Created: May 22, 2022
Modified: May 22, 2022
Modified: May 22, 2022
DMT
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.Chemically, (n,n-dimethyl)-tryptamine is a tryptamine molecule with two methyl groups hanging off of the nitrogen (amine). It's referred to as DMT or equivalently as n,n-DMT, where the 'n,n' prefix simply describes the location of the methyl groups.
DMT is the base for most (all?) tryptamine psychedelics, for example:
- psilocybin (aka 4-PO-HO-DMTNote that the 'n,n' descriptor is usually omitted from these derived molecules, for simplicity, but properly we would include it. For example, psilocybin is really '4-PO-HO-n,n-DMT', and so on.) and psilocin (4-HO-DMT)
- 5-MeO-DMT
It is also a psychedelic in its own right. The free base can be smoked or vaped directly. Various salt forms can be taken orally in conjunction with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, which is required to prevent the body from breaking down the DMT before it enters the brain; this combination is the essence of ayahuasca.