Ayahuasca
Timeline
| 1841 | Harmaline first synthesized from Syrian rue. | |
| 1852 | Earliest known western record of the psychoactive effects of ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) in the Brazilian Amazon. 1 [Details] | |
| 1858 | First widely read description of yage practices was published. 2 | |
| 1923 | A film of South American yage ceremonies was shown at the annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association. | |
| 1968 | Holmstedt, Lindgren, and Agurell hypothesize that the effects of ayahuasca are caused by a combination of naturally occurring monoamine oxidase inhibitors and DMT. 3 |
References
- Stafford P. Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Ronin, 1992.
- Ott, J. “Pharmahuasca, Anahuasca and Vinho da Jurema: Human Pharmacology of Oral DMT Plus Harmine". Yearbook for Ethnomedicine. 1997/98.