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

peyote and banisteriopsis caapi) spaced out over the last decade. Circumstances of ingestion varied from solitary trial to controlled academic setting at Stanford U. and Harvard to watchful ...

Banisteriopsis caapi wood, 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 ...

Ayahuasca is brewed from the macerated and boiled vines of the Banisteriopsis caapi (yage) plant and the Psychotria viridis (chacruna) leaf, and it has been used for centuries as a traditional ...