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THE RITUAL USE OF BRUGMANSIA SPECIES IN TRADITIONAL ANDEAN MEDICINE IN NORTHERN PERU.
- Source :
- Economic Botany; Winter2004 Supplement, Vol. 58, pS221-S229, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This paper reports the use of Brugmansia species (Solanaceae) in traditional practices of shamans (curanderos) of Northern Peruvian Andes. The field study permitted the classification of a number of species and/or their hybrids used for both curative and psychotropic activities. There is evidence of a folk systematics in this genus that constitutes a very important phenomenon for its therapeutic-divinatory, phytotherapeutical, and ritual (in initiation and black magic rites) uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PLANT species
PSYCHOTROPIC plants
MEDICINAL plants
RITES & ceremonies
ETHNOBOTANY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00130001
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Economic Botany
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16475803
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[S221:TRUOBS]2.0.CO;2