My own findings from the field, though by no means 

 definitive, do have the advantage of being based on voucher 

 specimens. It is worth noting that, quite by coincidence, my 

 contact at Huancabamba and Las Huaringas, don Pancho 

 Guarnizo appears to have been Friedberg's major informant 

 (Friedberg 1963: 249-254). According to Jose Guarnizo, the 

 herbalist son and colleague of Pancho Guarnizo, cimora is a 

 conceptual term referring to "algo malo"— something bad. In 

 this sense, he recognized a number of locally distinguished forms 

 of Brugmansia X Candida Pers. (identified by earlier students as 

 Datura arborea L.) as cimora oso (Davis 670), cimora galga 

 (Davis 672, 671, 687, 757, 758) and cimora toro curandero 

 (Davis 673, 686). Other uncollected cirnoras which he compared 

 morphologically with Brugmansia X Candida were cimora 

 aguila, cimora leon, cimora rastrera. Although all of my 

 collections have been identified as B. X Candida, these unidenti- 

 fied vernacular names may refer to some of the other species of 



mansia 



Willd 



et Presl., and B. versicolor Lagerh.) (Friedberg 1980). According 

 to Jose Guarnizo, these brugmansias, which he also referred to 



m 



were rarely added to the San Pedro preparations. 

 Rather, the curandero, when faced with a particularly difficuU 

 case, might ingest these powerful plants alone, and thus divine 

 the source of the particular affliction. 



Timora, according to my findings refers to a number of 

 plants, including Euphorbia cotinifolia L. (Davis 673a) and 

 Iresine celosia L. (Davis 688). Iresine. although not known to 

 have biodynamic principles, has a reputation among the 

 maestros for curing insanity (Schultes and Hofmann 1979). It is 

 of note that a related amaranthaceous plant, Alternanthera 



Leh 



ahuasca 



borrachera. "intoxicant" and they add it to their 



erties of the drink (Schultes 1957). 



In summary, the term cimora appears to be a generic term 

 which may be applied to a number of plants, specifically the 

 brugmansias and perhaps, if Cruz-Sanchez was correct, the 



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