Mounting evidence supports ayahuasca's potential to improve mental health, but its long-term effects are shaped by both ...

Prior mental health conditions, as well as the environment in which ayahuasca is taken and the people around participants can ...

COLUMN. On Easter, chocolate brings together many enthusiasts. However, cocoa can also be perceived as a sacred plant, as ...

Consider it ayahuasca lite. “It’s not like any drug I’ve ever taken,” said Kat Ho, who started leading cacao ceremonies in 2021 after being introduced to the drink during the pandemic by a ...

Aaron Rodgers says he's experienced a "deeper love" of himself while using ayahuasca, a psychedelic ... revealed he participated in a three-night ceremony earlier this year that saw him drink ...

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 ...

When it came to the actual ceremony and drinking the ayahuasca, Fox said the experience went on for three nights and was "incredibly intense." "Everybody's journey is different, but on the second ...

Becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and Ecuador, too, are traditional sweat lodge ceremonies that include a psychedelic component, usually psilocybin and ayahuasca. (As of now, there are no ...

In a previous review of adverse effects reported in a global survey of ayahuasca ceremony participants, José Carlos Bouso, Andión, and colleagues found that over half reported adverse mental ...