Editing Banisteriopsis caapi (section)

==History==
The first mentions of caapi come from early Spanish and Portuguese explorers and missionaries who visited South America in the 16th century, describing ayahuasca brews as "diabolic" and dangerous decoctions.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.ayahuasca.com/amazon/when-and-how-was-ayahuasca-discovered-by-the-world-outside-the-amazon/| title=When and how was Ayahuasca discovered by the world outside the Amazon?| date=4 May 2008| access-date=28 October 2018| archive-date=22 October 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022095827/http://www.ayahuasca.com/amazon/when-and-how-was-ayahuasca-discovered-by-the-world-outside-the-amazon/| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although utilised among the indigenous tribes of South America for hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years, caapi was not identified by westerners until 1851, when [[Richard Spruce]], an English botanist, described it as a new species. He observed how [[Guahibo people|Guahibo]]s,
the indigenous people of Llanos (Venezuela), chewed the bark of caapi instead of brewing it as a drink.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schultes|first=Richard Evans|date=1977|title=Hallucinogenic Plants|publisher=Golden Press |url=https://archive.org/details/hallucinogenicpl00schu_0|isbn=0-307-24362-1|url-access=registration}}</ref>