See Also: psilocybin(dictionary)
psilocybin(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Nernst(dictionary)
Nernst, Walther(medicine)
Nernst potential(medicine)
Nernst equation(medicine)
Nernst's theory(medicine)
Nernst's equation(medicine)
Nernst, Walther Hermann(encyclopedia)

Nernst's theory (medicine) and psilocybin (medicine)


Nernst's theory (medicine)


Nernst's theory


That the passage of an electric current through the tissues causes a dissociation of the ions, with consequent concentration of salts in the solution bathing the cell membranes, the electric stimulus being thereby effected.


psilocybin (medicine)


psilocybin


3-(2-dimethylamino)ethylindol-4-ol dihydrogen phosphate;the N',N' -dimethyl derivative of 4-hydroxytryptamine; obtained from the fruiting bodies of the fungus Psilocybe mexicana and Other species of Psilocybe and Stropharia. Psilocybin is a congener of 5-hydroxytryptamine, with striking central nervous system effects, and is readily hydrolyzed to 4-hydroxybufotenine; used as a hallucinogenic agent (and by Mexican aborigines to induce trances).

Synonym: indocybin.