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Friday, March 5, 2010

What is Jungle Spice?


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Extract the alkaloids from mimosa hostilis root bark, pull away the DMT, and you are left with a mysterious substance known in the community as 'Jungle Spice'. Jungle Spice is described as resembling a piece of red crayon and it appears to have some psychoactive properties.

We can be sure that Jungle Spice is no one alkaloid, but and impure mixture of several alkaloids found in mimosa hostilis. Apart from DMT, mimosa hostilis is known to contain several alkaloids. One of the most interesting is kokusaginine, which may compete with DMT for monoamine oxidase in the stomach, allowing the DMT to pass into the bloodstream. IT seems reasonable to assume that this is on the constituents of Jungle Spice.

In addition, there are kukulkan-A and kukulkan-B, two novel alkaloids which have been reportedly extracted from mimosa hostilis (though Jonathan Ott says that it was in fact Mexican tepescohuite "misreported" as mimosa hostilis.

Entropymancer, a member of the DMT-Nexus, has done a heroic job of compiling different reports on Jungle Spice. Check out his article for more info.

Lacking a proper mass spectrometry reading, we can't be sure what exactly Jungle Spice is. However, we can be sure it will continure to interest members of the psychedelic community, largely because of its unknown character.