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B. caapi have been considered to play a minor role in the overall pharmacology of ayahuasca preparations. However, this is probably a narrow view.
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União do Vegetal, a group known to regularly combine
B. caapi with
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Introduction
"This bias towards visions and DMT clashes with the ethnographical evidence of local use. The terms most widely used for the medicinal brew—ayahuasca (in Peru and Brazil) and yajé (in Colombia)—refer both to the vine and to the brew itself, whether or not it contains chacruna. Some ethnic groups only cook the vine, without any additives, like the Tucano Oriental, the Marubo, the Achuar and the Matsiguenga."
Carlos Suárez Álvarez. Why You Will Never Get a Traditional Ayahuasca Treatment. 2017-08-10.
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The Purge and the Visions
