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The peyote cult

Note 7 — APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE

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Dixon (W. E.), The Physiological Action, 79-81. Rouhier (op. cit., 268-69): “Intoxication by peyote in man comprises two very distinct phases, one, general superexcitement, contentment; euphoria, the other of nervous sedation, of more or less accentuated physical indolence, and of hypocerebrality; this last phase is almost entirely filled with the production of color-visions.” Henry (op. cit., 199) likens this preliminary stage to alcoholic intoxication.

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