People say that with this bath goes away the drunken state pro- 
duced by the plant that the patient has taken. 
When it is a question of a theft, or a thing lost, the curandero lis- 
tens to what is said by the man who has taken the plant, and thus 
the facts are disclosed. 
There is in Jalapa de Diaz an individual named Felipe Miranda, 
who every three or six months goes to the mountains to gather the 
plant. He makes wonderful cures and finds himself in a good economic 
situation. They say he cultivates and tends to the plant, but he does 
not reveal the kind of plant that it is. 
The identification of Salvia divinorum is long over- 
due. The plant is present the whole year round, and the 
Mazatecs do not hesitate to discuss it, since they are 
much less inhibited with respect to this plant than they 
used to be when talking about the sacred mushrooms. In 
recent years Huautla has changed greatly, the highway 
having reached there in 1958-9 and the new-born traffic 
in the psychotropic mushrooms having its focus there. 
Among the visitors to Huautla there have been a num- 
ber of botanists and mycologists. In Mexico City the 
hqjas de la Pastora are a frequent theme of discussion in 
botanical circles. It is hard to understand how the plant 
has avoided classification until now. 
So far as our information goes, the area of diffusion of 
the hqjas de la Pastora is confined to the Mazatec coun- 
try and possibly the immediately contiguous Cuicatec 
and Chinantec areas. But it may well be known and used 
elsewhere. We shall await with curiosity the reports of 
informants from other regions following the publication 
of this article. Ololiuqui (Rivea corymbosa (L.) Hallier 
filius) is known among the Mazatecs, but they seem to 
prefer for divinition the hajas de la Pastora to the semilla 
de la Flor dela Virgen, ‘‘seed of the Flower of the Vir- 
gin,’’ as the Mazatecs call ololiuqui. 
On Wednesday, July 12, 1961, I ate the ‘‘hojas de la 
Pastora’’ and experienced their effects. I was in Ayautla, 
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