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 ...

The ayahuasca receives its psychoactive properties ... Other species of rubber are cooked with red achiote seeds to make a durable latex paint for adorning the body. The golfball-sized seeds ...

Consider it ayahuasca lite. “It’s not like any drug ... a multistep process that traditionally begins with fermenting the seeds of the cacao fruit in their own pulp, drying them in the sun ...