Here, we explore the benefits and side-effects of ayahuasca, as well as what really happens at these retreats. Psychotria viridis, one of the two main ingredients of ayahuasca, contains the ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally ... Harmine was administered orally in capsule form as a single dose.

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 ...