psychotria leaves and ayahuasca brew in wooden bowl. Walter Lopez, a traditional indigenous healer from Peru’s Shipibo tribe, remembers his first experience with the plant medicine, aged just 14 ...

As per Healthline, Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew consisting of leaves from Psychotria viridis and stalks from Banisteriopsis caapi. When these plants are combined, it enables the active ...

The body breaks it down in such a way that it leaves users high for hours ... centers in Peru spread word of the plant's magic. This gave birth to ayahuasca tourism, in which people such as ...