Ayahuasca is an entheogenic drink prepared from segments of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi. Sections of vine are boiled with leaves from any of a large number of other plants (such as Psychotria viridis or Diplopterys cabrerana) yielding a brew containing the powerful hallucinogenic alkaloids harmaline, harmine, d-tetrahydroharmine, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine, combined with an MAOI.
Other names:
- "caapi" in Brazil
- "yage" or "yaje" in Colombia
- "ayahuasca" in Ecuador and Peru ("vine of the dead" or "vine of souls": in Quechua aya means "spirit," "ancestor," or "dead person," while huasca means "vine" or "rope")
- Acacia maidenii (Maiden's Wattle) - bark
- Acacia phlebophylla (Maiden's Wattle)
- Anadenanthera peregrina, colubrina, excelsa, macrocarpa
- Banisteriopsis caapi - leaves?
- Mimosa hostilis (Jurema) - root bark
- Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass)
- Phalaris tuberosa (Phalaris aquatica, harding grass)
- Psychotria viridis (Chacruna) - leaves
- Peganum harmala (Syrian Rue) - seeds
- Banisteriopsis caapi