I have a small team working in Peru at the moment. One wrote to say that a local shaman had told him that a small, very rare orchid with little white flowers was a powerful hallucinogen, much more so than ayahuasca (Bannisteropsis capii) the normal drug of choice. This information came from the area near Cusco, where the highlands dip into the Madre de Dios jungle. Does anyone know more about this, as I thought that orchids had disappointingly limited general medicinal properties.
_____________________________________ Oliver Sparrow Tel: UK (0)20 7736 9716 www.chforum.org www.treknepal.org www.datafreeze.com
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