Ajahuaska

[duimnael|regs|Ajahuaska word berei in die Napo-omgewing van [Ecuador.]]
duimnael|regs|Caapi besig om oor 'n vuur te kook.

**Ajahuaska** (ook bekend as **ayahuasca**) verwys na enige van die verskillende psigoaktiewe afkooksels van die rankplant *Banisteriopsis caapi* wat gewoonlik met die blare van dimetieltriptamienhoudende spesies of met struike van die genus *Psychotria* berei word. Die brousel is in die 1950's die eerste keer deur die Harvard-etnobotanis Richard Evans Schultes akademies beskryf. Hy het opgemerk dit word deur die inheemse volke van die Amasonereënwoud in Colombia onder 'n verskeidenheid name vir divinatoriese en geneeskundige doeleindes gebruik. 

## Bereiding 
Dele van *B. caapi* word geweek en dan saam met blare van verskeie ander plante, insluitende *Psychotria viridis* of *Diplopterys cabrerana*, gekook. Die uiteindelike brousel bevat die kragtige hallusinogeniese alkaloïede N,N-dimetielltriptamien (DMT) en monoamienoksidase-inhiberende harmala-alkaloïede, wat nodig is om die DMT oraal aktief te maak. 

Brousels kan ook van plante sonder DMT gemaak word; *Psychotria viridis* word dan vervang deur plante soos *Justicia pectoralis*, Brugmansia of seremoniële tabak, ook bekend as *mapacho*, of soms geheel weggelaat sonder enige plaasvervanger.

## Gebruik 
Ajahuaska word grotendeels as 'n godsdienstige sakrament gebruik. Volgelinge van die Brasiliaanse geloof Santo Daime maak openlik gebruik daarvan.

## Verwysings 
### Bibliografie
* Adelaars, Arno. *Ayahuasca. Rituale, Zaubertränke und visionäre Kunst aus Amazonien,*  [Duits]
* Marlene Dobkin De Rios. *Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon, (2nd ed.)*. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1984.  [Engels]
*Graham Hancock, *Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind*. London: Century, 2005.  http://www.grahamhancock.com/supernatural/ [Engels]
* Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing. 'Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul'. Vermont: Destiny Books, 2006.  [Engels]
* Bruce F. Lamb. *Rio Tigre and Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manuel Córdova*. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1985.  [Engels]
* Luis Eduardo Luna & Pablo Amaringo. *Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of A Peruvian Shaman*. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1999.  [Engels]
* Luis Eduardo Luna & Stephen F. White, eds. ''Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine*. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic, 2000.  [Engels]
* Terence McKenna. *Food of the Gods: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution*. [Engels]
* Ralph Metzner, red. *Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature''. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1999.  [Engels]
* Ralph Metzner (red.) *Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca*: Park Street Press,U.S.; 2 edition (Jan 2006). ,  [Engels]
* Jeremy Narby. *The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge*. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998.  [Engels]
* P.J. O'Rourke, *All the Trouble in the World*.  New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994.   [Engels]
* Jonathan Ott. *Ayahuasca Analogues: Pangæan Entheogens*. Kennewick, Wash.: Natural Products, 1994.  [Engels]
* Ott, J. 1999. *Pharmahuasca: Human pharmacology of oral DMT plus harmine*, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 31(2): I7I-177. [Engels]
* Alex Polari de Alverga. *Forest of Visions: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality, and the Santo Daime Tradition*. Rochester, Vt.: Park Street, 1999.  [Engels]  
* Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff. *The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs Among the Indians of Colombia*. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1975.  [Engels]
* Benny Shanon. *The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.  [Engels]

### Dokumentêre rolprente 
* Alistair Appleton, *The Man Who Drank the Universe*, 30 min. 2005 [Engels]
* Dean Jefferys;  *Shamans of the Amazon*, 52 min. 2001 [Engels]
* Jan Kounen, *Autres mondes* [Frans]
* Glenn Switkes,  *Night of the Liana*, 45 min. 2002 [Engels]
* Armand Bernardt, ''L'Ayahuasca, le Serpent et Moi*, 52 min. 2003 [Frans]
* Anna Stevens, *Woven Songs of the Amazon'', 54 min. 2006 [Engels]
* Rudolf Pinto do Amaral & Harald Scherz, ["Heaven Earth"], 60 min. 2008 [Engels]
* BBC - Bruce Parry's *Amazon*, 2008, Episode 2 [Engels]