Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew made from plants and has been used for centuries in traditional shamanic rituals by ...

It’s those very rituals surrounding the use of ayahuasca that might explain health benefits observed in religious groups who imbibe, such as the potential to treat psychiatric disorders, like ...

A man on a three-day ayahuasca healing retreat in Boynton Beach stabbed his healer five times with a chefs knife, police said. What is ayahuasca?

From Amazonian Ayahuasca rituals to ancient use of psilocybin 'magic mushrooms', these substances have played significant roles in various cultures.

While traditionally used in religious and healing rituals by indigenous Amazonian cultures, ayahuasca is now attracting interest from tech entrepreneurs seeking alternative approaches to elevated ...

Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

It contained “la medicina,” a syrupy brown decoction of chacruna leaves and ayahuasca vines boiled down for two days and then decanted into old water bottles. At the start of the ceremony ...

Ayahuasca (ai-uh-wa-skuh), also known as yage ... Traditional ceremonies take place at night, with the effects lasting some hours. The ritual begins after a shaman prepares and blesses the brew. They ...

Alamy Taking ayahuasca is illegal in the UK A statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Mr Miller had attended a tribal ritual 48 hours prior to his death and had drunk the substance ...

Ayahuasca use has grown in popularity after ... several hundred years and is associated with religious practices and rituals. "The onset of DMT effects is very rapid but usually resolves within ...