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The traditional plant with which Soma is identified is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynanchum_acidum

We know that the ingredients of Soma include, in addition to plants: Milk (because of the importance of the Cow in Vedic society, Indra's wrath and their relationship with the Moon) and something flammable (so as not to extinguish the Ritual Fire, Agni-Surya/Fire/Sun and Soma-Chandra/Sacrifice/Moon be poetically the same thing, some inflammable liquids are also hallucinogenic).

>The lunar effect is an unproven correlation between specific stages of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle and behavior and physiological changes in living beings on Earth, including humans. The Moon has long been associated with insanity and irrationality; the words lunacy and lunatic are derived from the Latin name for the Moon, Luna. Philosophers Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced insanity in susceptible individuals, believing that the brain, which is mostly water, must be affected by the Moon and its power over the tides, but the Moon's gravity is too slight to affect any single person. Even today, people who believe in a lunar effect claim that admissions to psychiatric hospitals, traffic accidents, homicides or suicides increase during a full moon, but over 37 studies invalidate these claims. Lunar cycles have significant impacts on human culture but no solid evidence connects these cycles to human biology

>HYMN CXIX. Indra. 1. "This, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed: Have I not drunk of Soma juice? Like violent gusts of wind the draughts that I have drunk have lifted me Have I not drunk of Soma juice? The draughts I drank have borne me up, as fleet-foot horses draw a car: Have I not drunk of Soma juice? The hymn hath reached me, like a cow who lows to meet her darling calf: Have I not drunk of Soma juice? As a wright bends a chariot-seat so round my heart I bend the hymn: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?"