单词 | yagé |
释义 | yagén. 1. A South American liana of the genus Banisteriopsis used by the Indians to make a hallucinogenic infusion. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding intoxicating drink > [noun] > other plants yielding intoxicating drinks maqui1703 kava1866 yagé1924 1924 C. W. Domville-Fife Among Wild Tribes of Amazons xvi. 229 A curious potion is made from a plant called yagé. 1931 Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 21 487 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. 1945 F. R. Fosberg in F. Verdoorn et al. 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. 2. The drink made from this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > for specific purpose poisonc1400 cooler1829 yagé1953 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie xv. 149 Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. 1960 Spectator 29 July 176 Yage, a vine-bark stew..supposedly invests the user with telepathic powers. 1969 Science 17 Jan. 253/2 The Siona of today frequently mix Datura leaves with Banisteriopsis in preparing yajé. 1975 High Times Dec. 80/1 You trek 900 miles overland into the Amazon jungle to sample yagé in its natural habitat. 1977 W. H. Lewis & M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis Med. Bot. xviii. 413/1 No more interesting or complex narcotic drink can be found than ayahuasca, caapi, or yaje. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1924 |
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