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A DECALOGUE to PREVENT SOROCHE, the ANDEAN ALTITUDE SICKNESS

Jan 29 2017

01. Progressive approach to high altitude, with regular stops of adaptation, particularly sleeping at intermediate elevations.

02. Arriving by air from sea level to high altitude, one must avoid, since the beginning of the journey, to take heavy and/or abundant meals, carbonated drinks, Coca Cola, coffee, cigarettes; it’s advisable to drink one or two cups of infusion of Coca, the mate de Coca, very hot and concentrated, with a few drops of lemon juice; It’s good to eat some candies or toffees with Coca, when available.

03. Arriving to the altitude the first day, one must rest and sleep as much as possible.

Jan 29 2017

Whoever meets the sacred green Coca in the Andean-Amazonian region can take away just its memory, because it remains firmly enclosed in its ancestral nest … or maybe Coca is really … a prisoner?

Going over the past years several confirmations arise in favor of a positive response.

In 1912 at The Hague (Netherlands), cocaine, together with green Coca as its raw materials, was included in the Opium Convention, signed in 1913 by the Government of Peru, so giving a start to a negative campaign against Coca plant, promoted by Peruvian psychiatrists (Valdizán, 1913).

Jan 29 2017

“And yet … it moves” … so claimed Galileo Galilei about the movement of the Earth around the Sun and the immobility of the star King, supporting the Copernican theory; he was accused of heresy, neglected by his contemporary society and he died alone, abandoned and nearly blind; however nowadays no one would ever contradict the confirmed hypothesis of Galileo.

Erythroxylum Coca is a shrub about one meter tall, with bright green thin oval shaped leaves, a creamy white flowers and reddish oval fruits similar to berries; it grows on the slopes of the Andes going down to the Amazon, between 600 and 2000 meters above sea level, where it is cultivated.

Jan 29 2017

Here the two sides of the medal of Coca:

GREEN:

Erythroxylum Coca: an alkaloids containing shrub of the Andean-Amazonian biodiversity.

Pijchu: bolus of leaves for traditional use of Coca, cultural and energizing.

Mate de Coca: infusion with Coca leaves, used as a natural medicine, digestive and remedy for altitude sickness.

Green products with Coca: aliments, sweets, drinks, liqueurs, creams, soaps, toothpastes, perfumes, ointments and other, processed with green Coca.

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