What makes ayahuasca fascinating is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it. It's made really of two different sources: on the one hand, this woody liana which has in it a series of beta-carbolines, harmine, harmaline, mildly hallucinogenic -- to take the vine alone is rather to have sort of blue hazy smoke drift across your consciousness -- but it's mixed with the leaves of a shrub in the coffee family called Psychotria viridis.
Ono što ayahuascu čini izuzetnom nije čisti farmaloški potencijal ove smjese, već kako se sintetizira. Napravljena je od dva različita izvora: s jedne strane, ova drvena lijana koja u sebi ima čitav niz beta-karbolina, harmina, harmalina, blagih halucinogena -- uzmete li samo ovu biljku osjetili biste kao da plavi magloviti dim struji kroz vašu svijest -- ali je pomiješana s lišćem grmlja iz porodice kave nazvan Psychotria viridis.