According to The Heart of the Sky ? Travels Among the Maya, by Peter Canby ? Harper Collins in 1992, in a cave on an abandoned cacao plantation off the Hummingbird Highway were found hollow bones used as enema tubes. To balche, the honey-based fermented drink, was added a toad whose skin contains a cardiotapin (bufotoxin) similar to digitalis, as well as bufotenine. These drugs were absorbed through the colon wall, directly into the blood stream. On a funerary vase reproduced in a book by Yale art historian, Michael Coe, is a scene that includes four men with stoned smiles and glazed eyes sitting in front of four enema pots. (Signed) Anne K. Lowe
