Banisteriopsis Caapi
	Common name: Ayahuasca Botanical name: Banisteriopsis Caapi Family: Malpighiaceae Active chemicals: Harmine, Harmaline Preparations: Ayahuasca Effects: MAO Inhibitor
The vines of the plant are used to make a sacred hallucinogenic drink commonly called [prep=Ayahuasca]ayahuasca[/prep] or yage which is used ceremonially by shamans in the western half of the Amazon Valley and on the Pacific slopes of the Colombian and Ecuadorean Andes.

Articles

Growing Info

Medicine

Ayahuasca Healing Sessions
In Iquitos, when a poor person becomes ill and believes he is suffering from a disease caused by the malice of another, a visit to an ayahuasca healer may be suggested by a relative or friend. In Belen, Wils found that over 25% of the people he questioned preferred <i>empiricos</i> (folk healers) to doctors (1967: 131). My own impressions are that this is a conservative figure. Certainly, residents of Belen tend to seek assistance in times of crises rather than at the first sign of trouble or for preventative reasons.

Vine of the Souls: A Closer Look at Amazonia's Visionary Medicine
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that a plant has no mind. I tell them that a plant is alive and conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive.

Preparations

Shamanism

The Spirit Vine by Natema
There is more to human consciousness, to our whole experiential journey through life, than we currently acknowledge. Yet the interpretation of the nature of religious experience or transpersonal states of consciousness varies widely.

Back to Psychoactive Plants

"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. "
- Stanislav Grof