Black Drink
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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.
Yerba mate, Yopo
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Summary
Classes
Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant
Common uses
Ceremonial purge0
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.