| 释义 |
‖ yagé|ˈjɑːʒeɪ, jaˈxe|
Also yage, yajé.
[Amer. Sp.]
a. A South American liana of the genus Banisteriopsis used by the Indians to make a hallucinogenic infusion.
b. The drink made from this.
1924C. W. Domville-Fife Among Wild Tribes of Amazons xvi. 229 A curious potion is made from a plant called yagé. 1931Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. XXI. 487 One of the most interesting plants found in the region of the upper courses of the Putumayo and Caquetá Rivers [in Colombia] is the yagé. The Indians make a beverage from either the wild or cultivated yagé, boiling it in a large earthenware vessel an entire day... They add to the yagé the leaves and the young shoots of the oco yagé or chagro panga.., and it is the addition of this plant which produces the ‘bluish aureole’ of their visions. 1945F. R. Fosberg in F. Verdoorn Plants & Plant Sci. Lat. Amer. 28/1 Two other plants..are used by the Amazonian Indians for their narcotic effect. Maikoa (Brugmansia arborea) and yagé or caapi (Banisteriopsis caapi) both produce hallucinations. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie xv. 149 Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. 1960Spectator 29 July 176 Yage, a vine-bark stew..supposedly invests the user with telepathic powers. 1969Science 17 Jan. 253/2 The Siona of today frequently mix Datura leaves with Banisteriopsis in preparing yajé. 1975High Times Dec. 80/1 You trek 900 miles overland into the Amazon jungle to sample yagé in its natural habitat. 1977Lewis & Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. xviii. 413/1 No more interesting or complex narcotic drink can be found than ayahuasca, caapi, or yaje. |