Are challenging ayahuasca experiences always harmful? Not necessarily, finds a new global survey. While some effects predict ...

B. caapi contains many drugs, including harmine, tetrahydroharmine and harmaline, which can act as MAOIs. When B. caapi is combined with another DMT-containing plant like Psychotria viridis, the ...

Ayahuasca is a brew with powerful hallucinogenic properties claimed to open your mind and heal past trauma. This article reviews Ayahuasca, including its negative and positive effects on health.

A new study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs suggests that while awe can be transformative during ayahuasca ...

Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic tea made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, plus stalks of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine. Psychotria viridis contains N-dimethyltryptamine, otherwise ...

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.

Ayahuasca is a brew made by heating or boiling the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub with the stalks of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, although other plants can be added as well, ...

Peyote’s main ingredient is mescaline. Ayahuasca is a combination of two plants, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, commonly known as DMT.

For example, Banisteriopsis caapi is native to the Amazonian rainforest region, so it must have been transported west to the South American coast. Coca leaves, too, ...

In South America, jaguars eat caapi roots, also known as ayahuasca, to hallucinate. These wild cats find the roots, chew on them, and enter an altered state. It’s a sight to behold. Jaguars and ...

"In the case of San Pedro, it's not well preserved in an archaeological context, and in the case of the coca leaves and Banisteriopsis caapi, they were never found to be growing in this region ...