AYAHUASCA (banisteriopsis caapi)

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	AYAHUASCA
	*banisteriopsis caapi*

Name
AYAHUASCA

Scientific Name
banisteriopsis caapi

AYAHUASCA

Names that this plant receives:

Castilian: gold ayahuasca, yagé, rattan, captain, natema.

Gallego and Portuguese: caapi.

Family: malpigiáceas.

Original: Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Brazilian Amazonia.

Where to find it: next to the water obstacles.

Used part medicinally: the stem (its wood).

Type: ligneous rattan of long sarmentosos stems of about 3 mm of diameter, with entrenudos distanced enough.

Leaves: of about 8 18 cm in length and 4 8 cm wide, they are opposed, whole, pecioladas, ovadas- lanceoladas with cleared base, glabras by the beam and barely pilosas by envés.

Flowers: of 14 mm and with pink petals, they are arranged in small umbelas. They are terminlles and axillary cimoso- paniculadas, with the axis and the covered small branches of a grayish tomento

Active components and principles:

alcaloides

· Harmina (1 2%).

· Harmalina.

· Banisterina.

Saponinas (0.66 %)

Medicinal properties:

Narcotic and estu pefaciente psicodélico.

Afrodisíaco.

Therapeutic indications:

Psychiatric affections.

Precautions with this plant:

This is a toxic plant whose symptoms of poisoning are pallor, profuse perspiration, salivation, expansion to pupilar and nauseas. Some cases of mortal poisoning exist.

Preparations:

Yagé: 1kg in several liters of water during one hour.

Maceration.

Notes of interest:

This plant is the narcotic drink base of the Indians of the Amazon, call yagé. The Indians meet in anticipated places to make divination or treatment rites. On these rites the element bases is yagé, chicha, will cure and others, that are used like alterativa drug of the conscience in the celebrations, or to locate to the enemies, to ask indulgence the protective spirits, or to detect the causes and the remedies of a disease.

The wizard, who is almost always the head of the tribe, cuts the rattan of about 25 cm. in length, contunde, lets it macerate in waters hours and soon the crust throws to the water on the verge of boiling, in addition it adds to the container two or three plants more.

The effect that produces this "yagé" is similar to the lived one in the maternal belly; therefore, the experience supposes an encounter with the tribal divinities, the creation of the universe and the first human beings and animals.

This original plant of the forests of Amazon, considers a sagrada plant of great power. Chamánes through the AMAZON, uses Ayahuasca in their ceremonies to penetrate deeply in the spiritual world. The Chamanes understands that the man is employee of the nature for the medicine, the food, the shelter etc... The Chamanes also recognizes that the plants not only can have medicinal but also spiritual characteristic characteristics.

Ayahuasca comes from the Quechua language that means "vid of antepasados" or "vid of muertos" or " grapevine of the souls ". AYA in Quechua "Espíritu" "antepasado" "persona muerta" HUASCA in Quechua "vid".

The botanical name for this plant is Banisteriopsis caapi (Malpighiaceae). Pieces of the stem of this plant along with boil other plants that consider aggregates to the Ayahuasca.

Old chamanes in the Amazon has used the Ayahuasca like inestimable aid to the religion, curativo and like source of being able. The use of Ayahuasca is considered a form espiritualidad, because the spirit of the plant according to chamanes can direct to a person through the spiritual world and help to discover many secrets them, or in some cases can also produce death when the incorrect use of this plant is made.

What happens when Ayahuasca takings (yagé)?

What happens when you drink Ayahuasca? It continues being a mystery... The studies done in their history offer little clarity in the transformacionales characteristics of the Ayahuasca. Diverse effects of the Ayahuasca follow a way progressive that includes cathartic and psicodelicos processes. The time is an important factor in this progression. Each experience reveals understanding degrees according to the depth of previous experiences and the level of maturity of the participants. The important thing to recognize is that the Ayahuasca helps in many diverse aspects to the maturity of the individual in its spiritual way.

The Ayahuasca is not a substance that can be defined with a consistent effect. The constellations of the memory activated by Ayahuasca cannot be programmed, although the trip IF it can be directed. The farmacológicas characteristics of the compound in the interaction with the biological antecedents are not sufficient to define the influence in the Psiquis of the individual. The compound will reciprocally build always with the psicologico set of each individual (previous motivation, attitude, personality, humor, experiences) and the atmosfera where it is made.

The equation of those structures will be the result that influence the effect and the class of trip that will be experienced. The substance exerts its effect on the brain according to the influence of the medio.ambiente, a synthesis of the surrounding atmosphere and the presence of its guide, plus the present emotional state of the participant. A person who the solo taking, for example, will have a totally different experience to which the taking with somebody who can direct the energy created by the Ayahuasca, canalizing its effects and forming a trip towards the place in the heart in where the God resides, that is the source for the transformation.

The first stage of the effect is the change of the sensitivity of the senses. During the first ninety minutes, hearing is accentuated and the sensations are extended. Here the trip can take any direction. Then one incorporates other dimensions, leaving the plane of the physical body, a sense of flotation in the air can happen.

The Minks of the Ayahuasca

A person who experiences the sessions of Ayahuasca only shows to the mental improvement and psychic notable, comparable to that one looked for with intense psycotherapy. The Ayahuasca establishes significant changes in a period of the very short time. Ayahuasca consolidates an essential acceptance and an alignment with the simplicity of its spiritual identity. The change that is in our values and priorities transforms our presence, our sense living of the one same one.

With Ayahuasca, an inner sound is heard commonly, that it absolutely often drives a spontaneous explosion of vocalizations and imitations, with marked difference the conventional human language. The tryptaminos can drive a class of undulation of face muscles, showing results in the production of a modulated vocal wave.

What is more interesting is the sound, that gains long energy the more is maintained, this it can get to be really visible - as if the vibratory waves changed to the visible phantom or inducing a vibratory excitation of the air. These observations suggest although the wave takes place with the sound, can have an electromagnetic component. This peculiar phenomenon of the wave will continue being generated outside the mouth and of the graves of the nose and will be visible in the surrounding air while they are continued the vocalizations.

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