The Ritual Use of Brugmansia Species in Traditional Andean Medicine in Northern Peru

Vincenzo De Feo

doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[S221:TRUOBS]2.0.CO;2

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Vincenzo De Feo¹

¹Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy; defeo@unisa.it

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.

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Vincenzo De Feo "The Ritual Use of Brugmansia Species in Traditional Andean Medicine in Northern Peru," Economic Botany 58(sp1), (1 February 2005). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[S221:TRUOBS]2.0.CO;2

Received: 6 December 2003; Accepted: 1 February 2004; Published: 1 February 2005