Der Meskalinrausch

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| subject = Mescaline; Psychedelic drugs

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Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise, also known as Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation, is a German monograph about the psychedelic drug mescaline by German neurologist and psychiatrist Kurt Beringer that was published in 1927.{{cite journal | last=Jay | first=Mike | title=100 years of mescaline | journal=Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly | volume=150 | issue=5 | date=2019 | issn=0026-9247 | doi=10.1007/s00706-019-02425-3 | pages=957–959}}{{cite book | last=Jay | first=Mike | title=Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic | publisher=Yale University Press | date=18 June 2019 | isbn=978-0-300-23107-6 | pages=}}{{cite book | last=McKenna | first=Terence | chapter=[Chapter 14:] A Brief History of Psychedelics | pages=223–245 | title=Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution | publisher=Rider | date=1999 | isbn=978-0-7126-7038-8 | url=https://alquimiahealingarts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Food-Of-The-Gods-Terence-Mckenna.pdf#page=117}}

Mescaline became commercially available in 1920 following its first synthesis in 1919. In 1921, Beringer started clinical studies of mescaline, administered it to more than 60{{nbsp}}people, mostly doctors and medical students at his clinic, and studied its psychological effects, especially its visuals. He published his findings in Der Meskalinrausch in 1927.

Beringer, in his monograph and in other publications, was the first to comment on similarities between mescaline intoxication and schizophrenia symptoms, describing the effects of mescaline as "experimental psychosis".{{cite journal | vauthors = Halberstadt AL, Geyer MA | title = Serotonergic hallucinogens as translational models relevant to schizophrenia | journal = Int J Neuropsychopharmacol | volume = 16 | issue = 10 | pages = 2165–2180 | date = November 2013 | pmid = 23942028 | pmc = 3928979 | doi = 10.1017/S1461145713000722 | url = }}{{cite journal | last=Beringer | first=Kurt | title=Experimentelle psychosen durch mescalin. Vortrag, gehalten auf der südwestdeutschen psychiaterversammlung in Erlangen 1922 | journal=Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie | volume=84 | issue=1 | date=1923 | issn=0303-4194 | doi=10.1007/BF02896052 | pages=426–433 | language=de}}

After its publication, Heinrich Klüver used Beringer's data to conduct the first phenomenological analysis of psychedelic effects. He published his findings in his own monograph Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects in 1928.