DMT
DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a naturally occurring chemical. DMT is present in both plants and animals, and is thought to be found in tiny quantities in the pineal gland of the human brain.
There are many labels that refer to DMT and other substances of its ilk (like LSD, mushrooms, and the San Pedro and Peyote cacti): ‘Hallucinogen’, ‘psychedelic’ and ‘entheogen’ are a few. Many users of DMT argue that the latter term is a more appropriate reference. ‘Entheogen’ is a term derived from Greek word ‘entheos’ and it translates to “having God (theos) within”. When describing DMT as an entheogen, a person is suggesting that the chemical generates ‘God’ or ‘the divine’ within themselves, or is said to be in direct communion with this energy.
DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a naturally occurring chemical. DMT is present in both plants and animals, and is thought to be found in tiny quantities in the pineal gland of the human brain.
There are many labels that refer to DMT and other substances of its ilk (like LSD, mushrooms, and the San Pedro and Peyote cacti): ‘Hallucinogen’, ‘psychedelic’ and ‘entheogen’ are a few. Many users of DMT argue that the latter term is a more appropriate reference. ‘Entheogen’ is a term derived from Greek word ‘entheos’ and it translates to “having God (theos) within”. When describing DMT as an entheogen, a person is suggesting that the chemical generates ‘God’ or ‘the divine’ within themselves, or is said to be in direct communion with this energy.
The terms ‘psychedelic’ and ‘hallucinogenic’ tend to have deprecating connotations, for various cultural and historical reasons. ‘Entheogen’ is used by those who consider substances like DMT to be divine sacraments that bring about transcendent experiences. Mainstream media channels tend to refer to DMT as a drug, but this doesn’t sit well in the counterculture due to the quality of experience the substance consistently seems to provide.
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Consumption of DMT
Users usually smoke DMT or drink it as part of the Amazonian brew known as ayahuasca. Sometimes it is prepared in other brews that have similar effects to ayahuasca, and these are known as ‘analogue’ brews. Analogues are plants or chemicals that are used instead of the traditional Banisteriopsis Caapi vine in an ayahuasca brew.
For example, DMT might be mixed with visionary plant peganum harmala (Syrian Rue), Mimosa Hostilis for similar effects to ayahuasca. This has been dubbed ‘anahuasca’. Another possibility for consumption of DMT is through smoking the secretions of the Bufo Alvarius toad (5-MeO-Dimethyltryptamine), although this is said to result in a different experience to the previous methods.
It is possible to find DMT in certain psychoactive snuffs (as per its original use), including Peruvian Vilca, which contains bufotenin, DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. DMT has also been administered intravenously during studies such as Dr. Rick Strassman’s back in 1990.
In Chavín, Peru, a place rich in entheogenic history, carved heads depict mucus pouring from their nostrils, indicating the use of psychedelic snuff. Here there were also material finds including bone sniffing tubes and snuff trays; this is considerable evidence of an ancient snuff culture, and the likelihood of the snuff containing DMT is high. Today there are still many forms of rapé (Amazonian snuff made from various plants) that contain DMT.
The Amazonian Yanomami tribe has long embraced the tradition of blowing powdered Virola tree bark resin up each others’ nostrils. Where many use small pipes to administer rapé, this tribe prefers to use blowpipes that are six feet long. Another commonly used DMT-containing snuff is that produced from the Anadenanthera colubrina tree that grows on the eastern Andean mountains and in the highlands around Kotosh. This snuff is favoured by Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian tribes, and relatively recently (in many Amazonian areas) this snuff has replaced ayahuasca as the most popular method of ingesting DMT.
When extracted from plants, DMT forms crystals that can be smoked (in pipes or bongs), or more recently, vaped. Another smokable form of DMT is ‘changa’, made from extracts of DMT-containing plants that have been combined with different herbs. It is also different in that it contains an MAOI plant, often the ayahuasca vine (or leaf) itself. Some refer to it as ‘smokable ayahuasca’ because of this, and it generally contains between 20 and 50% DMT. The Global Drug Survey of 2012 (consisting of 22,000 respondents) found that 92% smoked DMT as an herbal mixture rather than consuming it in an ayahuasca brew. However, this may be down to the ease of acquisition and/or cost; today the popularity of ayahuasca ceremonies is increasing at a considerable rate, all around the world.
Plants that contain DMT
- Acacia Confusa/Acacia longifolia
- Acacia maidenii: DMT in bark at 0.36%; 5-MeO-DMT in trace amounts
- Acacia obtusifolia (= A. intertexta): DMT in bark at 0.1–0.7%; 5-MeO-DMT possibly present in trace amounts
- Acacia phlebophylla: DMT leaf at 0.3%
- Acacia simplicifolia: DMT in bark at 0.81%
- Anadenanthera peregrina: DMT in immature seeds at 0.16%; 5-MeO-DMT in roots 0.678%
- Desmanthus illinoensis: DMT in root-bark at 0.34%
- Diplopterys cabrerana (chaliponga): DMT in leaf at 1.46%; 5-MeO-DMT in leaf and dried stem in trace amounts
- Meliocope leptococca (= Evodia leptococca): 5-MeO-DMT in aerial parts 0.21%
- Mimosa tenuiflora (= M. hostilis): DMT in root-bark at 0.31–11%
- Phalaris aquatica: 5-MeO-DMT in leaf at 0.01–0.28%
- Phalaris aquatica cv. AQ-1: DMT at 1+%; 5-MeO-DMT in trace amounts
- Phalaris arundinacea P.I. 172442 Turkey (cv. Turkey Red): 5-MeO-DMT in leaf is the predominant alkaloid from a total wetweight alkaloid range of 0.0025–0.045%
- Pilocarpus organensis: 5-MeO-DMT in leaf at 0.41% (Caution: Shulgin & Shulgin 1997 and Ott 1994 both pointed out that other species of Pilocarpus are known to contain the poisonous cholinergic chemical pilocarpine.)
- Psychotria carthaginensis: DMT in leaf 0.0–0.65%
- Psychotria viridis (chacruna): DMT in leaf 0.1–0.34%
- Virola calophylla: DMT in leaf at 0.15%; 5-MeO-DMT in bark at trace amounts
- Virola rufula: DMT in bark at 0.19%; 5-MeO-DMT in bark at trace amounts
- Virola theiodora: DMT in bark at 0.003–0.25%; DMT in flowering shoots at 0.44%; 5-MeO-DMT in bark at 0.11%
These are used as admixture plants in an ayahuasca or ‘anahuasca’ brew.
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