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What is ayahuasca? Contributed by Aoi Garasu
In Quechua language, it means "vine of the soul". There are also cases when it is described as a herbal concoction made by boiling together the crawling plant banisteriopsos caapi of the Malpigiaceae order and the leaves of the Psychotria Viridis of the Rubiaceae order. However, fundamentally, it is a system of spirit healing that has been relayed from generation to generation of the Shipibo people living in Amazon wetlands. The active ingredient is DMT(Dimethyltriptamine) which is abundant in the natural world and even can be found being secreted in the human brain. Since normally the human body has enzymes that decompose DMT, it is brewed together with plants containing alkaloids such as harmine that inhibit those enzymes. If you drink this brew, subtle bodily sensations that have been ignored previously, as well as surrounding sounds will begin to get misinterpreted by the brain as visual information. The first people who experienced this phenomenon deemed the resulting complex visual(etc.) patterns to be mere hallucinations and called it the "strongest hallucinogen in the world". The shaman takes the brew together with the patient; he then translates the current state of their spiritual health into colorful geometric patterns and analyzes them. Following, he would perform a medicine song called Icaro tailored to the needed situation. ------------------------- By doing that, it is apparently possible to affect the patient's mind strongly enough to cure depression, PTSD and such. Also, the shaman may change the leaf variety as well as their amount depending on the patient's pathology. While it secretly holds an enormous potential to destroy the blockages generated by the modern society, the current applications are too sophisticated for them to become mainstream.
"Ayahuasca, pirate edition" like they do it in the west, made from ingredients that were the easiest to import such as the one that Marisa has prepared is an unregulated and a dangerous way to take it.
Because of its potency and propensity to cause nausea it never got popular and instead got superseded by other, more recreational drugs and thus, fallen into obscurity. However, in Japan, recently there has been an initiative by a group of sympathizers to demystify and revive this craft. Although, in a different form. There have been several successes. For example, through combining it with chiropractic massage: the practitioner who drank the brew would be able to clearly see the meridians of the patient. Combined with acupuncture and moxibustion, the practitioner would be able to discover weakened parts of the body by the geometric patterns they give off and treat them right away.
Also, applications such as training of bodily awareness in pro athletes, mental trauma removal, martial art technique visualization, meditation and accelerated learning enhancements for the practitioners of the above, musical and visual work production enhancement; are slowly beginning to emerge in various fields.
That said, ayahuasca still can cause harm. Inner journey is always an intense experience. If one carelessly forgets to give it respect...
In Quechua language, it means "vine of the soul". There are also cases when it is described as a herbal concoction made by boiling together the crawling plant Banisteriopsis caapi of the Malpighiaceae family and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis of the Rubiaceae family.
However, fundamentally, it is a system of spirit healing that has been relayed from generation to generation of the Shipibo people living in Amazon wetlands. The active ingredient is DMT(Dimethyltryptamine) which is abundant in the natural world and even can be found being secreted in the human brain. Since normally the human body has enzymes that decompose DMT, it is brewed together with plants containing alkaloids such as harmine that inhibit those enzymes. If you drink this brew, subtle bodily sensations that have been ignored previously, as well as surrounding sounds will begin to get misinterpreted by the brain as visual information. The first people who experienced this phenomenon deemed the resulting complex visual(etc.) patterns to be mere hallucinations and called it the "strongest hallucinogen in the world".
The shaman takes the brew together with the patient; he then translates the current state of their spiritual health into colorful geometric patterns and analyzes them. Following, he would perform a medicine song called Icaro tailored to the needed situation. By doing that, it is apparently possible to affect the patient's mind strongly enough to cure depression, PTSD and such. Also, the shaman may change the leaf variety as well as their amount depending on the patient's pathology.
While it secretly holds an enormous potential to destroy the blockages generated by the modern society, the current applications are too sophisticated for them to become mainstream.
"Ayahuasca, pirate edition" like they do it in the west, made from ingredients that were the easiest to import such as the one that Marisa has prepared is an unregulated and a dangerous way to take it.
Because of its potency and propensity to cause nausea it never got popular and instead got superseded by other, more recreational drugs and thus, fallen into obscurity. However, in Japan, recently there has been an initiative by a group of sympathizers to demystify and revive this craft. Although, in a different form. There have been several successes. For example, through combining it with chiropractic massage: the practitioner who drank the brew would be able to clearly see the meridians of the patient. Combined with acupuncture and moxibustion, the practitioner would be able to discover weakened parts of the body by the geometric patterns they give off and treat them right away.
Also, applications such as training of bodily awareness in pro athletes, mental trauma removal, martial art technique visualization, meditation and accelerated learning enhancements for the practitioners of the above, musical and visual work production enhancement; are slowly beginning to emerge in various fields.
That said, ayahuasca still can cause harm. Inner journey is always an intense experience. If one carelessly forgets to give it respect...What is ayahuasca? Contributed by Aoi Garasu