At this point, you’ve probably heard or seen something about the hallucinogenic tea known as ayahuasca. Maybe your more adventurous friends have gone on an ayahuasca retreat in Peru, or you saw a ...

Researchers have found evidence that hallucinogenic plants were used on children as part of sacrificial rituals in Peru hundreds of years ago. Ritual ceremonies played an important role in the Inca ...

Harmala alkaloids present in the Banisteriopsis caapi vine act as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), which prevent the breakdown of Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) found in the Psychotria Viridis leaf.

The study brings together the results of a four-year "in vitro" and "in vivo" experimentation in mice. Ayahuasca is obtained from a mixture between two Amazonian plants, the ayahuasca vine ...

You may have heard about an Amazonian brew called ayahuasca, a psychedelic traditional plant medicine that has been imbued with spiritual and psychological healing properties. Although ayahuasca is ...

Given the recent Western uptick in ayahuasca use, a new study from the University of Melbourne took a closer look with data from an online Global Ayahuasca Survey, carried out between 2017 and 2019, ...

People under the influence of a psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca frequently experience vivid visual and aural hallucinations and also report feeling as if they are in a dream. Now a new study ...

The growing popularity and increased commercialization of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew, may be harming the Amazon forest where its two key ingredients grow. In the Brazilian state of Acre, ...

You may have heard about an Amazonian brew called ayahuasca, a psychedelic traditional plant medicine that has been imbued with spiritual and psychological healing properties. Although ayahuasca is ...