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 ...

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 ...

Ayahuasca's mystical encounters often involve entities described as half-human and half-animal, such as beings with bird-like heads or centaur-like figures, half-human and half-horse, and many others ...