Oral Bufotenin(?) experience shared in Michael Peter Langevin's book. Question

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Hi All,

I just read the book Secrets of the Amazon Shamans by Michael Peter Langevin. In it the author describes an experience in the rainforest where a shaman treats him.
In the treatment the shaman sucks out a green colored saliva from the authors inflamed body part. He then proceeds to mix the saliva with the excretion of a "magic toad" he keeps in a bowl.
He then proceeds to boil the saliva toad excretion mix. He then dries it mixes it with ash, rolls it into a small ball and tells the author to keep it in his mouth and suck on it until it dissolves.
Upon doing that the author reports a very strong experience where he turns into several different animals. Upon waking up his inflammation illness is gone.

I was wondering about the oral part of the toad venom preparation. in the book, the author assumes that the boiling process removes the "poisonous" aspects of the toad venom and renders it safe for consumption.
What do you guys think? Is that a realistic description and action mechanism?
I know there is a lot of info missing like the species of the toad and the actual psychedlic compounds. At the same time it seems to be a bufotenin/5-Meo type excretion based on the experience report and the fact that there are many species of "psychedelic" toads...

 

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Definitely file this one under "apocryphal", but it does sound like a possible viable approach to sublingual bufo dosing. I also suspect that the "green phlegm" drawn from the protagonist's body was likely coloured with a chewed up leaf of some kind, concealed in the shaman's cheek. The cardiotoxic components of toad venom - making a huge assumption here about the actual toad species, of course - with names along the lines of bufadienolides and the like, would be reasonably heat stable but the addition of warm saliva, and possibly the suspected leaf juice admixture, might serve to lop off the saccharide portion of these toxins through the action of salivary amylase and render them much more benign.

Just an educated guess but, as you say, "more information needed" - it would probably be worth contacting the author. He does appear to have a large selection of tall tales that stretch ones credulity...