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. ❋ [email protected] (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 (2010)
The chief plant, a liana called bannisteriopsis caapi contains vision-inducing DMT. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The page showed an illustration of the ayahuasca vine, Banisteriopsis caapi. ❋ 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. ❋ Sting (2003)
… This is all I have seen or learnt of caapi or aya-huasca. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
With a chew of caapi and a pinch of niopo, one feels good! ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
There is a vast literature on yagé and ayahuasca Banisteriopsis caapi. ❋ 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. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
… 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. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
Ayahuasca, known also as yagé or caapi, is the vision vine, the vine of the soul, the most curious and celebrated hallucinogenic plant of the Amazon. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
The Macú had something in mind for that evening—a party of sorts, nothing ceremonial, just a few men hanging out and taking caapi. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
None of these criteria made sense botanically, and as far as Schultes could tell, all the plants were referable to one species, Banisteriopsis caapi. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
He called it Banisteria caapi, a name later changed to Banisteriopsis caapi, more commonly known in other parts of the Amazon as yagé or ayahuasca. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
It was a relative of Banisteriopsis caapi, the sacred plant first found over a century before by Richard Spruce in his own period of trial on the banks of another of the wild streams of the Río Negro. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
As a botanist he appears to have been far more interested in the plants employed in the ceremony, particularly a strange bitter drink, brownish green in color and known to the Tukano as caapi. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
At Puerto Limón he drank an infusion derived solely from the bark of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)