Health Making Ayahausca

[vegan]

So to me, the most fascinating thing about ayahuasca is how the indigenous people discovered it.

It does seem baffling how they could have stumbled upon such combinations, but I think we can make it make sense by considering mushrooms first.
Edible vegetables are actually hard to come across in the jungle; so there's no doubt that indigenous people would have tried the mushrooms they found.

Now, psychedelics are already ineffable enough for us, who know a little bit about the chemistry behind them and have to go back to work the following day, so for indigenous people whose main distraction was trying to survive, it must have felt like straight-up magic and connection with the divine.
So, it's easy to imagine that many made it their life mission, possibly even as group efforts, to test everything they could put their hands on to find out if anything else had similar properties. And as ex-amine said, they could very well have found DMT-containing plants while already taking Caapi for other reasons.
If this idea is correct, it would made sense for this endeavor to have happened several times independently in different places at different times, explaining the different known combinations for ayahuasca.