On Banisterine, an Intoxicating Substance from Banisteria Caapi
Berlin pharmacologist Louis Lewin announces his isolation of banisterine from Banisteria caapi and its identity to harmine. He describes animal experiments and preliminary human trials showing that banisterine relieved the muscular rigidity of encephalitis lethargica (post-influenza sleeping sickness).
1928
Academic Article
PharmacologyAyahuasca
Louis Lewin