Bufo alvarius
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Animal Medicine, Phantastica
Bufo alvarius
Sonoran Desert Toad, Colorado River Toad
Bufo alvarius is the only toad whose parotid-gland venom contains 5-MeO-DMT in psychoactively significant quantities. (The cane toad, Bufo marinus, has bufotenine and cardiotoxic bufosteroids instead.) Native to the Sonoran Desert. The dried venom ("toad smoke") is one of the most powerful entheogens known — onset in seconds, full peak in ~5 min, baseline restored within 15.
5-MeO-DMT, DMT, Anadenanthera
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Summary
Classes
Animal Medicine, Phantastica
Common uses
Visionary0
Pharmacy
Preparations
Parotid-gland venom expressed onto a glass plate, dried into a shellac-like resin, vaporized and inhaled
Pharmacology
Routes
Inhalation (vaporized)
Onset
Seconds
Duration
~15 min
Legal status
5-MeO-DMT is Schedule I in US (since 2011); the toad itself is protected in several southwestern states
Purported mechanism
5-MeO-DMT is a potent 5-HT1A agonist (greater than 5-HT2A). Distinct from N,N-DMT in producing a more unitive, less visual, often ego-dissolving experience.
“Pendell's corner
The Sonoran Desert toad — Incilius alvarius, formerly Bufo — is one of the few animals whose chemistry has been pressed into psychedelic use. The dried gland yields 5-MeO-DMT; the smoke yields the shortest journey. The toad gives, and the population pays — the recent fashion is doing the species no favors.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Gnosis
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