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Preliminary Inventory List for Psychoactive Plants used in southern African Traditional medicine:

        Sobiecki, J.F. 2002. A preliminary inventory of plants used for psychoactive purposes in southern African healing traditions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 57: 1-24

Overview of African Medicinal Plant Efficacy:

       Fennell, C.W., et al. 2004. Assessing African medicinal plants for efficacy and safety: pharmacological screening and toxicology. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 94: 205-217

Sceletium:

       Gericke, N. & Viljoen, A.M. 2008. Sceletium—A review update. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 119: 653-663

       Harvey, A.L., et al. 2011. Pharmacological actions of the South African medicinal and functional food plant Sceletium tortuosum and its principal alkaloids. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 137:  1124-1129

       Patnala, S. & Kanfer, I. 2009. Investigations of the phytochemical content of Sceletium tortuosum following the preparation of “Kougoed” by fermentation of plant material. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 121: 86-91

       Shikanga, E.A., et al. 2012. Validated RP-UHPLC PDA and GC–MS methods for the analysis of psychoactive alkaloids in Sceletium tortuosum . South African Journal of Botany 82: 99-107

       Smith, M.T., et al. 1996. Psychoactive constituents of the genus Sceletium N.E.Br. and other Mesembryanthemaceae: a review. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 50: 119-130

       Terburg, D., et al. 2013. Acute Effects of Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin), a Dual 5-HT Reuptake and PDE4 Inhibitor, in the Human Amygdala and its Connection to the Hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology 38: 2708-2716.

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Sceletium:

       Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Study of Cognition Effects of the Proprietary Extract Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin) Targeting Phosphodiesterase-4 in
       Cognitively Healthy Subjects: Implications for Alzheimer's Dementia. - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014;2014:682014. doi: 10.1155/2014/682014. Epub 2014 Oct
       19. Chiu S, Gericke N, Farina-Woodbury M, Badmaev V, Raheb H, Terpstra K, Antongiorgi J, Bureau Y, Cernovsky Z, Hou J, Sanchez V, Williams M, Copen J, Husni M, Goble L.

       A toxicological safety assessment of a standardized extract of Sceletium tortuosum (Zembrin®) in rats. - Food Chem Toxicol. 2014 Dec;74:190-9. doi:
       10.1016/j.fct.2014.09.017. Epub 2014 Oct 6. Murbach TS1, Hirka G2, Szakonyiné IP2, Gericke N3, Endres JR4.

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