Ayahuasca is a South American psychoactive decoction prepared from Banisteriopsis caapi vine and a dimethyltryptamine -containing plant, used by Indigenous cultures in the Amazon and Orinoco basins as
Ayahuasca being brewed in Iquitos, Peru
Ayahuasca being prepared in the Napo region of Ecuador
Ayahuasca cooking in the Loreto region of Peru
Ayahuasca being prepared in Ecuador
Dimethyltryptamine, also known as N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is a serotonergic hallucinogen and investigational drug of the tryptamine family that occurs naturally in many plants and animals. DMT is used
Free-base DMT powder extracted from Mimosa hostilis root bark (left); vape cartridge made with free-base DMT extract (right).