Ever smoked damiana? Very available $17 a pound in herbal/bulk shops.

[ September 25, 2002: Message edited by: BLAKE 3:16 ]

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Ever smoked damiana? Very available $17 a pound in herbal/bulk shops.

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Damiana (Turnera aphrodisiaca) is found throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Its latin name suggests its use as an aphrodisiac.

The ancient Mayans used damiana for "giddiness and loss of balance" as well as for an aphrodisiac.

In the years following the European conquest of Central and South American Damiana has been associated with improving sexual function in both males and females.

In Holland it is reknowned for its sexual enhancing qualities and positive effect on the reproductive organs. The pharmacology of the plant suggests that its alkaloids could have testosterone-like actions.

Damiana is a major component of countless herbal "viagra alternative" remedies, aphrodisiacs, love potions and impotence cures.

Curiously, it is also a pleasant mood enhancer that leaves many people with a feeling of happiness and well-being.

3 or 4 grams of powdered leaf consumed twice daily (in tea, in capsules or otherwise) is a recommended means of manifesting damiana's aphrodisiac qualities.

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COMMON NAMES : Damiana

Below is a link to some experience reports with damiana.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Damiana.shtml

I don't even smoke grass any more but every now and then I am drawn to the Erowid site to follow the experience reports of youthful and sometimes reckless psychonauts. It's there that I first heard of salvia divinorum. A remarkable plant by any account.

Here is a link to info on salvia, oldgoat, and the second link leads to the full vault.

Find experience reports as they're interesting.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia.shtml

I noted that one of the erowid links on salvia (which I've grown in my garden) refers to enhancing the effects with MAOI's. This (monoamino oxidase inhibitor's) is a very old and now rarely used class of anti-depressant. It is rarely used these days because of HIGHLY DANGEROUS, ie: LETHAL interactions with a whole range of other drugs, and some food groups.

Something to consider.

Anyhoo, I may have to sample this damiana

[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: oldgoat ]

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His essay, LSD and Architectural design, describes his experience as an architect and his experience on LSD. He was assigned to redesign a mental hospital. By dropping acid he was able to put himself in the place of someone for whom reality was overwhelming, time and space were confused. He decided that personal privacy, absence of confusing design, and the creation of spatial relations which would lessen anxiety and increase personal voluntary interactions were key to the redesign.

His conclusion reads, " I am firmly convinced that architecture, as a form of expression, can be considered an art only when it reflects an understanding of the perceptions of the designed environment, rather than the perceptions of the architect."

Cures not Wars (pro pot):
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/index.html

Blake, I told you that everything you say reminds me of the Yippies, well here they are, too:
http://free.freespeech.org/yippie/