HALLUCINOGENS

Some uses of SWEET FLAG stem directly from the fact that the oil expressed from the roots can produce an LSD-like experience. The Cree Indians, for instance, have long used it as a hallucinogen (Emboden 1979). In Europe it seems to have been connected with witchcraft (one formula for a witch ointment was “De la Bule, de l’Acorum vulgaire,, de la Morelle endormante, et de l’Huyle” (Summers. 1927)