Taber's Medical Dictionary
Banisteriopsis caapi
A tropical vine indigenous to South America whose bark, rich in harmaline alkaloids and other hallucinogens, is boiled alone or with other plants to make hallucinogenic teas, such as ayahuasca and yage.
SEE: ayahuasca; SEE: yage
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Banisteriopsis Caapi." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760607/all/Banisteriopsis_caapi.
Banisteriopsis caapi. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760607/all/Banisteriopsis_caapi. Accessed April 17, 2025.
Banisteriopsis caapi. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760607/all/Banisteriopsis_caapi
Banisteriopsis Caapi [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 17]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/760607/all/Banisteriopsis_caapi.
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