Another historic milestone is the discovery of DMT in plants usually employed by Amazonian natives as additive to the vine Banisteriopsis caapi to generate ayahuasca decoctions. In 1957, American chemists Francis Hochstein and Anita Paradies determined DMT within an "aqueous extract" of leaves of the plant they named Prestonia amazonicum https://elizabethz062zsm1.wikicommunications.com/user