vlad665
Rising Star
i've been thinking alot lately, upon stumbling on that voynich manuscript that presents all sort of chimaeric plants that look like grafted together. i know almost nothing about lexicon used to encrypt that book, but i know a thing or two about plants, and the pages are full of plants.
after scrolling through those pages i saw patterns emerging. many if not most plants are psychoactive, while the rest are medicinal.
weird pairing between a mandrake root which is hepatotoxic, a stem grafted on the root, stem of a different plant while the flower looks alot like a thistle a known hepatic protector due to silimarin, so i had the ideea it may be a harm reduction protocol.
some other pages exhibit some viola tricolor flowers, grafted on a stem of motherwort(leonurus cardiaca), basal leaves of a different species most likely salvia or pillosela officinarium. and the weird thing is i stumbled on research gate on some papers claiming viola sp. potentiates the hypnotic effect of pentobarbital on mice experiments.
the leaves that look alot like leonurus cardiaca or sibiricum, got me thinking, since this plant acts alot like pentobarbital, as CNS depressant, and both share the sedative and anxyiolithic properties
and then comes the basal leaves that look like salvia officinalis or pilosella officinarum.
salvia in its own is also sedative and anxyolithic, modulating GABA-a receptors while pilosella, found some references it was used as a mild hallucinogen/marijuana substitute as it appears in Ott's Pharmacotheon.
and then theres another weird folio, depicting some matricaria flowers, some unknown leaves, and a root system that has some round structures, showimg fungal pinnings?
this made me.thinkimg sclerotia, and mychorizal relationship to roots. psilocybe sp.? mixed with anxyolithic chamomille?
another folio shows again matricaria sp flowers, grafted onto a nettle/mint like leaf system and an unusual phoenyx shaped root. and the phoenyx shaped root is a regular occurence in this book. the weird or maybe not that weird thing is that the only root system i found to be phoenyx shaped is rhodiola rossea, a nootrop found in northern europe.
another folio showing a fern like leave, with 2 ipomoea/calistegia flowers and 2 weird looking basal leaves. i find a similarity to dionea muscipula but i may be wrong. context doesnt match with dionea muscipula as its supposed to be a 142x manuscript.
weirdest thing is the psilocybian resemblance of the photo displaying the truffle/sclerotia, since the book is dated aroumd 50 years before columbus found and fot in contact with south americas. proben psilocybe knowledge in medieval europe?
ten i had the weird ideea that these chimaeras arent quite unusual. maybe they show a technique ro get new compounds usimg enzymatic pathways of the plants themselves. i was seeking on research gate and google scholar native european plants that exhibit tdc and inmt enzymatic pathways and stumbled upon viola species, and remebered i found viola tricolor on this manuscript.
so the question followed immediatly, what if they somehow mashed the plant matter, mixed it in a jar and let nature run its course, processing precursors found in some plant parts, through the enzymatic pathways of different plants that lead to the synthesis of some sought compounds?
found that many legumes, native to europe has the tdc enzyme(clovers, vicia, peas and beans), combine with viola tricolor or odorata's inmt, throw in some SAMe and a pinch of tryptophan. what would come out of such a puree?
after scrolling through those pages i saw patterns emerging. many if not most plants are psychoactive, while the rest are medicinal.
weird pairing between a mandrake root which is hepatotoxic, a stem grafted on the root, stem of a different plant while the flower looks alot like a thistle a known hepatic protector due to silimarin, so i had the ideea it may be a harm reduction protocol.
some other pages exhibit some viola tricolor flowers, grafted on a stem of motherwort(leonurus cardiaca), basal leaves of a different species most likely salvia or pillosela officinarium. and the weird thing is i stumbled on research gate on some papers claiming viola sp. potentiates the hypnotic effect of pentobarbital on mice experiments.
the leaves that look alot like leonurus cardiaca or sibiricum, got me thinking, since this plant acts alot like pentobarbital, as CNS depressant, and both share the sedative and anxyiolithic properties
and then comes the basal leaves that look like salvia officinalis or pilosella officinarum.
salvia in its own is also sedative and anxyolithic, modulating GABA-a receptors while pilosella, found some references it was used as a mild hallucinogen/marijuana substitute as it appears in Ott's Pharmacotheon.
and then theres another weird folio, depicting some matricaria flowers, some unknown leaves, and a root system that has some round structures, showimg fungal pinnings?
this made me.thinkimg sclerotia, and mychorizal relationship to roots. psilocybe sp.? mixed with anxyolithic chamomille?
another folio shows again matricaria sp flowers, grafted onto a nettle/mint like leaf system and an unusual phoenyx shaped root. and the phoenyx shaped root is a regular occurence in this book. the weird or maybe not that weird thing is that the only root system i found to be phoenyx shaped is rhodiola rossea, a nootrop found in northern europe.
another folio showing a fern like leave, with 2 ipomoea/calistegia flowers and 2 weird looking basal leaves. i find a similarity to dionea muscipula but i may be wrong. context doesnt match with dionea muscipula as its supposed to be a 142x manuscript.
weirdest thing is the psilocybian resemblance of the photo displaying the truffle/sclerotia, since the book is dated aroumd 50 years before columbus found and fot in contact with south americas. proben psilocybe knowledge in medieval europe?
ten i had the weird ideea that these chimaeras arent quite unusual. maybe they show a technique ro get new compounds usimg enzymatic pathways of the plants themselves. i was seeking on research gate and google scholar native european plants that exhibit tdc and inmt enzymatic pathways and stumbled upon viola species, and remebered i found viola tricolor on this manuscript.
so the question followed immediatly, what if they somehow mashed the plant matter, mixed it in a jar and let nature run its course, processing precursors found in some plant parts, through the enzymatic pathways of different plants that lead to the synthesis of some sought compounds?
found that many legumes, native to europe has the tdc enzyme(clovers, vicia, peas and beans), combine with viola tricolor or odorata's inmt, throw in some SAMe and a pinch of tryptophan. what would come out of such a puree?
