Chopped pieces of Ayahuasca vine, or Banisteriopsis caapi, are waiting to be pulverized and cooked into hallucinogenic medicine

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Chopped pieces of Ayahuasca vine, or Banisteriopsis caapi, are waiting in a sack to be pulverized and cooked into an Ayahuasca brew in the Amazon jungle. The vine, also known as vine of the souls or vine of the dead, contains Monoamine oxidase inhibitors which play an important part in making the hallucinogenic medicine orally active for human consumption.

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Location: Ayahuasca Foundation, Nauta, Iquitos, Maynas, Peru, South America
Photo credit: © Brian Van Tighem / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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