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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A hallucinogenic brew made from the bark and stems of a tropical South American vine of the genus Banisteriopsis, especially B. caapi, mixed with other psychotropic plants, used especially in shamanistic rituals by certain Amazonian Indian peoples.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.
  2. n. Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish, from Quechua ayawasca, from aya ‘spirit, ancestor’ + wasca ‘vine’. (Wiktionary)
  2. American Spanish, from Quechua, rope of the dead, narcotic : aya, corpse + huasca, rope. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “For better or worse, there are ample byproducts of drug culture's intellect, including, according to Israeli researchers, the Old Testament, where the drug in a popular drink of the time called ayahuasca induced "the seeing of light and profound religious and spiritual feelings.”

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  • “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.”

    The Huffington Post: Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?

  • “I have another one for you - In the Amazon Basin the people use an herbal concoction known as ayahuasca or yage to have visions.”

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  • “In contrast, as vividly described in his penultimate chapter, he samples a South American hallucinogenic mixture known as ayahuasca and is pretty much flattened by the experience.”

    "Naturalism" as behavioral determinism and Zen

  • “The church, while nominally Christian, is the home of a syncretic religious group that uses as its core sacrament an ancient medicine derived from plant materials known as ayahuasca, and it is said to induce extraordinary and profound visions.”

    Broken Music, A Memoir

  • “In 1932, at the age of fourteen, Gomez was given the herbal hallucinogenic drink called ayahuasca by local shamans in order to recover his strength following a period of illness.”

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  • “At the conference many papers dealt with a visionary drug called ayahuasca, a harsh-tasting thick infusion often made by boiling”

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  • “Researchers are studying a plant called ayahuasca, and chacruna from the Peruvian rain forest that may one day treat a variety of ailments, including”

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  • “Aiming to do this in "a safe and ancient place," Elenbaas ventured to Peru, where the plant-based hallucinogenic brews known as ayahuasca are shared as sacraments in tribal rituals.”

    East Bay Express

  • “It's also got loads of great historical footage from the early research but also talks to the new generation of researchers looking at compounds such as ayahuasca and ibogaine, who are now the senior figures in this growing area.”

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  • chained_bear Seen here. Apr 13, 2009

  • avivamagnolia ~various names for "ayahuasca"

    * "caapi", "cipó," "hoasca" or "daime" in Brazil
    * "yagé" or "yajé" (both pronounced �?aˈhe) in Colombia; popularized in English by the beat generation writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in The Yage Letters. The name yajé is also mentioned in an X-files episode.
    * "ayahuasca" or "ayawaska" ("vine of the dead" or "vine of souls": in Quechua, aya means "spirit," "ancestor," or "dead person," while waska means "vine" or "rope") in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, and to a lesser extent in Brazil. The spelling ayahuasca is the hispanicized version of the name; many Quechua or Aymara speakers would prefer the spelling ayawaska. The name is properly that of the plant B. caapi, one of the primary sources of beta-carbolines for the brew.
    * "natem" amongst the indigenous Shuar people of Peru.
    * "Grandmother"
    A Jan 17, 2009

  • avivamagnolia Ayahuasca (pronounced ajaˈwaska in the Quechua language) is any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from the Banisteriopsis spp. vine, usually mixed with the leaves of the Psychotria bush. It was first described academically in the early 1950's by the late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by Amerindians of Amazonian Colombia.
    Jan 17, 2009

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