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Ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis caapi, is a liana which herbal medicinal plant doctors traditionally define as their master plant par excellence.
Ayahuasca is combined with another plant, the Chacruna, Psychotria viridiris, to form a drink or "chicha", as Ayahuasca users call it, which is named Ayahuasca.
This chicha works as a physical purifier, it facilitates meditation, balances energies and awakens intuition.
This has a scientific interpretation:
An ancestral discovery of the Amazon natives, the mixture of both plants shows deep and fine knowledge, because the Ayahuasca liana is rich in carbolines (harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine) that inhibit the action of monoaminooxydase enzyme (MAO), which is naturally found in the digestive tube and the liver. This enzyme destroys dymethyltriptamine (DMT), a substance contained by the Chacruna plant, which competes with ser6tonin for 5-HT 1 and 2 receptors. When MAO is blocked, endogenous catecholamines and the levels of serotonin increase, while DMT is not destroyed and it can reach the brain where it produces an intense psychotropic effect. (Rosa Glove, The Dead's Liana comes to the Rescue of Life, 2002, 24-25).
The intake of Ayahuasca without Chacruna only has emetic effects. However, the master plant par excellence for herbal healers is the Ayahuasca.
How they reached this conclusion without the painstaking laboratory studies that would have been indispensable for any scientist is a question we will leave momentarily unanswered.
According to Amazon tradition, master plants are the ones which, properly consumed, can generate knowledge through dreams, visions, perceptions and intuitions about their healing properties and the healing properties of other plants. Besides, due to their endogenous properties, they also give us an introspective vision of ourselves and of life in general. They thus help us interpret events or actions that have influenced the course of our life