Ayahuasca (Kîcua: death liana or dreams or spirits), also known among Napo Indians: jayahuasca, chayahuasca (bitter liana), is a plant used by Indians of some tribes living in territories irrigated by the left tributaries of the upper Amazon (Eastern Equine) from Colombia and South of Venezuela) to give themselves a drunkenness, either restless or comatous, during which they have dreams, apparitions, etc., where they foresee the future, discover their enemy, etc.