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- W4211065723 abstract "Cocaine is the principal alkaloid of Erythoxylon coca, a shrub that grows in the Andean Highlands and the northwestern portions of the Amazon River in South America. The coca plant has been cultivated by the Indians in these areas for several thousand years, and the dried leaves are still used today. Those living in the Highland areas mix the leaves with lime or ash and chew or suck this combination. Addition of the alkaline ash promotes release of the cocaine by changing the pH of saliva. Amazonian Indians first pulverize the alkaline and coca leaf combination. They place this combination into their mouths, where it is mixed with saliva and then swallowed. Coca ingested in these ways has been used for religious, medicinal, and energizing purposes for centuries (see JOHANSON arid FISCHMAN 1989 for a more complete discussion of this history). Since significant cocaine plasma levels can be attained when coca leaves are chewed and sucked as described (PALY et al. 1980), the effects achieved by coca chewing are undoubtedly due to the actions of this principal constituent." @default.
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