two – The Peyote ‘crisis’ and some suggestions. “Revisited”
[The first part of this revision is already online; the rest is coming soon!]
Chapter Three – The distribution and occurrences of mescaline
The reported distribution of mescaline containing species within the family Cactaceae
A more recent view
Comments on the occurrence & distribution of mescaline
Distribution of alkaloids within cacti
Chapter Four the Mescaline Containing Species
Aztekium ritteri (Bödeker) Bödeker
The Gymnocalycium species
Islaya minor Backeberg
The Lophophora species
Lophophora caespitosa
Lophophora decipiens Croizat
Lophophora diffusa (Croizat) H. Bravo
Lophophora echinata Croizat
Lophophora fricii Habermann
Lophophora jourdaniana Habermann
Lophophora koehresii (Ríha) Bohata et al.
Will the real Lewinii please stand up?
Lophophora lutea
“Other” peyote species (pentagona, rapa, texensis, viridescens, etc.)
The Lophophora pentagona name game
Lophophora williamsii (Lemaire ex Salm–Dyck) Coulter
Archaic peyote, some beans and a rock
the genus Opuntia
Pelecyphora aselliformis Ehrenberg
Pereskia Mill.
Pereskiopsis Britton & Rose
Polaskia chende (Gosselin) Gibson & Horak
Pterocereus (?) gaumeri (Britton & Rose) MacDougall & Miranda
The Stenocereus species
Stetsonia coryne (Salm–Dyck) Britton & Rose
The Turbinicarpus species
Errors, Unknowns and Lingering Questions
Occurrence of Mescaline Endnotes
Chapter Five Mescaline
has become part of The Cactus Alkaloids.
[3 Dec. 2013 PDF 27.7 mb]
Chapter Six Mescaline Pharmacology
has become part of The Cactus Alkaloids.
[3 Dec. 2013 PDF 27.7 mb]
Chapter Seven the Cultivation & Propagation of Cacti
is now a separate booklet. [PDF]
Appendices:
The sections concerning Assays for, Colorimetric reactions of and the Reagents useful for mescaline have all been moved to the mescaline entry within The Cactus Alkaloids. [3 Dec. 2013 PDF 27.7 mb] Useful Manipulation Abstracts is also being moved to The Cactus Alkaloids but this has not yet occurred.