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The ritual use of Brugmansia species in traditional Andean medicine in Northern Peru

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Economic Botany 58(Supplement):S221–S229, 2004. 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.

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De Feo, V. The ritual use of Brugmansia species in traditional Andean medicine in Northern Peru. Econ Bot 58 (Suppl 1), S221–S229 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[S221:TRUOBS]2.0.CO;2

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