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<td valign="top" width="50%">This large lobelia, the flowers of which are fiery<br />
<br />
red, is found in the wild in South America in the<br />
<br />
Andes and their foothills. It is cultivated throughout<br />
<br />
the world as an ornamental. The most common<br />
<br />
name for this conspicuous plant is tupa,<br />
<br />
which can be translated as "spot;' «point;' «sunspot"<br />
<br />
or even «mark of disgrace:' Many inhabitants of the Andes consider this campanulaceous plant<br />
<br />
to be toxic and avoid it. Since it is often called<br />
<br />
tabaco del diablo ("devil's tobacco"), it was once<br />
<br />
thought that it might have psychoactive or even<br />
<br />
hallucinogenic effects (Schultes and Hofmann<br />
<br />
1992, 47*). However, there is no ethnographic<br />
<br />
evidence indicating that devil's tobacco is or ever<br />
<br />
was used ritually for psychoactive purposes.<br />
<br />
In Chile, Lobelia tupa and several other species<br />
<br />
are referred to as trupa, tupa, or tabaco del diablo<br />
<br />
(Lobelia excelsa Bonpl., Lobelia polyphylla H. et A.;<br />
<br />
cf. Mosbach 1992, 105*). The Mapuche use the<br />
<br />
name tupa to refer to a related species, Lobelia<br />
<br />
salicifolia Sweet, which they use as a medicinal<br />
<br />
plant to treat flu (they make a tea from the leaves).<br />
<br />
The latex is said to induce severe inflammation of<br />
<br />
the eye and of the digestive tract, together with<br />
<br />
vomiting and diarrhea (Houghton and Manby<br />
<br />
1985, 100*).<br />
<br />
Lobelia tupa has been shown to contain piperidine<br />
<br />
alkaloids; these do not, however, have any<br />
<br />
unequivocal psychoactive effects. As with Lobelia<br />
<br />
inflata, the principal alkaloid in the leaves is<br />
<br />
a-lobeline (Kaczmarek and Steinegger 1958).<br />
<br />
Lobelamidine and norlobelamidine are also<br />
<br />
present (Kaczmarek and Steinegger 1958; Schultes<br />
<br />
and Farnsworth 1982, 177*). Smoking the dried<br />
<br />
leaves strongly stimulates the production of saliva<br />
<br />
and an immediate stimulation occurs that is<br />
<br />
similar to that produced by Lobelia inflata and<br />
<br />
Nicotiana tabacum. The white smoke is relatively<br />
<br />
easy to inhale and produces almost no irritation<br />
<br />
(cf. smoking blends).</td><br />
<td valign="top" width="53%"><strong>Literature</strong><br />
<br />
Kaczmarek, F., and E. Steinegger. 1958.<br />
<br />
Untersuchungen der Alkaloide von Lobelia tupa<br />
<br />
1. Pharm. Helvetica Acta 33:257-62.<br />
<br />
---.1959. Botanische Klassifizierung und<br />
<br />
Alkaloidvorkommen in der Gattung Lobelia.<br />
<br />
Pharm. Helvetica Acta 34:413-29.</td><br />
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