AYAHUASCA

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca, also commonly called yagé, is a hallucinogenic brew of various plant infusions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. It is either mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine -containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria or with the leaves of the Justicia pectoralis plant which doesn't contain DMT. The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Peru, is known by a number of different names .

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ayahuasca

Noun

  1. A giant vine native to South America (especially ), noted for its psychotropic properties.
  2. Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.


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