Ourinho (Banisteriopsis Caapi) Ayahuasca Vine – Roughly Shredded Vine from Brazil

Banisteriopsis Caapi – Brazilian Ourinho Vine

Shredded “Ourinho” Ayahuasca vine from Brazil. The name means golden, and it was the favourite, and the only one he used, of Raimundo Irineu Serra, the founder of the Santo Daime doctrine. This particular specimen comes from a Santo Daime community and is about 20 years old, and as such is very mature. Besides drying no further treatment has taken place.

Banisteriopsis Caapi

Banisteriopsis caapi is one of a thousands of species of plants in tropical South America. They use three of these in combination with other plants to prepare Ayahuasca.  These three plants are B. inebriens, B. caapi and B. quitensis. The best known of these three species and the main component of Ayahuasca is Banisteriopsis caapi. There are many sub species in the B. caapi family of plants depending on the region where the vines grows.

Banisteriopsis caapi only contains harmaline which acts as a reversible MAO inhibitor it is not hallucinogenic by itself. Since harmaline is a reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor, it could increase the effect of some drugs problematically.

The geographical origin is not known because the plant is cultivated throughout the entire Amazonian region. The plant grows in the wild in Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Equador, Colombia and the other countries of the Amazon basin. Many of the local tribes have used it in their religious traditions through the millennia.

in tropical forests it grows as a shrub or as an extensive liana. The bark is usually chocolate-brown and smooth. It has opposite oval-shaped green leaves. They are between 8 to 18 cm long and 3.5 to 8 cm wide with an glabrous upper surface. It has inflorescence axillary or terminal cymose panicles. The flowers are 12 to 14 mm in diameter, 2.5 to 3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide with pink  petals. The petals are 5 to 7 mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide. This liana propagates both vegetatively and from seed. The fan-like shaped seeds are green when fresh, but turn brown with age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banisteriopsis_caapi

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