Documents

Ayahuasca

• "Vine of the Soul" Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca, yage) usage, habitat, effects
  The entire B. caapi section from 'Food of the Gods' by Schultes & Hofman
• Amazonian Vine of Visions, by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
  Intro taken from 'Ayahuasca - Human Consciousness and the Spirit of Nature' by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
• Applied Psychonautics: Ayahuasca to pharmahuasca to anahuasca by Jonathon Ott
  An overview of the different varieties of Ayahuasca
• Ayahuasca & It's Mechanisms of Healing - by Marlene Dobkin de Rios
  A classic study on Ayahuasca taken from Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic healing in the Peruvian Amazon
• Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History
  by Dennis McKenna
• Banisteriopsis caapi from Ethnobotanical Leaflets
  Banisteriopsis caapi from Southern Illinois University Carbondale / Ethnobotanical Leaflets
• Biodynamic Constituents in Ayahuasca Admixture Plants: An Uninvestigated Folk Pharmacopoeia
  The Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Ethnobotany of Ayahuasca by Mckenna, Luna & Towers
• Ginsberg's Writings on Yage
  Information on his 1960 expedition to South America, along with other interesting excerpts.
• How to Make an Ayahuasca Analogue
  Based on Jonathan Ott's work.
• Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions by Benny Shanon Ph.D.
  Research supported in part by M.A.P.S.
• MAOIs -- Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors
  Miscellaneous Snippets of Info
• Pharmahuasca, Anahuasca and Vinho da Jurema; Human Pharmacology of Oral DMT Plus Harmine by Jonathon Ott
  Originally printed in the Yearbook for Ethnomedicine 1997/98
• Practical Uses of Yage
• Taking Ayahuasca by Peter Gorman
  Peter Gorman's account of an ayahuasca experience in the Amazon
• The Ayahuasca-Alien Connection
  Excerpts from "Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman"
• The Concept of Plants as Teachers Among Four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos by Luis Eduardo Luna
  A classic paper on Peruvian Shamanism from The Journal of Ethnopharmacology 11
• The Scientific Investigation of Ayahuasca: A Review of Past and Current Research
  McKenna, Callaway, & Grb
• The Use of Psychoactive Plants Among the Hupda-Maku
  A tribe's usage of Banisteriopsis caapi, Virola spp., Psychotria, and other plants
• When Ayahuasca Speaks - An Unexpected Venture into Healing by Peter Gorman
  Shamanism and the Healing powers of Ayahuasca