Bernardino de Sahagún
On the ancient Mexican names of the hallucinogenic plants of the genus Solandra
Bernardino de Sahagún, cacahuaxóchitl, ethnobotany, Francisco Hernández, Mexico, Nahuatl, poyomatli, tecomaxóchitlBy: GIORGIO SAMORINI – Ethnographic evidence of the current use of plants of the genus Solandra as visionary agents among some Mexican ethnic groups leads to a reconsideration of these plants as possibly known and used for a long time by native populations and to a search for their traces in the precolonial past. One…