History of Cocaine

The cocoa leaf is the source of the cocaine. In traditional Indian cultures, Mama Coca was considered as a sacred goddess who could bless humans with her power. Before the coca harvest, the harvester would sleep with a woman to make sure Mama Coca would be in a favorable mood. Typically, a decoction of coca and saliva was rubbed onto the male organ to prolong erotic ecstasy. Traditionally, the leaves have been chewed for social, mystical, medicinal and religious purposes. Coca has even been used to provide a measure of time and distance. Native travelers sometimes described a journey in terms of the number of mouthfuls of coca typically chewed in making the trip. This leaf was also used by South American Indigenous people since thousand of years ago. The ancient Peruvian mummies have remains of cocoa leaves, and pottery from the time period depicts humans, cheeks bulged with something in their mouth chewing. This shows that cocoa leaves have been used in this culture.