so. Frequently natives do not specify which borrachera 
they refer to unless questioned, and outsiders may easily 
assume culebra is intended. 
Seijas reports that borrachera is sometimes added to 
chicha, the nutritious daily beverage of low alcohol con- 
tent (pers. comm.). However, she adds that many con- 
sider this an antisocial practice, since it often results in 
disorderly behavior and fighting. 
A dozen cases of intentional intoxication with the 
other three important Datura cultivars have come to 
my attention. 
As psychotropic drugs, it is “Quinde’, ‘Munchira’ and 
(reportedly) ‘Culebra’ which are employed principally. 
The juice of the leaves, or occasionally of the flowers, is 
taken, usually alone and unheated. Depending on the 
size of the leaves, between one leaf and twenty-four 
leaves (‘‘twelve pairs’’) are taken. Normally the leaves 
are taken in pairs, and sometimes (Seijas, pers. comm. ) 
only as even numbers of pairs. While one leaf is sufh- 
cient in the case of the large-leaved ‘Salaman’, two or 
four of the smaller ‘Quinde’ leaves are used. Between 
eight and twenty-four of the minute *“Munchira’ leaves 
are required. The leaves are usually macerated and 
crushed and the expressed juices taken alone or some- 
times mixed with a jigger of water or trago (alcoholic 
distillate), partly for convenience. Sugar is sometimes 
added to the juice to make it more palatable. One in- 
formant heated ‘Munchira’ leaves ina very small amount 
of water to extract the juices. 
One medicine-man made the drug by expressing the 
juice from one flower each of ‘Salaman’, ‘Quinde’ and 
‘Munchira’, thus obtaining about 15 cc. to which he 
added sugar. Another individual used only two flowers, 
both of ‘Quinde’. 
The psychotropic use of these Daturas is not restricted 
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