Title
A study of the chemical composition of Erythroxylum coca var. coca leaves collected in two ecological regions of Bolivia
Date Issued
01 January 1997
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Mayor de San Andres
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Abstract
Coca - Erythroxylum coca Lamarck var. coca - remains one of the most common plants of the folk medicine of Bolivia used as a general stimulant. Aymara and Quechua natives prefer to chew the sweeter coca leaves from the Yungas (tropical mountain forests of the eastern slopes of the Andes) rather than those from the Chapare lowlands. The contents in cocaine and minor constituents of leaf samples cultivated in these regions does not rationalize this choice.
Start page
179
End page
191
Volume
56
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Métodos de investigación bioquímica
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0030952679
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
ISSN of the container
03788741
DOI of the container
10.1016/S0378-8741(97)00030-5
Source funding
French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Sponsor(s)
We thank E. Deharo, J. Bravo and E. Ruiz for technical work, A. Bruckner for the review of the project, M. Lebelle of the Bureau of Drug Research in Ottawa for providing us with chemical standards and suggestions and G. Massiot for helpful comments. We are also grateful to the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs for financial support.
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