Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pastora

Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pastora
-By Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz, Ara G. Paul Summary Salvia divinorum is a perennial labiate used for curing and divination by the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. The psychotropic effects the plant produces are compared to those of the other hallucinogens...

Macropiper Excelsum – Maori Kava

Macropiper Excelsum – Maori Kava
-By Michael P. Bock When the Maori first settled in New Zealand (Aotearoa) from Polynesia in the north-east almost 800 years ago (the Maori navigator Kupe first visited Aotearoa approximately 1000 years ago), they gave Polynesian names to local plants and animals that...