In
1968 a naturalist, Thomas MacDougall, working
among the Chontal Indians, reported a "secret"
plant that is made into a tea or infusion and
consumed in solitude while a cigarette of the
same leaves is smoked. This produces a feeling
of well-being that continues for one or more
days. It is said that Calea promotes a repose
and one hears one's own heart and pulse beating.
The Chontal Shaman call Calea Zacatechichi "thepelakano"
or leaves of god ..
(Wm. Emboden, Narcotic Plants, revised ed.,
Collier Books, pgs 33-34)
In
native folk medicine calea is also used for
gastrointestinal disorders, fever and nausea.
A
traditional recipe is as follows:
Tea : take about 4-6 grams of Calea leaves and
steep them in simmering (not heavily boiling)
water for about 15 minutes. Add honey and milk
or cream to make the taste better.
Smoking the Calea Zacatechichi leaves can
produce a mild cannabis-like euphoria, but
without the apathy. Generally a cigarette is
rolled and smoked while drinking the tea.
Calea produces a feeling of well-being that can
continues for one or more days.
Other techniques are breathing the stream from
the boiling tea and placing a little bit of the
herb under your bottom lip while you sleep &
dream.
The human dose for divinatory purposes
reported by the Chontal informant is a handful
of the dried plant or approximately 12 grams.
Active Constituents: James Duke reported, in his
Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 0.01% of a
crystalline alkaloid, C21H26O8. Psychoactive
components uncertain but believed to be in
aromatic and bitter principle. Much research is
currently being done with this herb.
Known to produce euphoria as well as intense
lucid dreaming.. Hence the given name of the
herb " Dream Herb "
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