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The Shuar of the Ecuadoran rain forest use this
<div>epiphytic, tropical pepper plant as a "mild</div>
<div>hallucinogen." Parents given newborns who are</div>
<div>just a few days old leaves that they have chewed.</div>
<div>Older children are given the plant so that they may</div>
<div>find their dream souls (arutam) (cf. Brugmansia</div>
<div>suaveolens, Nicotiana tabacum) (Bennett 1992,</div>
<div>492 f.*). The leaves apparently are also used as an</div>
<div>ayahuasca additive.</div>
<div>Several Peperomia species contain alkaloids</div>
<div>(Schultes and Raffauf 1990*). Peperomia galioides</div>
<div>H.B.K., which is known in Peru as piri-piri,335 is</div>
<div>added to the San Pedro drink (cf. Trichocereus</div>
<div>pachanoi) to lend the psychoactive effects "more</div>
<div>clarity, brightness, and distinctness" (Giese 1989,</div>
<div>252*).</div>
<div>In Trinidad, the dried leaves of Peperomia</div>
<div>emarginella (Sw.) C. DC. are smoked for asthma.</div>
<div>The essential oil has antispasmodic effects (Wong</div>
<div>1976, 114*).</div>

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