When and how was Ayahuasca discovered by the world outside the Amazon?
By admin • May 4th, 2008 • Category: OverviewsThe earliest Europeans to mention Ayahuasca were Jesuits travelling in the Amazon. One of the earliest such reports of this “diabolical potion,” written in 1737, describes it as: “an intoxicating potion ingested for divinatory and other purposes and called ayahuasca, which deprives one of his senses and, at times, of his life.”
