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ˌɑ yəˈwɑ skəayahuas·ca

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Wiktionary

  1. ayahuascanoun

    A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.

  2. Etymology: Latin American Spanish, from Quechua ayawasca, from aya ‘spirit, ancestor’ + wasca ‘vine’.

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  1. Ayahuasca

    Ayahuasca is a South American psychoactive and entheogenic brewed drink traditionally used both socially and as a ceremonial or shamanic spiritual medicine among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, and more recently in Western society. The tea causes altered states of consciousness often known as "psychedelic experiences" which include visual hallucinations and altered perceptions of reality. Ayahuasca is commonly made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, the Psychotria viridis shrub or a substitute, and other ingredients including Justicia pectoralis, one of the Brugmansia (especially Brugmansia insignis and Brugmansia versicolor, or a hybrid breed) or Datura species, and mapacho (Nicotiana rustica).A chemically similar preparation, sometimes called "pharmahuasca", can be prepared using N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and a pharmaceutical monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), such as moclobemide or isocarboxazid.Internationally, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances lists the active ingredient DMT as a schedule 1 drug, but does not control the cultivation of plants from which it can be derived, similarly to the "legal grey area" position of psychedelic plants like peyote and other mescaline-containing cacti.

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  1. Ayahuasca

    Ayahuasca, also commonly called yagé, is a brew of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. It is either mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine-containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria or with the leaves of the Justicia pectoralis plant which doesn't contain DMT. The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Peru, is known by a number of different names. It has been reported that some effects can be had from consuming the caapi vine alone, but that DMT-containing plants remain inactive when drunk as a brew without a source of monoamine oxidase inhibitor such as B. caapi. How indigenous peoples discovered the synergistic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew remains unclear. While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ayahuasca in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ayahuasca in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ayahuasca in a Sentence

  1. Naomi Watts:

    It’s difficult to play high, i’d never even heard of ayahuasca before. I can’t remember now if you actually see me vomit, but allegedly that’s what happens. God knows why anyone would want to do that.

  2. Ingeborg Oswald:

    He went online and started reading all these positive things about ayahuasca, which is something I had never heard of before, apparently there's a huge, positive movement toward ayahuasca. And he thought that that would help him maybe discover who he was.

  3. Michelle Rodriguezwishes she:

    I did everything I could possibly do to hide from myself, i’ll tell you that my Ayahuasca trip made me sad that he left me here. It wasn’t a sadness that he’s gone, it was more like a jealousy that he’s there first.

  4. Rick Doblin:

    At a time when drug policy is being reevaluated, when marijuana looks like it's on the road toward legalization, when psychedelic medicine is moving forward through the FDA and we can envision a time when psychedelics are available as prescription medicines, how ayahuasca should be handled in a regulatory context is really up in the air.

  5. Charles Grob:

    Why would having an ayahuasca experience appeal to anyone? i think people are searching for some degree of a psycho spiritual transformation.

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