some rue has very little harmaline..like barely significant ammounts. Actaully harmine is usually the dominant beta-carboline. Of course sometimes harmaline is the dominant..there is also more beta carbolines in rue than just harmine/harmaline..like harmalol..rue also contains THH which is something most people do not know. Usually the THH is in minor ammounts though..
Also, until you have really really potnet cappi you cant understand how sickening and horribly caapi can make you feel. Dose certain vines the way you dose the bulk of the stuff out there and you will be so fraken sick man and soo far out there you will take back your words on rue being harsher. I never beleived there was banisteriopsis caapi like this until I got some of it. I was sick for over 15 hours before with this stuff..puking and shitting and wishing to god for it to just end..trust me after that I was more and happy to just drink rue and mimosa for the next few weeks until I was ready to deal with that vine again.
This particular ayahuasca also seemed more demanding that any ammount of rue or caapi prior had been. I could not have caffine for days after I took that dose..no stimulants at all..certain foods I could not stomache..I puked even 2 days after drinking this vine. This was at 20g only. I doubt some of you will believe me but hey thats just life..I dont care to convince anyone. All I am doing is offering my experience here.
Of course there are some differences between rue and caapi..they are 2 different plants with a different ratios of harmalas from different parts of the world..still at least for me one has not been any better than the other..I work with both of them often and I would rather have it that way and have to sit back and pit the 2 plants against each other. It seems like such a linear and overly rational waste of time. They are both beautiful teacher plants and I dont think they jive too well with this sort of one vs the other thing..
Some groups who origionally started with ayahuasca actually now prefer to use rue..the Fatimiya Sufi Order is one group who started the path with ayahuasca, and claim that the ayahuasca told them straight up that they were to start using rue becasue it was the origional haoma of persia..Now they work with rue and various acacia species..and they also like to add hawaiian chacruna and sometimes they do add some vine as admixture. I think one member of that group was at some point a member here..they have their own subforum on the ayahuasca forums also but you have to be a member I think to view it.
Here is an interview with the head shaikh I think..
Another group, Friends of the Forest branched off from the Daime and they also now prefer to work with rue and mimosa..
I think instead of sitting back and pitting one plant agasint another(especially when you have zero experience with that plant) we should maybe be thankful that these alkaloids even exist in such a wide variety of plants around the globe so that people all over can experience the amazing healing potential that ALL of them contain. There is just way to much left brain linear rationalism in this discussion.