How Ayahuasca Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

One day in the Amazon Basin, a shaman put together a plant containing DMT with a vine that allows the body to absorb DMT. The combination, a foul-tasting, wildly hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca, has changed cultures throughout the Americas.

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0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuffworks.com.
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0:43.4	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.6	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan.
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0:48.4	This is Stuff You Should Know, The Poor Tempts at Spanish Edition.
0:56.0	And yet another drug cast.
1:00.4	Covering all the drugs, everybody.
1:02.6	One by one.
1:04.0	And this one is Ayahuasca.
1:07.1	We'll have to do one just specifically on DMT sometime, too.
1:12.4	Alright.
1:13.4	Because it's the DMT is the base of Ayahuasca, but it's different.
1:17.6	I mean, there's other stuff going on with Ayahuasca that DMT doesn't have them.
1:21.9	Spoiler alert.
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