‘Traditional healers called Taitas from the yagé culture have tried to maintain their indigenous medical practices.’
‘Under the influence of yagé Rick has the unsettling habit of pretending to be an orang-utan.’
‘Although he only took yagé a few times, it is possible to argue that the yagé visions had a much deeper effect on his fiction than his use of heroin.’
‘For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry.’
‘Harmaline and other harmala alkaloids, principle psychoactive substances in the "magical" beverage yagé, appear throughout the plant world.’
Origin
1920s from American Spanish.
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