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Native to the Andes, the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) has been traditionally used to combat fatigue, hunger, and altitude sickness, as noted in Possession of Coca Plants by Hospitals for Medical ...

The health risks associated with cocaine, including its newer synthetic derivatives like pink cocaine, are severe and often ...

Journal Reference: Gaia Giordano et al, Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) in Europe to the early 1600s, Journal of Archaeological Science (2024).

As the Duchy of Milan was under Spanish rule in the 17th century and was one of the destinations of sea trade from the Americas, it’s possible that some coca plants reached Milan unbeknown to ...

Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush native to South America. When Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci arrived in what is now Venezuela in 1499, he noticed ...

The presence of these compounds in human remains from the 1600s is described as "unprecedented," particularly because the hospital's pharmacological records do not mention the Erythroxylum plant ...

by WKRC Mon, September 2nd 2024 at 4:46 PM (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) TOPICS: Cocaine 1600s Research Benzoylecgonine Hygrine Erythroxylum Archaeological Recreational ...

Play now! As the University of Oxford explains, Erythroxylum is the genus for the coca plant, and notes “In 1855 an anaesthetic alkaloid (cocaine) was isolated from coca leaves.” ...

In the latest study, which was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the scientists carried out toxicology tests on brain matter inside the skulls. Among two of the nine samples tested, ...

Giordano and colleagues detected benzoylecgonine in the brain samples, indicating that cocaine had indeed passed through the bodies of the two people before they died. The presence of hygrine, an ...

The most notable species, Erythroxylum coca, is native to the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, thriving in the warm, humid climate of regions such as Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.