trippy, huh

:P

"Studying Ayahuasca, modern minds have puzzled the origins of the discovery of the Great Medicine, since it is commonly said that being a synergistic potion, there is no effect when only one of the plants are consumed."

Yes, it is commonly said, but Vine alone DOES have an effect, and the Vine guides to other Plants. The Indians consult the Vine to discover and learn many different Plant medicines, not only the Leaf.

What is strange is that modern minds should find Plant communication to be so incomprehensible, and that modern minds should so casually discard what the Amazonians (Indians and mestizos alike) say, that the Plant spirits guided the discovery of the Great Medicine and continue to guide its discovery.

Actually it is very simple... Ask any Shaman... The Plants Told them, Themselves...

That plants talk is not just a metaphor or an abstract explanation for a divine mode of communication, but a simple fact of observation. Sometimes an ayahuasca vine takes over a whole tree - now who would doubt that a little vine which can colonise a whole big tree is a powerful one? Have you looked at its flowers? Its shapes and twists and turns - its signature is one of power..

According to my maestro, don Juan, extraterrestrial beings from the White Brotherhood brought ayahuasca to this planet and gave it to the people of Peru so that they might evolve their consciousnesses more quickly. Ayahuasca told the people of the Amazon to find chacruna and to mix the two together to produce brighter visions. It is false to say, however, that there is no effect when only one of the plants is consumed, as to this day, several tribes only use ayahuasca to connect with the spiritual dimensions. In the book, "One River" by Wade Davis, an experience by the grandfather of ethnobotany, Richard Evans Shultes, is given where he attends a ceremony and takes an ayahuasca brew that contained only ayahuasca. He admits that to his surprise, his visions were the brightest and most powerful he had ever experienced, and he had attended many ceremonies prior to that.
It is incorrect to suggest that the ayahuasca brew is merely an orally potentiated DMT experience, for there is ample evidence to show that ayahuasca alone has amazing properties which science still has yet to understand fully. Anti-depressant medications also use MAO inhibitors like the ones isolated in the ayahuasca vine (harmine, harmaline, and tetra-harmaline) so there is already evidence that the vine alone has effects. Many curanderos would say that the DMT containing plants make the visions brighter, but that the ayahuasca is the root, which is why the brew is called ayahuasca, and not named after the DMT containing plants.