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Three New Indole Alkaloids from Tabernaemontana divaricata.

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Amanita muscaria (fly agaric): from a shamanistic hallucinogen to the search for acetylcholine.

The mushroom Amanita muscaria, historically used as a fly poison, contains four hallucinogenic compounds. Eastern Siberian shamans have used it as a hallucinogen and inebriant. Henry Dale and Otto Loewi discovered that muscarine was not the transmitter at parasympathetic nerve endings, but acetylcholine was. The receptor is called cholinergic or muscarinic. This knowledge has helped develop drugs like pilocarpine and ipratropium that are used for glaucoma and lung diseases.

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