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Piper auritum , and Piper tuberculatum , are used against dermatological illnesses in Mexico [ 61 ] . In Puerto Rico and the Caribbean chewed leaves of Piper amalgo are put on bleeding cuts [ 100 66 ] . Caribs of Dominica considered Piper species to be charms [ 16 ] . Hunting dogs were rubbed with Piper species plant leaves when bathed in order to make them "good" in the chase [ 16 ] .
Roucouyennes (Caribs) rubbed their dogs with Hibiscus abelmoschus with the expectation that its pungent smell would prevent jaguars from biting their dogs [ 21 ] . Tukanoan tribes in South America also believed that deer had an inoffensive body odour that was linked to their diet of "pure" foods such as fresh sprouts, young green leaves and sweet fruits [ 31 ] . Tukanoan tribes also believed that people and animals have smells related to the food that they eat and the environment that they lived in [ 31 ] . This association of animal smells with their environment is perhaps what the informant was referring to in his reference to an agouti and the smell of its Piper marginatum "bed".
Piper auritum leaf juice is applied topically to remove ticks and head lice in El Salvador and Ecuador respectively [ 92 ] . In Guatemala, Panama and Columbia the juice of crushed leaves of Piper species or the decoction of roots are drunk or used in baths for snakebites or rubbed onto the body as a snake repellent [ 63 95 139 ] . In Eastern Nicaragua and Jamaica Piper hispidum is used in remedies for colds, fever, stomach aches and for aches and pains [ 116 53 ] . In Trinidad, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean countries Piper amalgo leaf infusions are used as ritual baths or baths to perfume the body [ 52 16 ] .
There is evidence that some of the plants used by hunters are eaten by deer and possibly by other game animals (these are Costus species, Eschweilera species, Piper species and Pithecellobium species [ 32 ] . Tukanoan tribes also recognise the complex pheromonal system of chemical communication that deer and other animals use.
' Such behaviour usually ends up with having to pay the piper, that is, pagar los platos rotos `to pay for the broken plates.
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