What Is Ayahuasca?

Ayahuasca is termed as a hallucinogenic drink prepared from the stem of Ayahuasca vine. Such drink, sometimes, but rarely made up of the Ayahuasca vine alone and almost invariably those of other plants are added.

Such additional ingredients are often leaves of any of three companions, companion plants – the psychotria viridis, chacruna. What is Ayahuasca? Well, this article gives you some relevant information in this regard.  

Moreover, there are several additional plants also added to such basic two or three plant mixture. No matter which additional plant is used for preparing the drink, the drink is still termed as Ayahuasca, which is a Quechua language. The word Ayahuasca can definitely have either connotation that generally depends mostly on cultural context.    

The term Ayahuasca is most commonly used in today’s time in Ecuador and Peru. Besides, in Colombia the most common term for both the vine and also drink is the Tukano. There are lots of words for Ayahuasca in some other indigenous languages. Moreover, the ritual use of such word is most common thread linking the religion and also spirituality of almost many indigenous people of the Upper Amazon. 

Apart from this, the use of Ayahuasca is mainly found as far as west as the Pacific coastal areas of Colombia, Panama and also Ecuador. More and more, such drink has also several primary actions such as it is a hallucinogen, purgative, emetic and also vermifuge.