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Fungus used to make LSD
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The ergot is a small callosity on the underside of the fetlock of a horse or other equine . Some equines have them on all four fetlocks; others have few or no detectable ergots. In horses, the ergot varies from very small to the size of a pea or bean, larger ...
Usage examples of ergot.
The fool Klysterman was in charge of the carbon dioxide unit that cornered and destroyed the ergot fungus beside the reactor pool.
A technician, in feeding the augmented wheat rust this morning, discovered unwittingly that the ergot has, as predicted, now developed the capacity to generate effective lysergic acid derivatives.
God knows what reality is for Klysterman now, wrapped up in lysergic ergot like a lungfish in mud.
There are other plants that can help her lose the baby early if she needs to, ergot is only one.
She put some hot stones in a bowl of water to make an infusion of ergot for Ayla.
Perhaps it would help Talut, she thought, though from the sound of his complaints she wondered if the preparation of ergot she made for particularly bad headaches might be better.
Ergot, in teaspoonful doses of the fluid extract, hamamelis, and gallic acid, all are valuable for this purpose.
There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.
And bright and gay as Amsel made him, Potrimpos, the forever laughing youth with the ear of wheat between his teeth, brought in only a single gulden, although Potrimpos protects summer and winter seed against corn cockle, charlock and wild mustard, against couchgrass, vetches, spurry, and ergot.
Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.
And bright and gay as Amsel made him, Potrimpos, the forever laughing youth with the ear of wheat between his teeth, brought in only a single gulden, although Potrimpos protects summer and winter seed against corn cockle, charlock and wild mustard, against couchgrass, vetches, spurry, and ergot.
The suggested culprit was ergot, which comes from a mold called Claviceps purpurea.
Well, it would have been something like that because ergot contains lysergic acid amide, which is the prime ingredient of LSD.
Ergot was a black blight that grew on rye and women used it to abort their young.
Could you honestIy say for 100 percent certain that this ergot is what made the general fly off that building, or the German fella dive into that bread dough?