Pronounced as "EYE-a-wasca," the ayahuasca vine is a tropical climbing vine best known for its psychoactive properties and use in Peruvian shamanic rituals. Sometimes called "the vine of the dead ...

is a blend of two plants - the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and a shrub called chacruna (Psychotria viridis), which contains the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT). DMT - and ...

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 ...

According to Healthline, “Ayahuasca, also known as the tea, the vine, and la purga, is a brew made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub along with the stalks of the Banisteriopsis ...

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?

Also known as yage, it is a blend of two plants - the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and a shrub called chacruna (Psychotria viridis), which contains the hallucinogenic drug ...

What are you gonna say?" Ayahuasca is a muddy-brown herbal tea created by combining Banisteriopsis caapi vine bark and chacruna leaves imported from the Amazon basin. If ingested separately ...

A plant-based medicinal tea, Ayahuasca is known for its psychoactive qualities. A rather interesting brew, Ayahuasca is known to makes people travel back in time, and view their experiences and ...

The Conversationfor AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Pardis Mahdavi, University of La Verne (THE CONVERSATION) Ayahuasca, a sacred drinkmade from the stem and ...