🔼: [[Books - Nonfiction]] # TiHKAL - The Continuation --- Author(s):: [[Alexander Shulgin]], [[Ann Shulgin]] Release Date:: 1996 My Rating:: Bookshop:: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link  ## Subject Matter - [[🛠 Psychedelics]] - [[🧪 LSD]] - [[Tryptamines]] ## Description In TiHKAL the authors continue their exploration (begun in [[📖 🟠 PIHKAL - A Chemical Love Story]]) of the chemistry and transformative power of psychedelic drugs, devoting this volume to tryptamines, β-carbolines and LSD analogues. The first section is a a blend of travel, botanical facts, scientific speculation, psychological and political commentary. The second section describes in detail a wealth of tryptamines in the same format as Book II of PIHKAL, plus appendices presenting topics such as cactus alkaloids, natural beta-carbolines, current drug law, and all known tryptamines (from the literature) that might be psychedelic. trypt-amine ‘trip-ta-,mēn n. [tryptophan fr. tryptic, fr. trypsin, fr. Gk. tryein, to wear down (from its occurrence in pancreatic juice as a proteolytic enzyme) + amine fr. NL ammonia] 1: A naturally occurring compound found in both the animal and plant kingdoms. It is an endogenous component of the human brain. 2: Any of a series of compounds containing the tryptamine skeleton, and modified by chemical constituents at appropriate positions in the molecule.