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To: SunkenCiv
...including the plants used by Egyptians, all of which have psychotropic and medicinal properties.

What species of plants these were the article doesn't say.

3 posted on 11/16/2024 10:22:18 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

One of them was probably lotus, which was so popular, I think the Egyptians drove it to extinction. It was like when crack users run out of crack today, and try to smoke anything that might be crack because it looks like it — bits of drywall, whatever. :^)


4 posted on 11/16/2024 10:24:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Carry_Okie

I’ll be darned, it’s not extinct. Maybe they just used all of it in Egypt itself.

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/188/7-8/e2689/6338457?login=false


5 posted on 11/16/2024 10:30:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Carry_Okie

There is also evidence that the Egyptian royal elite enjoyed access to tobacco and cocaine from the Western hemisphere.


11 posted on 11/17/2024 12:23:43 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Carry_Okie

Why do you want to know? :)

We have to keep in mind that they had a huge far reaching trade network to other regions. So it could have been some of the already known from other regions. Acacia bark and Syrian Rue was a common hallucinogenic concoction in the middle east. The Amanita Muscaria mushroom was a really big deal all over back then. And I am sure they had opium and others imported.


13 posted on 11/17/2024 1:45:15 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Carry_Okie

There’s a link in the article to the study, which does list the plants identified.


16 posted on 11/17/2024 3:31:32 AM PST by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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To: Carry_Okie

Here is a link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78721-8

Our analyses revealed traces of Peganum harmala, Nimphaea nouchali var. caerulea, and a plant of the Cleome genus, all of which are traditionally proven to have psychotropic and medicinal properties.


Peganum harmala would be Rue tea. They trip on it to this day IIRC.


30 posted on 11/17/2024 6:23:28 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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