finely and mixed into a dog’s food prior to a hunting 
expedition, supposedly to make the animal locate 
more game. ‘The behavior of a dog so intoxicated 
would be most interesting to observe, but hunting is 
rarely practiced in the Valley today. 
An herbarium specimen from Sibundoy (Idrobo 2231; 
COL) records this note on biangdn borrachero: ‘Taken 
as a stimulant when feeling fatigue and also as an hallu- 
cinogen.”” I did not learn of these uses by the Sibundoy. 
However, one Sibundoy related how his three year old 
daughter ate part of some flowers of this near the house 
and became dizzy and incoherent, falling to the ground 
and shouting periodically for many hours thereafter. 
Yepes (88) included this in his account of intoxicating 
plants used by a medicine-man from Santiago (not of 
the Sibundoy tribe). 
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*“Amaron’—The leaves of this cultivar are sometimes 
used as a suppurant and as an anti-rheumatic. 
‘Salaman’—This cultivar is the rarest, being known 
only in one garden, and its owner considers it the most 
toxic of all the Daturas. He uses the leaves, along 
with those of ‘Quinde’ and ‘Culebra’ in an infusion for 
bathing rheumatic limbs and joints. He has also used 
both the leaves and flowers for their psychotropic 
effect, as described below. 
‘Quinde’—This is the most widely known of the eco- 
nomically important cultivars. An infusion of the 
leaves is employed both as an anti-rheumatic and as 
a vermifuge, and the leaves are applied topically as a 
suppurant. The leaves and occasionally the flowers 
are used psychotropically, probably more often than 
any other Sibundoy Datura (cf. below). 
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