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What is Ayahuasca ?
This brew, also called yage, or yaje, in Colombia, ayahuasca in Ecuador and Peru (Inca "vine of the dead, vine of the souls," aya means in Quechua "spirit," "ancestor," "dead person," while huasca means "vine," "rope") caapi in Brazil, is prepared from segments of a species of the vine Banisteriopsis Caapi. Sections of vine are boiled with leaves from any of a large number of potential admixture plants resulting in a tea that contains the powerful hallucinogenic alkaloids harmaline, harmine, d-tetrahydroharmine, and often dimethyltryptamine (DMT). This medicine has been used for millenia in order to enter the sacred supernatural world, to heal, divine, and worship.
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Anything relating to Ayahuasca or its chemical constituents. Subjects such as extractions, preparation, botany, and shamanism are all more than welcome.
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The plants that are used to make Ayahuasca are legal, but some of the compounds contained within are not. This list is to be used for legal, scientific discussion, and is NOT to be used to encourage or facilitate the illegal production of, trafficking in, or use of scheduled substances in any way.