Ocotea cymbarum

Ocotea cymbarum is a species of Ocotea in the plant family Lauraceae.^[2] It is an evergreen tree found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Medical Uses[]

The essential oils from Ocotea cymbarum are often used in the synthesis of MDMA (contracted from 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine); a psychoactive drug of the substituted methylenedioxyphenethylamine and substituted amphetamine classes of drugs that is consumed primarily for its euphoric and empathogenic effects. Pharmacologically, MDMA acts as a serotonin-norepinephrine-dopamine releasing agent and reuptake inhibitor.^{[citation needed]}

^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Ocotea cymbarum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.
^ "Ocotea cymbarum Kunth". The Plant List. Retrieved 2017-08-02.

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