Coca Properties
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Names
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History
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Constituents
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Uses
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E.truxillense
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In South America, coca leaf hasbeen used traditionally as a chew, in
comb-ination with the lime of roasted seashells (Colombia)
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hygrine
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fresh or dried leaf: stimulant or tonic
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from the Erythroxylaceae family
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or with amaranth stalk, which is high in
calcium(Huancavalca,Peru)
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hygroline
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with lime or ash, chewed for: fatigue, feelings of hunger, relief of
gastric pain,
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erythroylum novogranatense(Colombian coca)
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Coca is clipped to 2 metres in height as shrubs and the leaves
collected and sun-dried, then packed in bags. Shrubs are productive for
over fifty years.
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cuscohygrine
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nausea and vomiting
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personified by the Incas as Mama Coca
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dihydrocuscohygrine
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cerebral and muscular stimulant
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Cuca
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before fears about narcotics, coca was used in Coca Cola drink.Cocaine
was extracted fom the leaf tea used after 1904.
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tropacocaine (3b benzoyloxytropane)
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chew, wine, lozenges
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Huanuco cola (Bolivia)
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Coca Cola was first made in wine, and called "an intellectual
beverage'
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crystalline glycosides
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may prevent scurvy
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L.O.Linaceae
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When sugar syrup replaced the wine it became known as "the Temperance
Drink".
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cocatannic acid
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to relieve pain of arthritis, headache and rheumatism
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leaf contains several alkaloids;the most important cocaine,
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Cocaine used in ear nose and throat surgery only
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Sigmund Freud,in the early twentieth century, used cocaine for
hysterical frigidity in his female patients.
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cinnamyl-cocaine
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novocaine in dentristry
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x and b truxilline
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illegal recreational drug
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vitamins C,B1 and Riboflavin, proteins, mineral salts
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tonic in neurasthenia
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anamyl cocaine
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cocamine
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Contra-Indications