Meaning of burundangas by Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

Plural of burundanga . In Colombia we say mocking all hallucinogenic substances that seek to bend the will of the victim. They are substances that use criminals to steal easily and with the involuntary help of the affected. It is also called burundangas to plants from which you can extract this class of substances (beleño, belladonna, scopolia, estramonius, brugmansia, drunkenness, cocoa sabanero), all of the Solanaceae family. The most commonly used is scopolamine or hyoscin a drug extracted from the drunken tree, which is very strong and nullifies the will of those affected. This plant is also known as savannah cocoa or floripondium (Brugmansia arborea, family Solanaceae). It has very strong tropanic alkaloids. The main effect of these drugs is cinetosis (dizziness).