title: [Psychotropic mushrooms and plants].
abstract: There are a lot of medical applications of psychotropic plants. However, there are many more mushrooms and plants with psychotropic effects considered useless by scholar medicine. The resulting regulations make the users criminal law breakers. Depending on the Zeitgeist there had been experiments with hallucinogenics in a medical setting. Normally psychotropic mushrooms and plants play no role in medical practice. However, the use of datura by youths can lead to emergency situations, so this problem will be dealt in more details.
authors.affiliation: Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern, Direktion Sozial- und Gemeindepsychiatrie. haemmig@spk.unibe.ch
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Hämmig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006213:Hallucinogens / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D009145:Mushroom Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010947:Plants, Toxic / Q000633:toxicity*; D012307:Risk Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D006213:Hallucinogens