EPENA
Chapter: Entheogens
AKA: Akurjua, ebene, hakudufha, nyakwana, parica, Virola calophylla, Virola calophylloidea, Virola carinata, Virola cuspidata, Virola divergens, Virola elongata, Virola loretensis, Virola melinonii, Virola multinervia, Virola pavonis, Virola peruviana, Virola rufula, Virola sebifera, Virola surinamensis, Virola theiodora, Virola venosa, yakee, yato, yopo.
A tree found in the rain forests of Colombia and Brazil, it is a member of the nutmeg family.
Effects: The hallucinogenic effects take hold almost immediately and lasts about thirty minutes. The chief psychoactive ingredients are DMT and 5-MeO-DMT.
Precautions: Indigenous peoples of Colombia and Brazil usually mix it with water and take it as an enema to avoid the side effects associated with snorting.
Side effects include uncontrollable trembling for five minutes, followed by headaches and confusion for another ten minutes. It can also cause numbness of the limbs, facial twitching, loss of muscular control, nausea, and irritation of the mucus membranes, resulting in uncontrollable sneezing. Epena can exaggerate any existing pain, and taking it on a full stomach can cause nausea.
If combined with any other MAO inhibitors, headaches, vomiting, heart problems, and death may result.
Dosage: Though preparation varies from one area to another, generally the thick red resin is scraped from the inner bark, dried or boiled down to an amber-red crystalline state, then ground and sifted. The resultant snuff is then blown into the nostrils with a tube. Other regional plants may also be added to vary the effect. Some people eat the resin in the form of pellets, and there are reports that it is even smoked.
Questions and Answers
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Virola, also known as EpenГЎ, is a genus of medium-sized trees native to the South American rainforest and closely related to other Myristicaceae, such as nutmeg. It has glossy, dark leaves with clusters of tiny yellow flowers and emits a pungent odor.
The dark-red resin of the tree bark contains several hallucinogenic alkaloids, most notably 5-MeO-DMT, perhaps the most "powerful" member of the Dimethyltryptamine family; it also contains beta-carboline harmala alkaloids, MAOIs that greatly potentiate the effects of DMT. The bark resin is prepared and dried by a variety of methods, often including the addition of ash or lime, presumably as basifying agents, and a powder made from the leaves of the small Justicia bush. Ingestion is similar to that of Yopo, consisting of assisted insufflation, with the snuff being blown through a long tube into the nostrils by an assistant. According to Schultes, the use of Virola in magico-religious rituals is restricted to tribes in the Western Amazon Basin and parts of the Orinoco Basin.
