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	Erowid Ayahuasca Vault: Basics
		Ayahuasca is traditionally prepared by boiling or soaking the stems of B. caapi along with various admixture plants, most commonly the N,N-DMT containing leaves of the Psychotria viridis bush.
		Outside the amazon basin, in cities around the world, ayahuasca is prepared with a wide variety of ingredients including pure chemicals (sometimes called 'pharmahuasca') or the root bark from mimosa hostilis/tenuiflora (sometimes called 'mimosahuasca'), and often the seeds of Perganum harmala (Syrian Rue) as a source of MAO-inhibiting harmala alkaloids.
		Because one of the major components of Ayahuasca is an MAOI, which acts to inhibit a key enzyme in your body responsible for processes in the brain and throughout the body, it is possible to have severe negative reactions to Ayahuasca.
	www.erowid.org /chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_basics.shtml (868 words)

	AYAHUASCA: An Overview of an Extraordinary Healing Plant and its Companions
		The word "Ayahuasca" refers to a medicinal and magical drink incorporating two or more distinctive plant species capable of producing profound mental, physical and spiritual effects when brewed together and consumed in a ceremonial setting.
		The oldest know object related to the use of ayahuasca is a ceremonial cup, hewn out of stone, with engraved ornamentation, which was found in the Pastaza culture of the Ecuadorean Amazon from 500 B.C. to 50 A.D. It is deposited in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the Central University (Quito, Ecuador).
		The harmala alkaloids in ayahuasca, primarily harmine and tetrahydroharmine, reversibly inhibit the neuronal enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO).
	www.biopark.org /ayahuasca.html (1406 words)

	CSP - 'Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature' edited by Ralph Metzner
		Establishing an extraordinary precedent, the Brazilian govern-ment in 1987 declared ayahuasca to be a legal substance when used within the context of religious practice, thus becoming the first nation worldwide in almost 1600 years to allow the use of plant hallucinogens for spiritual purposes by its non-indigenous inhabitants.
		They also insisted, though, that it was not necessarily the ayahuasca alone which was responsible, but rather partaking of the ayahuasca within the ritual context of the UDV ceremonial structure.
		The study of ayahuasca represents a challenge to main-stream culture through the phenomenon of new and novel forms of religious practice, exemplified by the ayahuasca churches of Brazil which have lately spread to North America and Europe.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/ayahuasca_hallucinogens.html (2679 words)

	Ayahuasca hallucinogenic substance info on drugs-plaza
		Ayahuasca correctly refers to a psychedelic combination of plants which varies in potency according to the skill of its maker.
		Ayahuasca is famous for the visions it generates and users seem to see the experience as real.
		Ayahuasca seems to induce and expand the hypnagogic or twilight state and at the same time keeps the individual awake and conscious.
	www.drugs-plaza.com /herbals_ayahuasca.php (252 words)

	Santo Daime - Archives - The Ritual and Religious Use of Ayahuasca in Contemporary Brazil
		Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew made from the Bannisteriosis caapi vine and the Psychotria viridis leaf, has been used for many purposes by the native inhabitants of the Western Amazon since time immemorial.
		Although, from a pharmacological point of view, ayahuasca may be considered a very potent psychoactive agent, rich in DMT and other alkaloids, the ample use made of it by these religious organizations does not seem to lead to any apparent ill results, as attested by recent medical studies of long time users.
		The Catalan anthropologist Josep Maria Fericgla, working on the Indian use of ayahuasca, like Victor Turner, considers this to be a psychic or spiritual function of symbols that was lost by Western societies when they abandoned their traditional ways of organizing unconscious drives and using these "sources of renovation" for individual and collective benefit.(Fericgla 1989:13).
	www.santodaime.org /archives/edward.htm (2310 words)

	Maya Ethnobotanicals - View Herb -> Banisteriopsis caapi (Ayahuasca) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ayahuasca brew is considered by the Amazon's tribes as one of the masters 'teacher plants'.
		In an ayahuasca vision, Irineu claims he was visited by a woman whom he called both 'Our Lady of Conception' and the 'Forest Queen.' She told him to found a spiritual doctrine in which the drinking of ayahuasca would be central to the ritualistic worship.
		It is our understanding that 'Ayahuasca' is the common name for a liquid decoction prepared from plants indigenous to the Amazon basin of South America, essentially the stem bank of different species of a jungle vine (Banisteriopsis sp.) and the tryptamine-rich plant Psychotria viridis.
	www.maya-ethnobotanicals.com /product_info.phtml/herbid_002 (1851 words)

	Refugio Altiplano - Article
		The name ayahuasca is from the Quechua language: huasca means "vine" or "liana" and aya means "souls" or "dead people" or "spirits".
		Ayahuasca is widely recognized by anthropologists as being probably the most powerful and most widespread shamanic hallucinogen.
		In this book, we will provide a look at the phenomenon of ayahuasca both from the perspectives of objective natural and social science (botany, chemistry, pharmacology, medicine, anthropology and psychology) and from the point of view of subjective experience -- a realm usually considered not amenable to scientific investigation.
	www.refugioaltiplano.org /article.htm (1695 words)

	Ayahuasca - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Because ayahuasca gave neither the high energy "kick" or euphoria of cocaine, but instead caused twenty-four to forty-eight hours of intense stomach pain and vomiting, it was soon removed from grocery store shelves.
		Historians are convinced that ayahuasca hallucinations, experienced by millions of Americans, led to the adoption of the Federal income tax, the "beat" music scene, and, later, the return of the Panama Canal.
		In the laboratory, ayahuasca was determined to have 7,534 active incredients, including gypsum, cobalt, hexavalent chromium, banana flavor, leptodyethyleparazobenzylamine acid, pee, eyelashes, peanut dust, peanuts, carrots, a dash of paprika, three cups of flour, beat gently at slow and then at medium for three minutes, and bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Ayahuasca (385 words)

	Psychoactive Herbs - Articles - AYAHUASCA - Healing with Ayahuasca
		Ayahuasca music is utilized only in drug ceremonies, and contrasts musico- logically to the considerable corpus of music which falls within a secular category.
		The role of ayahuasca is con- nected to the aura of omnipotence surrounding the healer.
		Although witches maintain that ayahuasca can give a man unlimited sexual access to women, nonetheless another important function of ayahuasqueros is to use their powers when under the drug to bring recalcitrant spouses who have strayed back to their homes once again.
	psychoactiveherbs.com /catalog/article_info.php?articles_id=4 (5098 words)

	Ayahuasca: The Magical Brew of the Amazonian Shamans
		There exist many different varieties of ayahuasca vine, over one hundred have in fact been identified, but the most commonly used in the Northern Peruvian Amazon is the Cielo ayahuasca one, which is reputed to be the most suitable for initiations, can deliver profound visions (and purging!!) and is safe to use.
		Ayahuasca and chacruna work synergetically not only on the biochemical plane - making possible the assimilation of the alkaloids otherwise attacked by the enzymes present in our digestive system - they are also believed to be, respectively, a "grandfather" and a "grandmother" plant spirit.
		Traditionally, the most important thing in an ayahuasca session is mainly for the shaman to have revelatory visions on the status of the participant in need of healing, whilst the mere "psychedelic" experience itself is confined to a realm of absolute non-importance for the subject receiving healing.
	www.ayahuasca-shamanism.co.uk /onanyanshobo-ayahuasca-info.htm (2407 words)

	Ayahuasca, shamanism, capitalism, ethnogens, healing, herbs, cancer, CAM,
		Ayahuasca is unique because its powerful psychopharmacological effect is dependent on a synergistic combination of active alkaloids from at least two plants: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine containing the crucial harmala alkaloids, along with the leafy plant Psychotria virdis or some other hallucinogenic admixture that contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT) alkaloids.
		While under the influence of ayahuasca, it is not uncommon for people to feel as though they have been lifted out of their bodies and catapulted into a strange, aerial excursion.
		The ayahuasca churches protested and a government committee was appointed to investigate the matter.
	www.jcrows.com /ayahuasca.html (2104 words)

	Ayahuasca-Wasi (Seminarios de Ayahuasca en Peru) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ayahuasca seems to put you back in touch with those perceptions, and there is a tremendous sense of clarity when considering very complicated personal issues.
		Thank you Mother Ayahuasca for healing me, in the way she brought me in the bardo realm, (the intermediate state between living and dying / waking and dreaming).
		Ayahuasca is working so deeply to purify our negativities, the suffering she brought to me was a profound healing process.
	www.ayahuasca-wasi.com /frances/cusco-testimonios-ing.html (1888 words)

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		Ayahuasca is used for various purposes, for instance as a medical drug, as a means to bring about clearvoyance or as an aid in celebrations or religious services.
		Ayahuasca even turned out very positive: it was supposed to have curative qualities and to give inspiration.
		By using ayahuasca in a religious setting a safe atmosphere is created, in which people can learn to handle this potent drug.
	www.ibogaine.org /ayahuasca.html (1346 words)

	AlterNet: Shamanism vs. Capitalism: The Politics of Ayahuasca
		Ayahuasca, the most celebrated hallucinogenic drug of the Amazon, is under threat from both anti-narcotics agencies and corporations that want to patent and sell it for profits.
		While under the influence of ayahuasca, it is not uncommon for people to feel as though they have been lifted out of their bodies and catapulted into a strange, aerial excursion.
		The ayahuasca churches protested and a government committee was appointed to investigate the matter.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=11215 (2230 words)

	Ayahuasca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Normally the ayahuasca brew is ingested orally, usually in a shamanic or ethnomedicinal context.
		The visonary experience of ayahuasca is so important and fundamental to the world view of the Amazonian Indians that the use of the potion by curenderos has largely survived the forces of acculturation, and metizos consult the ayahuasca plant teachers even in modern day cities.
		The most common ayahuasca admixture plant in use in Amazonian Peru, also used in Amazonian Ecuador and Brazil, is Psychotria viridis.
	physics.lunet.edu /~snow/ayahuasca.html (431 words)

	LILA -> Sociopsychotherapeutic Functions of Ayahuasca Healing in Amazonia
		Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis spp.) is a natural hallucinogenic drug used in healing rituals among various ethnic groups of the upper Amazon area in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
		In the collective ayahuasca rituals, in the initiation of the ayahuasqueros, and in the rare ingestion of the drug by ill people, the visionary experience appears to be equivalent to the stages delineated by Grof in his phases of the birthing process and its subsequent effects on individuals' adult experiences.
		When ayahuasca use is abandoned due to the lack of the presence of a real shaman, as in former times, and members are quick to use this explanation for the loss of the relative power of their leaders; the resulting social disoganization hypothetically results in new, emerging psychosomatic illnesses.
	www.lila.info /document_view.phtml?document_id=8 (8684 words)

	Ayahuasca, homepage of the great amazonian medicine
		The vine constitutes the primary ingredient of the Ayahuasca tea which is used widely used throughout the Amazon for healing and spiritual development.
		The ayahuasca trip is not especially unitive: indeed, one of its hallmarks is the sense of communication with other life forms or consciousnesses.
		And while a sense of “all is One” is sometimes reported in the midst of the ayahuasca experience, it’s more common to read reports of visions of phenomena – manifestation, not essence.
	www.ayahuasca.com (505 words)

	Ayahuasca Forums :: Index
		Discussions of the Ayahuasca vine, and of history, culture, customs, associations, beliefs, rituals, ceremonies, songs, traditions and practices old and new around it.
		Ayahuasca and analogue journeys and revelations, and interpretation and integration of experiences.
		Ayahuasca compared to other Plant Teachers, to Ayahuasca analogues, and to non-plant entheogens.
	forums.ayahuasca.com (520 words)

	Ayahuasca, hoasca, DMT, MAOI, ayahuasca law UDV, Uniao do Vegetal
		In Brazil, where these religions have their origins, the religious use of ayahuasca is expressly protected by law.
		In the United States, ayahuasca is not listed as a scheduled substance under federal or state law.
		Nevertheless, despite its status as a bona fide sacramental and the fact that it is brewed from unscheduled plants, chemical testing of ayahuasca may reveal the presence of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the synthetic version of which is controlled under federal and state law.
	www.cognitiveliberty.org /dll/ayahuasca_index.htm (270 words)

	Ayahuasca Summary
		"ayahuasca" or "ayawaska" in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, also to a lesser extent in Brazil ("vine of the dead" or "vine of souls": in Quechua, aya means "spirit," "ancestor," or "dead person," while waska means "vine" or "rope").
		Dietary taboos are almost always associated with the use of Ayahuasca; in the rainforest, these tend towards the purification of one's self- abstaining from spicy and heavily seasoned foods, fat, salt, caffeine, acidic foods (such as citrus) and sex before, after, or both before and after a ceremony.
		Ayahuasca is mentioned in the writings of some of the earliest missionaries to South America, but it wasn't for some time that it became commonly known in the West.
	www.bookrags.com /Ayahuasca (2860 words)

	LILA -> Ayahuasca, Religion, and Nature
		In ayahuasca, these dialogues are deepened and expanded to include all manner of elemental, plant, animal, ancestor, and deity.
		Ayahuasca allows access to this generous bandwidth of communication, and its repeated use cultivates familiarity with the ecology of souls which inhabit it.
		Modern ayahuasca religions are born both of the sylvan cosmos and a humanity sundered from that world.
	www.lila.info /document_view.phtml?document_id=12 (2104 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul: Livres en anglais: Joan Parisi Wilcox (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author's work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers.
		As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects.
		Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among "underground" spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow.
	www.amazon.fr /Ayahuasca-Visionary-Healing-Powers-Vine/dp/0892811315 (487 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Crossing Continents \| Peru seeks tribal cure for addiction
		He was especially intrigued by the ritual use of a sacred plant called ayahuasca, which creates altered states of consciousness, but which he says is non-addictive.
		Ayahuasca creates visions in which, Mabit says, users can engage with the underlying causes of their drug addiction.
		Only at this stage are patients ready to take ayahuasca, a plant that is officially considered a drug, but is also a sacred plant for Amazonian healers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3243277.stm (851 words)

	AYAHUASCA: SORCERER'S BREW
		Under the influence of ayahuasca, the shaman can see the distortion in the patient's energy pattern and attempt to restore a healthy pattern using suction, massage, medicinal plants, hydrotherapy, and restoration of the patient's soul.
		Ayahuasca potions are normally prepared by soaking or steeping lianas of Banisteriopsis caapi or related species for various lengths of time.
		In ayahuasca potions made using DMT-containing additives, it is most likely that DMT is the key visionary ingredient, responsible for most if not all of the potion's powerful entheogenic effects.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/vine.html (2522 words)

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