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Mescal is a strong intoxicating spirit distilled
from PULQUE FUERTE. Pulque is made from the Agave Americana of Mexico,
locally known as Maguey and is the national beverage of Mexico.
Indians call it Peyote.
It weakens the heart, produces insanity, and causes
a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably
beautiful and varied kaleidoscopic changes, and a sensation of increased
physical ability. Also visions of monsters and various gruesome
forms.
The symptoms are:
Awareness, of body heightened.
Confusion of mind, as to his identify, depersonalisation,
loss of self-knowledge and self-control, dissocation from or self
identification with environment, personal disruption.
Confusion of mind, of situations.
Decomposition, of shape.
Decomposition, of space.
Deformation, of all objects.
Delusions, body is immaterial.
Delusions, objects are enlarged and diminished.
Delusions, letter are enlarged.
Delusions, everything is transparent.
Delusions, has visions colourful.
Delusions, beautiful.
Dream, escape in a world of dreams.
Light, sees full of.
Merging of self with one’s environment.
Mistakes in time, present merged with eternity.
Music, sensation of being carried by.
Delusions, of being double.
Delusions, he himself was dead.
Delusions, sees faces mask-like.
Delusions, floating in air.
Delusions, of immortality.
Delusions, he hears music.
Delusions, from bright objects.
Delusions, everything is strange.
Delusions, exaggeration of, passes too slowly.
Delusions, everything seems unreal.
The above symptoms help us to understand the mental
picture of Anhalonium. The feature which predominates is the lack
of their ego-limits and the intense hallucinational experiences.
The person has lost his limits in reference to place and time. He
feels that there is no barrier between him and the environment.
He feels that he is invisible, that he is like a spirit, without
a material substance. He has lost his shape.
The space’s substance reality is lost. The substance
of time is lost too. The present is mixed with the past, some seconds
look like centuries, or a period of an hour seems like a second.
The objects change in reference to shape and size. Everything is
out of reality, everything exists in an another dimension. He sees
objects shining.
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