Coke
ERYTHROXYLON COCA
Origin NORTH OF SOUTH AMERICA
Active ingredient COCAINE
RITUAL, MEDICINAL, RECREATIONAL USE
Coca has been used for more than 4,500 years in Andean civilizations and among the Tukano peoples of the Amazon. Pre-Columbian societies used it in rituals and to fight hunger and fatigue, considering it a gift from the Sun God, Inti. The Spanish spread its use to increase the performance of enslaved indigenous people. A legend about its origin tells that coca grew on the grave of an indigenous woman who was split open and accused of adultery.
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References:
Ferreira, Pedro Eugênio M., and Rodrigo K. Martini. "Cocaine: legends, history and abuse." Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 23 (June 2001): 96–99. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1516-44462001000200008.