10. ‘Munchira’—The minute and highly toxic leaves are 
employed medicinally as an anti-rheumatic, emetic, 
carminative, vermifuge and to treat erysipelas. Their 
psychotropic use is described below. 
11. ‘Culebra’—This cultivar has received more attention 
from botanists because of its especially curious mor- 
phology, and because of its description by Schultes 
in 1955, asa distinct genus, Methysticodendron. De- 
spite the numerous reports on its medicinal, and 
especially psychotropic, importance, my investiga- 
tion showed it to be less important to the present 
day Sibundoy than either ‘Quinde’ or ‘Munchira’. 
I found it used against resfrio (‘colds,) and against 
erysipelas, and more often than other cultivars, 
against rheumatism. 
Schultes reported the use of culebra borrachera in 
treating swollen joints, combating chills and fevers, and 
in divination, prophecy, therapy, and learning ‘‘witch- 
eraft’’ (29). 
Theilkuhl, who visited the Sibundoy in 1956, was also 
able to learn of the importance of this plant as a psycho- 
tropic drug, as well as medicinally in the form of poul- 
tices, ‘‘to combat rheumatism, swollen infections, muscle 
cramps, erysipelas, and in the form of baths, colds’’ (35). 
12. ‘Andrés’—One informant said he had used the flow- 
ers psychotropically. 
Psychotropic use 
Literature dealing with the Daturas of the Valley of 
Sibundoy has emphasized their importance as psycho- 
tropic, or mind affecting, drugs (27, 29, 80, 31, 82, 38, 
36, 38). Writings based directly upon experience among 
the Sibundoy are those of Schultes (1955) and Theilkuhl 
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