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Coriaria thymifolia
Ground Toot; Shanshi;
Ecclesiastes 3:1 "There is a time and a purpose for everything under the heavens."
Nicknames: Ground Toot;[2] Shanshi;[2] Maoris tutu-papa[4] or tutu-heu-heu[4]
Ethnobotany: Coriaria thymifolia produces a poison called "tutin", "tutu", or the "toot poison", which is the active principle of several species of Coriaria.[4] It's found in New Zealand.[4] Unfortunately, careless consumption of this species has led to many deaths.[4] Ground toot as it is called, is well known by the local Maoris peoples.[4] The Maoris use the fruit to make a non-intoxicating beverage.[4]
Classification: Medicinal[2] Narcotic[3](in Ecuador); Poison;[3]
Antidote: Lime; | [4] Echinacea purpurea;
Plant Family: Coriariaceae;[1] On Wikipedia, this plant and Coriaria ruscifolia are shown to be synonyms for one another.
Natural Habitat: Mexico. Michoacán.[1] It grows wild in open pine forest on lower slopes of small volcanic slopes.[1] It's also found in New Zealand[4] It also found in extreme parts of the southern US and Mexico.[4]
Legality: 100% Legal in the US.
OG Observations: I want people to know that judging an ethnobotanical takes discernment, and can be confusing. Not all narcotics are poisonous, and not all psychoactives get you high. Not all hallucinogens are safe and non-toxic either. This plant just happens to be both a poison and a narcotic.[3] This means that it falls under psychoactive poison, which in my opinion would make it a dilerant.
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Phytochemicals:
Coriamyrtin;[4] Coriamyrtin is a crystalline glucoside in the pikrotoxin group of poisons.[4] Tutin[4] Tutin is ranked as one of the most poisonous of organic substances in existence.[4] Tutin is far more resistant to heat than other poisons as well.[4]What is Phytochemistry? What are Phytochemicals?
Phytochemistry is the study of the pharmacological phytochemicals that herbal remedies produce in nature. Phytochemicals are the pharmacological chemicals that these plants consistently produce, as if they are little pharmaceutical factories. The process of phytosynthesis, harnesses power from the sun, and that energy is then utilized in the production of these natural pharmaceuticals, basically. Modern medicine merely creates less effective, more dangerous "knock offs", rather than sharing the best medicine with the world. The occult is seeking to hide and oppress the best medicine on the planet, while pushing their poisonous versions on the rest of us, aka pharmakeia. I expose this in a great blog I wrote called Modern Medicines Connection To The OccultPharmacological / Medicinal Properties:
An academic source that I cite goes into details on how to make this drug known as "tutu"(which is poisonous).[4] It's colorless, odorless, and volatile, with an intense and long lasting bitter taste.[4] It triggers the chemical reactions of a glucoside.[4] Coriamyrtin and tutin are very similar phytochemicals... Both produce salvation, and a reduction in the pulse, an increase in respiratory activity, following by convulsions.[4] It's believed that the effects produced by these poisons act on the medulla oblongata and basal ganglia parts of the brain.[4] Poisons such as thing can be used as medicine, believe it or not. In pharmacology, there's something called the "Arndt Schultz Law", that states: any poison in a dilute enough dosage, has beneficial effects on life processes.[5][6] This means that poisons when used in tiny enough dosages can have medicinal properties, like how Penicilin is used to treat infections, even though it's a deadly poison. Remember the nature of the effects produced by the poison tutin, because in alternative medicine, "like cures like"[7] That means the patient would take a drug that induces the same effects that you're seeking to treat. This is a medical rule.Buy Coriaria thymifolia
Academic citations:
[2] https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/plant-coriaria-thymifolia Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[3] Schultes, R. E. (1972). From witch doctor to modern medicine: searching the American tropics for potentially new medicinal plants. Arnoldia, 32(5), 198-219.
[4] Ford, William W. "On the Toxicology of the Tutu Plant." Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2.1 (1910): 73-85. [url]
[5] Sharma, Rajneesh Kumar. "Arndt Schultz Law and Its Applications."
[6] Law, Arndt–Schultz. "Homeopathy:: Arndt Schultz Law and its applications in Homoeopathy."
[6] Tedesco, Paula, and Jane Cicchetti. "Like cures like: homeopathy." AJN The American Journal of Nursing 101.9 (2001): 43-49.
Encyclopedia Sources:
Other resources:
M.A.P.S. Ethnobotanical Studies By Scholars
PubChem - pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov