Piper darienense

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Piper darienense is a flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. It is called Duermeboca in Panama. In El Chocó, the plant is used as a fish poison.{{cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/p.html | title = Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary | first = Jim | last = Duke | publisher = National Genetic Resources Program | accessdate = 2007-10-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071115001643/http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/p.html | archive-date = 2007-11-15 | url-status = dead }} The Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, call it Kana, and they use it in a bath, for snakebites and colds.

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