ayahuasca can cause potentially life-threatening side effects such as agitation, hallucinations, rhabdomyolysis, seizures, and vomiting. Nearly 70% of people in the PLOS study reported acute ...

(Ayahuasca causes intense vomiting — or as fans of the plant prefer to call it, "purging.") Participants take their places on mats and wait for the shaman, whom Costuros has worked with for ...

As the ayahuasca takes effect people retch and many vomit into their buckets. When first timers drink large amounts there’s often screaming and wailing too. He blows into the bottle containing ...

An Ayahuasca trip can be both good and bad. Besides an exhilarating experience, a trip can also result in severe diarrhoea, vomiting as well as paranoia and even a panic attack. These will go as ...

We waited on mats with blankets and plastic vomit buckets under the thatched ... “You don’t take ayahuasca,” he said. “It takes you.” I tipped the cup and drank. A precision bite to ...

takes herself off to Peru to an ayahuasca retreat. There, she samples the brew, at first questioning its effect. Before long, she starts vomiting and wanders off into the woods, where she starts ...