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	Sacred Datura
		Datura is still widely used in the Caribbean for the same or similar reasons as well, and called there "herbe aux sorciers" (herb of the sorcerers) among the various French speaking islanders.
		SACRED DATURA: Nightshade Family [Solanaceae] is found in western Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, southern California, Mexico, and the West Indies and grows within an elevation range between sea level and 6,500 feet.
		When Datura is used in a Native American ritual, it is always under the guidance of an individual of certain tribal spritual resolve such as a Medicine person or tribal elder.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/anna_jones1/datura.html (824 words)

	The Sacred Datura
		Sacred Datura is a member of the nightshade or potato family.
		Datura was one of the most important medicinal plants to early Native Americans." She doesn't say how this apparent contradiction can occur, but perhaps it was used as a poultice or ointment.
		Identifying the Sacred Datura is easy when it's blooming, but there is a secret way of identifying the plant when it's only a seedling.
	www.dflt.org /awareness/sacred-datura.htm (486 words)

	Lycaeum > Leda > Datura and Brugmansia species as Sacred Plants and Medicines
		In both hemispheres Daturas were regarded as sacred and especially valued for their power to induce visionary dreams, to see the future and to reveal the causes of disease and misfortune.
		A Datura preparation known as Dht, was used both to bestow a fearless frenzy in the worshipers as they attacked their victims (usually travellers), and to drug these prior to the sacrifice.
		Sacred plants only provide the key to other dimensions but what is to be found there depends on the mental and psychological state of the initiate.
	leda.lycaeum.org /?ID=16271 (4048 words)

	SACRED DATURA: PARADIGM SHIFTER FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SACRED DATURA: PARADIGM SHIFTER FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
		Sacred Datura flower essence is a very important one in our time, especially as we face the amazing changes the new Millennium will thrust upon us.
		Sacred Datura is an excellent essence for bringing us out of denial so that a much greater overview of a situation can be seen.
	www.essences.com /vibration/dec99/datura.html (836 words)

	V72 - Psychoactive Datura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Datura is a genus of herb and shrub plants belonging to the Solanaceae.
		Datura was supposedly used in witchcraft to induce hallucinations.
		Datura is an anticholinergic, which may explain why the hallucinations are often called "daytime dreaming." In the 1990s and 2000s, the American media contained stories of teenagers and young adults dying or becoming seriously ill from intentionally ingesting Datura.
	www.v72.org /datura.html (1277 words)

	Datura wrightii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Datura wrightii or Sacred Datura is the name of a poisonous perennial weed and ornamental flower of southwestern North America.
		Datura wrightii is classified as a deliriant and an anticholinergic.
		Datura wrightii is a sacred plant that has been used in sacred ceremonies and rites of passage by Chumash, Tongva, and other tribes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Datura_wrightii (593 words)

	The Master Gardener Journal
		Sacred datura is a native perennial that can be incorporated into a drought-tolerant landscape with great effect.
		Sacred datura produces dozens of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers that are sometimes tinged with purple or lavender around the margins.
		Sacred datura is a night-bloomer, and is pollinated by sphinx or hawk moths.
	ag.arizona.edu /maricopa/garden/html/pubs/0103/natives.html (719 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Winter 2004 - Sex in the Garden
		Luscious and seductive, sensuous and sly, Datura wrightii is a rather common weed whose dark-green heart-shaped leaves grow in mounds along roadsides, in ditches and arroyos, on desert slopes and in pinyon-juniper forests from California to Texas.
		Native Americans traditionally used sacred datura as a hallucinogen by soaking and steeping the leaves into a tea or chewing the seeds or roots.
		For most sacred datura in the wild, that pollinator is a stout-bodied, fast-flying species of sphinx moth, often the tobacco hornworm moth (Manduca sexta).
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/04win/garden1.asp (1122 words)

	Chapter 7: Shamanism and Ritual
		During this time, singers performed sacred song cycles that told the story of their origins as well as the story of the peoples' wanderings, after the death of Mukat, while they sought a permanent homeland.
		Datura was abundant throughout the region and, actually, it occurs widely in North America.
		When boys (or girls) were prepared for their initiation experiences, the shaman harvested datura roots and prepared teas that allowed for a wide variety of factors that could affect the hallucinogenic potency.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/indian/ca/ch07.htm (5649 words)

	Backyard Gardener - Sacred Datura, December 5, 2001
		Sacred datura (Datura wrightii) is a large, sprawling, native perennial that grows throughout the Verde Valley (and across Arizona between 1,000 and 7,000 feet elevation).
		In the wild, sacred datura is found on well-drained, sandy soils in arroyos, washes, on roadsides, and other areas that have periodic disturbance.
		Datura can be planted near a patio where the fragrance and moth activity can both be enjoyed on warm summer evenings.
	ag.arizona.edu /yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/sacreddatura.html (810 words)

	The News - fall 1992 - Sacred Datura (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Datura was brought to North America for medicinal use by colonists who settled in Jamestown.
		The datura is a nocturnal plant and is tended by several different types of insects: beetles, bees and moths.
		During the nineteenth century, datura was marketed as “Spanish Herbal Cigarettes.” Many cultures have taken advantage of datura’s antihistamine and bronchio-dilating properties; used as a smoke, it can relieve the symptoms of asthma, but it can kill you too.
	www.gcrg.org.cob-web.org:8888 /bqr/5-4/sacreddatura.html (874 words)

	CASTANEDA, DON JUAN: Datura or Peyote?
		However, it wasn't Peyote but actually the plant Sacred Datura --- known throughout the desert southwest as jimsonweed --- that played the primary role in his early experiences into other realities --- including, it must be said, his most famous and most oft cited experience where he turned into a crow and flew.
		Please note that I wrote Sacred Datura "played the PRIMARY role in his (Carlos Castaneda's) early experiences into other realities." How reviewers, critics and the minds of the reading public skewed that primary use of Datura into that of Peyote or even mushrooms is not clear.
		While it is known Datura is available on most of the islands in the Caribbean including Jamaica, for the record, the warm tea-like broth brewed by the Obeahman was not made from Datura.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/carlos_datura.html (3227 words)

	Sacred Datura
		The Sacred Datura is a member of the nightshade family (which also includes tobacco, and food crops such as potatoes, tomatoes and chile peppers).
		Datura grows in washes and roadsides at elevations from 1000 to 6000 feet.
		Sacred Datura is pollinated by Hawkmoths which also lay eggs on the plant.
	www.toddshikingguide.com /FloraFauna/Flora27.htm (207 words)

	The Sacred Datura Desert Food Chain part 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is as though the exquisite blossom of the Sacred Datura issues an irresistible invitation to a party of the spirits of darkness.
		The Sacred Datura furnishes the moth with nectar as a food source and shelter for its eggs.
		Various Sacred Datura species have for eons been used in the East Indies, Greece, the Arabian countries, Asian countries, China, India and the Americas by mystics and sorcerers in a reach for otherworldly hallucinations.
	www.desertusa.com /food_chain_k12/kids_7.html (1149 words)

	eMedicine - Plant Poisoning, Alkaloids - Tropane : Article Excerpt by: Richard A Wagner, MD, PhD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Mexico, Datura is taken by Yaqui women to lessen pain of childbirth.
		In Africa, a common use is to smoke leaves from Datura to relieve asthma and pulmonary problems.
		Recently, Datura has been used as a recreational hallucinogen in the US, resulting in sporadic cases of anticholinergic poisoning and death.
	www.emedicine.com /emerg/byname/plant-poisoning-alkaloids---tropane.htm (565 words)

	Toloache Seeds from Alchemy Works - Seeds for Magick Herbs and Pagan Gardens
		After the participants fasted, purged themselves, and cleansed themselves with steam baths or dips in icy water, they drank a tea of the plant to open themselves to an animal spirit who taught the seeker a song or dance and who would guide the individual during the rest of life.
		The plant was usually used in a group for this purpose, and at first only young men engaged in this rite, but later both men and women drank datura tea on their own, often to strengthen their bond with their spirit helper, communicate with the dead, or divine the future.
		Unlike other daturas, this one produces a rhizome that can be lifted in the fall once the leaves die back and the temperatures start being in the 40s (F).
	www.alchemy-works.com /datura_inoxia.html (556 words)

	Sacred datura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sacred datura has been called by many names, among which are tolguacha, thorn-apple and western jimsonweed, but I just usually refer to it as datura.
		Datura is found in both cismontane and desert areas, dry open and sandy places to 4000' in coastal sage scrub, valley grassland, creosote bush scrub and joshua tree woodland in most of the California Floristic Province.
		It is a native and can be distinguished from its introduced close relative, Datura stramonium, by its fruit (stramonium has erect ovoid capsules) and the size of the flowers (stramonium has flowers only up to 2" across).
	www.calflora.net /bloomingplants/sacreddatura.html (224 words)

	Solanaceae (nightshade family)
		Jimson weed (its most widespread English name) is a perennial herb 2 to 5 feet (0.60-1.5 m) tall and up to several feet (a couple of meters) wide from a large tuberous root.
		This is one of the most dangerous plants used for this purpose, because not only do individual plants vary in potency, but humans also differ in their tolerance to the toxins.
		Datura discolor (desert thorn apple, toloache) and D. stramonium (jimson weed, hierba del diablo—“herb of the devil”) are annuals with smaller dimensions.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/solanaceae.html (621 words)

	Erowid Datura Vaults : Info #3 on the Solanaceae Family
		In general, Daturas are smaller and low to the ground while Brugmansia are trees and large shrubs.
		Datura inoxia (sacred datura) is native to the American Southwest, and has a long history of shamanic use among the Zuni, Navajo, and several other tribes.
		Datura stramonium (thornapple, jimsonweed) is a mostly eastern species and was probably introduced to the Americas from the West Indies.
	www.erowid.org /plants/datura/datura_info3.shtml (307 words)

	Propagating Datura and trumpet vine / Fire ants in New Mexico
		The datura, if it is datura, should grow well from seed.
		The datura seed pod is usually covered with spines, kind of like a little round porcupine.
		If this is the common "Sacred Datura" or "Angel Trumpet" it is also possible to propagate it from pieces of root.
	www.cahe.nmsu.edu /ces/yard/1999/083099.html (641 words)

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		The Sacred Datura is laid out shotgun style in half of an old building on Colter Avenue, one block off the seedier main street downtown.
		Violets and indigo and blood orange and radium yellows are streaking from Diane’s eyes and mouth and from the tips of her fingers and I savor the pie as if it is my very life than I am chewing and swallowing and almost swooning for.
		And now she’s pulling me, pulling me toward the back of the Sacred Datura like a drowning man and the colors are screaming at me and I am desperately, hopelessly, endlessly in love with her.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~dso6/sacreddatura.html (1676 words)

	Datura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Its dark grayish-green, heart-shaped leaves form mounds from which, in summer to fall, sprout striking, 6-inch-long, bright-white flowers tinged with lavender, and which ripen to become sharp-prickly seed-pods.A plant of great beauty, datura is a member of the Nightshade family (Solanaceae), and all parts of it are toxic.
		The larvae then consume the leaves down to their nubs, but the Datura plant also has large, tuberous roots which store nutrients against these assaults.
		Native Americans used sacred datura as a hallucinogen, steeping the leaves into a tea or chewing seeds or roots, but they were well aware of how dangerous this particular vehicle of vision quest was, and their myths associate it with death.
	www.saguaro-juniper.com /i_and_i/flowers/datura/datura.html (320 words)

	Weed Gallery: Sacred datura--UC IPM
		Sacred datura, also known as tolguacha, is a native perennial in dry, sandy, or gravelly soils of agricultural and noncropped areas.
		Seedlings germinate in May or June, and leaves on seedlings are narrow and pointed with smooth short hairs on the upper surface.
		Sacred datura is similar to a related annual species, jimsonweed.
	www.ipm.ucdavis.edu /PMG/WEEDS/sacred_datura.html (221 words)

	Datura (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All parts of all Datura plants are poisonous and can be fatal if ingested.
		Datura is a member of the Potato (Solanaceae) Family, also called the Deadly Nightshade Family.
		All species of Datura have long been used by native peoples of the Southwest in puberty and other ceremonies because of the plant's halucinogenic alkaloids.
	www.desertusa.com.cob-web.org:8888 /aug97/du_datura.html (257 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Winter 2004 - Sex in the Garden
		At the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Rob manipulated sacred datura plants.
		By comparison, the interaction between a sacred datura and a white-lined sphinx moth almost seems romantic.
		The sacred datura is classified as a weed and the white-lined sphinx moth as a pest, not endangered, not threatened (although heavy uses of herbicides and insecticides could change that).
	www.nrdc.org /OnEarth/04win/garden2.asp (802 words)

	Sacred Datura (9/6) \| jeffblaylock.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A commonly seen flower in Zion National Park is the sacred datura.
		This photograph is one of 18 now posted to the new Zion gallery.
		Fill out this form to post a comment regarding "Sacred Datura (9/6)." The Name and Email Address fields are required.
	www.jeffblaylock.com /window/2004/09/sacred_datura_9/index.php (266 words)

	Sacred Datura \| jeffblaylock.com
		A commonly seen flower in Zion is the sacred datura.
		It's actually poisonous--like a powerful narcotic no less--and should definitely be seen and not touched.
		Fill out this form to post a comment regarding "Sacred Datura." The Name and Email Address fields are required.
	www.jeffblaylock.com /window/2004/09/sacred_datura/index.php (257 words)

	Plants Belonging to the Genus 'Datura' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		quinquecuspida synonym of Datura wrightii (Sacred Datura, Wright's Jimson Weed)
		Datura meteloides synonym of Datura wrightii (Sacred Datura, Wright's Jimson Weed)
		Datura suaveolens synonym of Brugmansia suaveolens (Angel's Trumpet)
	www.desert-tropicals.com /Plants/Solanaceae/Datura.html (69 words)

	PlantFiles: Detailed information on Hindu Datura, Indian Apple, Jimson Weed, Sacred Datura, Thorn Apple Datura inoxia
		Datura has also been called 'Devil"s Trumpet' since the flowers face upward toward Heaven, rather than downward from Heaven.
		Here in zone 11 this plant (Sacred Datura, Jimson Weed, Jamestown Weed, Loco Weed, Thornapple, Datura Metaloides, etc...) blooms just about year round - but the flowers open only at night during the summer months and only during the day time during the winter months.
		Datura metel (Jimpson Weed) drops seeds in the fall in my Zone 5 area and comes back every year; a white "Angel's Trumpet" does the same.
	davesgarden.com /pf/go/355/index.html (3683 words)

	Erowid Datura Vaults : Jimson Weed Poisoning
		Jimson Weed is a common weed along roadsides, in cornfields and pastures, and in waste areas.
		Datura stramonium comes from the family Solanaceae, the potato or nightshade family.
		Although exposure is sometimes unintentional by gardeners or farmers, its toxic effects are seen most commonly in teens, who intentionally misuse it for its hallucinogenic and euphoric effects, while presenting with serious illness or death from its anticholinergic properties.
	www.erowid.org /plants/datura/datura_info5.shtml (1277 words)

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