Khat - Revision history

MDElliottMD: Category taxonomy ship: retag plant categories -> Plants

2026-05-22T00:38:14Z

Category taxonomy ship: retag plant categories -> Plants

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	[[Category:Excitantia]]		[[Category:Excitantia]]
	[[Category:~~Plant Medicines~~]]		[[Category:Plants]]
	[[Category:Medicines]]		[[Category:Medicines]]

Maintenance script: Pendell's corner: swap to selected option (Dynamis, p. 143)

2026-05-15T22:59:05Z

Pendell's corner: swap to selected option (Dynamis, p. 143)

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	{{PendellsCorner		{{PendellsCorner
	\| quote = ~~Khat, chat, qat~~. ~~The Flower of Paradise~~.		\| quote = "About like five milligrams of methamphetamine." But more euphoric and much shorter acting.
	\| volume = Dynamis		\| volume = Dynamis
			\| page = 143
	}}		}}

Maintenance script: Pendell's corner: replace paraphrase with verbatim passage (Dynamis)

2026-05-15T21:56:06Z

Pendell's corner: replace paraphrase with verbatim passage (Dynamis)

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	{{PendellsCorner		{{PendellsCorner
	\| quote = ~~In the Horn of Africa and across the Yemeni highlands~~, ~~the leaf is chewed fresh — the alkaloids are unstable~~, ~~the harvest is daily, the social rhythm of the chew is the substance of an afternoon~~. ~~Cathinone is amphetamine's older, gentler cousin; the leaf is its old, gentler context. Out~~ of ~~context — extracted, exported, dried — the leaf is a different relationship~~.		\| quote = Khat, chat, qat. The Flower of Paradise.
	\| volume = Dynamis		\| volume = Dynamis
	~~\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage~~
	}}		}}

Maintenance script: Add Pendell's corner (Dynamis)

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Add Pendell's corner (Dynamis)

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	\| seealso = [[Methcathinone]], [[Amphetamine]], [[Cathinone]]		\| seealso = [[Methcathinone]], [[Amphetamine]], [[Cathinone]]
	\| references = <references/>		\| references = <references/>
			}}

			{{PendellsCorner
			\| quote = In the Horn of Africa and across the Yemeni highlands, the leaf is chewed fresh — the alkaloids are unstable, the harvest is daily, the social rhythm of the chew is the substance of an afternoon. Cathinone is amphetamine's older, gentler cousin; the leaf is its old, gentler context. Out of context — extracted, exported, dried — the leaf is a different relationship.
			\| volume = Dynamis
			\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage
	}}		}}

MDElliottMD: Create skeletal Plant Medicines page from Pendell

2026-05-15T17:57:22Z

Create skeletal Plant Medicines page from Pendell

New page

{{MedTemplate
| generic = Khat
| brand = ''Catha edulis''. Chat, qat, the Flower of Paradise
| classes = Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Cathinone source
| uses = <vote slug="alertness-use">Alertness</vote>, <vote slug="social-stimulant-use">Social stimulant</vote>
| starting_dose = A ''marduuf'' bundle (~50 g fresh leaves) chewed over a couple of hours
| preparations = Fresh leaves and tender twigs chewed; degrades on drying
| routes = Oral (buccal absorption)
| onset = 15–30 min
| duration = 2–4 h
| mechanism = Primary alkaloid is (S)-(-)-cathinone, a phenylpropanolamine close kin to amphetamine. Releases dopamine and norepinephrine. Also contains cathine (=norpseudoephedrine) and norephedrine.
| intro = Khat is the fresh leaf of ''Catha edulis'' (Celastraceae), chewed daily by a large fraction of the population in Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, and the Horn of Africa. Cathinone is roughly equivalent to ~5 mg methamphetamine per chewing session, but more euphoric and short-acting. Yemen devotes ~40% of its arable land to khat cultivation.
| legal = Schedule I in US since 1993 (despite traditional use elsewhere); legal in Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti
| seealso = [[Methcathinone]], [[Amphetamine]], [[Cathinone]]
| references = <references/>
}}

[[Category:Excitantia]]
[[Category:Plant Medicines]]
[[Category:Medicines]]