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 | | Therefore, unless the vinegar/gall mixture contained harmala, you would either A) have to have a mushroom containing beta carbolines in addition to tryptamines (like ayahuasca); or B) what is more interesting, have to have a tryptamine incorporating a sidechain that funtions as third ring. |
 | | As for A), it's possible; and I don't know, which is why I am publishing this on mayday@onelist and ibogaine@ibogaine.org, hoping the stores of erudition thereon can tell us whether such a mushroom, which would be the functional equibalent of ayahuasca, containing its own betacarbolines in addition to tryptamines, exists. |
 | | Which leaves B) the anokhi mushroom represents an unknown indole ring alkaloid capable-- because it contains a sidechain acting as a third ring--of NMDA activity. |
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