Learn about ayahuasca, a plant-based psychedelic used for spiritual and healing purposes. Discover its effects, traditional uses, and the potential risks involved.

Chris Kilham with leaf cuttings from the Chacruna plant, also known as Psychotria viridis. It is one of the ingredients traditionally used to brew ayahuasca. Zoe Helene ...

Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch The ritual container, made of three fox snouts, contains the earliest known evidence of ayahuasca preparation.

What is ayahuasca? Ayahuasca is a muddy-brown herbal tea created by combining Banisteriopsis caapi vine bark and chacruna leaves imported from the Amazon basin.

Ayahuasca brew is made from boiling the vines of the Ayahuasca plant with the leaves of the chacruna plant. It can be brewed in anything from a cauldron to a slow cooker, although the ingredients ...

Ayahuasca is a muddy-brown herbal tea created by combining Banisteriopsis caapi vine bark and chacruna leaves imported from the Amazon basin. If ingested separately, they have no psychoactive ...

One woman went on a three-day, all-women Ayahuasca Retreat expecting transformation. Here's what happened instead.

Ayahuasca could become an accepted treatment for depression and PTSD in the US within the next decade, according to a Canadian company that has developed a medicinal version of the plant.

Ayahuasca is a psychedelic made by boiling the caapi vine and the leaves of the chacruna shrub, both found in South America. The active chemical is DMT, or dimethyltryptamine.

The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, an organization that researches psychedelics, said in a publication that exact numbers are difficult to obtain since most cases never come ...