LOPHOPHORA PLANTS FOR DUMMIES

An additional historic milestone is the discovery of DMT in plants routinely employed by Amazonian natives as additive towards the vine Banisteriopsis caapi to make ayahuasca decoctions. In 1957, American chemists Francis Hochstein and Anita Paradies recognized DMT in an "aqueous extract" of leaves of a plant they named Prestonia amazonicum [sic] a