Also con-. [Native Peruvian, f. cundur, cuntur eagle, condor + ango vine.] A Peruvian climbing shrub Gonolobus Cundurango, the bark of which was introduced into therapeutic use in 1871. According to the Sydenham Societys Lexicon, ten or twelve different barks have been included under this name, the kind first used being that of Pseusmagennetus equatoriensis.
1871. N. Yk. Druggists Circular (in Pharm. Jrnl., 18 Nov., 405). The Cundurango or Condor vine is a climbing vine resembling much in its habits the grape vine of our own forests.
1871. Lancet, II. 621. Condurango.
1872. Pharmac. Jrnl., 27 April, 861. In Ecuador it is the condor which employs, as an antidote to the venom of serpents, the leaves of a species of Gonolobus, called for this reason cundur-angu, or the vine of the condor.
1877. trans. Ziemssens Cycl. Med., VII. 252. The latest remedy suggested is the Cundurango bark.