A plant genus of the family MALPIGHIACEAE which includes an Amazonian psychoactive plant that contains the beta-carboline harmine and N,N-dimethyltryptamine.
    

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Singing to the plants : a guide to mestizo shamanism in the upper Amazon / Stephan V. Beyer.

A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy : ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States / Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill.

The yage letters / by William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg.

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Banisteriopsis

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Singing to the plants : a guide to mestizo shamanism in the upper Amazon / Stephan V. Beyer.

A hallucinogenic tea, laced with controversy : ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States / Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill.

The yage letters / by William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg.