Medicinal wines

Harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine — the three alkaloids inside Banisteriopsis caapi — have been shown to stimulate neural stem cell proliferation in the hippocampus. A vine that Amazonian healers have called the vine of the soul for thousands of years contains compounds that appear to grow new neurons.

There is a plant that holds the energy of ancient Egypt in its petals, a flower so deeply revered that it was painted onto the walls of tombs, woven into the hair of pharaohs, and steeped in wine for the most sacred (and sensual) of ceremonies. That plant is Nymphaea caerulea, the Blue Lotus. I