Black Drink

Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant

Black Drink

Ilex vomitoria

Black Drink is Ilex yopo — wait, no, Ilex vomitoria, the only caffeine-bearing plant native to North America, distributed across the US southeast. Used ceremonially by Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chitimacha and many other tribes for purification before council, war, or ball games. Sometimes brewed to induce vomiting, sometimes drunk weak as a stimulant.

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See also

Yerba mate, Yopo

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Summary

Classes

Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant

Common uses

Ceremonial purge▲0▼

Pharmacy

Preparations

Toasted leaves and twigs decocted to a near-black concentrate

Pharmacology

Routes

Oral

Purported mechanism

Caffeine (highest of the Ilex genus) plus saponins that produce ritual vomiting at high doses.