Ayahuasca (ai-uh-wa-skuh), also known as yage, is a hallucinogenic plant-based brew used as medicine in regions of the Amazon ...

Sometimes called "the vine of the dead," this thick-rooted plant grows long leaves and small flowers. The ayahuasca receives its psychoactive properties from the chemical harmaline, a compound ...

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 ...

Even ayahuasca vines are harder to find—Mayantuyacu now ... not the world of jaguar spirits but the secret kingdom of the plants. I felt I suddenly understood what it’s like to worm through ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew ... It is often made by combining the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis plant. The mixture contains powerful compounds: N,N ...

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?