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Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert
Bufo alvarius (Incilius alvarius), the Sonoran Desert or Colorado River toad, is a large southwestern US-Mexican toad whose parotoid secretion contains the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, smoked since the 1980s and now threatened by poaching.
Bufotoxin
Bufotoxin: family of cardiotoxic steroid esters in toad gland secretions, formed from bufadienolides plus suberyl-arginine; Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors used as Chan su in Chinese medicine and a cause of often-fatal toad poisoning.