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1928 – The Banisterine Experiments of Pharmacologist Louis Lewin


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Abstract

Louis Lewin, a German pharmacologist who devoted his career to exploring the pharmacological effects of psychoactive plants and drugs, explored the properties of the ayahuasca vine Banisteriopsis caapi, from which he extracted an alkaloid that he called “banisterine”. Following experiments on animals and humans, he noted that banisterine produced an initial stimulation of the nervous […]