suelo Garcia, about 35 years old, a vigorous, good-looking 
curandera, who that night performed for us a divinatory 
rite. She used only the leaves, not mushrooms. She 
ground them on her metate, after passing them through 
the smoke of copal, and she did a thorough job of it. 
Water is added to the mass that comes off the metate, 
the whole is put through a strainer, and then we drank 
the liquor. I took the juice of five pair and Mrs. Hofmann 
of three pair. We both felt the effects, which were as I 
described them in the ceremony in Ayautla the year 
before. 
It would seem, in summary, that we are on the thresh- 
old of the discovery of a complex of psychotropic plants 
in the Labiatae or Mint Family. We know that Salvia 
divinorum is so employed in the Sierra Mazateca, and 
Coleus pumila and two ‘‘forms’’ of C. Blumei are said by 
some of the Indians to be similarly used. 
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