What makes ayahuasca fascinating is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it. It's made really of two different sources: on the one hand, this woody liana which has in it a series of beta-carbolines, harmine, harmaline, mildly hallucinogenic -- to take the vine alone is rather to have sort of blue hazy smoke drift across your consciousness -- but it's mixed with the leaves of a shrub in the coffee family called Psychotria viridis.
Ajavaska ir neparasta ne tikai sava farmakoloģiskā potenciāla, bet arī iegūšanas dēļ. Tās sastāvdaļas iegūst  no diviem dažādiem avotiem. Viena ir šī kokainā liāna, kurā ir virkne bēta karbolīnu — harmīns, harmalīns,  tie ir viegli halucinogēni. Lietot vīteņaugu vienu pašu ir kā ļaut zilganai dūmakai pārslīdēt pāri apziņai. Taču to sajauc  ar Rubiju dzimtas krūma — <i>Psychotria viridis</i> — lapām.