New Insights into the Chemical Composition of Ayahuasca
ACS Omega April 1, 2022 Luisina Castelli Rodríguez, Andrés Mariño López, Guillermo Moyna et al. 28 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychedelic beverage originally from the Amazon rainforest used in different shamanic settings for medicinal, spiritual, and cultural purposes. It is prepared by boiling in water an admixture of the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi, which is a source of β-carboline alkaloids, with plants containing N,N-dimethyltryptamine, usually Psychotria viridis. While previous studies have...