Assessment of environmental condition and drying process of the plants on the concentration of alkaloids and cytotoxicity of traditional Ayahuasca Tea
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews May 21, 2021 Miranda Ordilena Ferreira De, Almeida Marcílio De, Sousa Ilza Maria de Oliveira et al. 1 citation
The concentration of psychoactive alkaloids in ayahuasca tea—N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), harmaline, harmine, and tetrahydroharmine—varies with the environment where the plants are grown and with how the plants are dried before brewing. Drying Psychotria viridis leaves at 43°C and Banisteriopsis caapi stems at 45°C in a forced-circulation oven best preserved alkaloid content. Neither fresh nor dried plant preparations showed cytotoxic effects on human keratinocyte cells in vitro.