МБУДО "ЦДТ №2" г. Барнаула

Psilocin, likewise called 4-hydroxy-N, Psilocine, n-dimethyltryptamine, or psilotsin, hallucinogenic principle contained in particular mushrooms, notably the two Mexican types Psilocybe mexicana and P. cubensis (formerly Stropharia cubensis). Hallucinogenic mushrooms utilized in religious events by Indigenous peoples of Mexico were taken into consideration sacred and also were called «god’s flesh» by the Aztecs. In the 1950s the energetic principles psilocin as well as a carefully related material called psilocybin were isolated from the Mexican mushrooms. As a result of their succeeding recreational misuse, psilocin and psilocybin and the mushrooms which contain them came under strict governing control.Psilocin and also psilocybin are not made use of in modern-day medicine, but research recommends that they might have prospective applications in the therapy of anxiety as well as in the enhancement of quality of life for terminally ill patients. The substances have actually likewise been made use of in human based on better comprehend the impacts of hallucinogens on the brain and also to check out different elements of psychosis, personality, and consciousness.Chemically, psilocin is an indole hallucinogen. It acts by changing the action of serotonin (an indole amine natural chemical) that happens in brain tissue. psilocybe mexicana is among the few species of mushrooms with psilocybin, which additionally generates hallucinogenic truffles.The active principles of P. mexicana and P. cubensis consist of psilocybin and also a carefully relevant substance known as psilocin. Because of their recreational abuse, both psilocybin as well as psilocin, in addition to the mushrooms that contain them, are under regulatory control.