caapi

Made from the vine Banisteriopsis caapi (called caapi) and the leaf Psychotria viridis, (known as chakruna) ayahuasca is considered among natives in the Amazon to be a sacred plant medicine.

FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011

Made from the vine Banisteriopsis caapi (called caapi) and the leaf Psychotria viridis, (known as chakruna) ayahuasca is considered among natives in the Amazon to be a sacred plant medicine.

FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011

At the conference many papers dealt with a visionary drug called ayahuasca, a harsh-tasting thick infusion often made by boiling Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis leaves.

Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD? Craig K. Comstock 2010

The chief plant, a liana called bannisteriopsis caapi contains vision-inducing DMT.

1491: excerpts part 2 2009

There a chemical archaeologist from the University of Tarapacá, Juan Pablo Ogalde, found traces of a psychoactive drug from a jungle vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, in hair from two naturally mummified bodies unearthed from a Tiwanaku site in the Atacama Desert.

The Undead 2008

The page showed an illustration of the ayahuasca vine, Banisteriopsis caapi.

Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

From my reading I had gleaned that ayahuasca is brewed from two indigenous plants, a liana known as Banisteriopsis caapi and a shrub of the coffee genus, Psychotria viridis.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

… A Brazilian friend said that when he once took a full dose of caapi he saw all the marvels he had read of in the Arabian Nights pass rapidly before his eyes as in a panorama.

One River Wade Davis 1996

With a chew of caapi and a pinch of niopo, one feels good!

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the morning, once back to his senses; he pursued the botanical identity of caapi and found to his astonishment that it was an unknown species, a liana in a family of plants that had never before been known to have narcotic or even medicinal properties.

One River Wade Davis 1996