>Some trips have felt like mystical, blissful experiences. Others have felt like an eternity in hell. You never know what you're going to get and you have to be ready for it.
I wonder if the variability in experience isn't partially because it is a plant concoction allowing some substitutes:
> Ayahuasca[1] is commonly made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, the Psychotria viridis shrub or a substitute, and other ingredients including Justicia pectoralis,[5] one of the Brugmansia (especially Brugmansia insignis and Brugmansia versicolor, or a hybrid breed) or Datura species,[6] and mapacho (Nicotiana rustica).
It seems to me that it would be hard to get a repeatable dosage and combination of the active ingredients this way.
"It seems to me that it would be hard to get a repeatable dosage and combination of the active ingredients this way."
Not only that, different ayahuasca "shamen" tend to have different recipes for making it. There are no standardized dosages and no quality control beyond what the individual brewing it chooses (or not) to do.
I wonder if the variability in experience isn't partially because it is a plant concoction allowing some substitutes:
> Ayahuasca[1] is commonly made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, the Psychotria viridis shrub or a substitute, and other ingredients including Justicia pectoralis,[5] one of the Brugmansia (especially Brugmansia insignis and Brugmansia versicolor, or a hybrid breed) or Datura species,[6] and mapacho (Nicotiana rustica).
It seems to me that it would be hard to get a repeatable dosage and combination of the active ingredients this way.