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Virola peruviana / Virola / Myristicaceae (Nutmeg family)
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Other Names
Epeña, Ebena, Nyakwana, Paricá, Cumala
Contents
5-MeO-DMT, small amounts DMT and 5-Methoxy-tryptamine.
Plant Description
Virola peruviana is a species of tree in the Myristicaceae family. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. It grows to a height of about 35 m (100 ft). The fruit is ellipsoidal, 14-24 mm long and 11-23 mm in diameter, forming groups of about 5 to 15.
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The Use of the Genus Virola as a Hallucinogen In South America
Virola Theodoria - Virola (Epena) from Plants of the Gods
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Trees of the genus Virola, are widely used by groups in wet tropical forests of South America. These tribes include the Waika of the upper Orinoco area in Venezuela and northern Brazil and the Paumarí from near the Rio Purus in Amazonian Brazil. Depending on locality, the snuff made from Virola carries the general names applied to all snuffs, such as Ebene, Epena, Viho, Parica, Yakawana, and Nyakwana, among others. The Tukano, for example, see this sacred snuff as the "semen of Father Sun", obtained by his daughter with whom he had incest. Thus the Tukano received this sacred snuff from the sun’s semen and keep it in containers called "muhipu-nuri", or "penis of the sun".
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