A study examining the effects of harmine, a major component of ayahuasca, found that it produces no significant psychoactive ...

Banisteriopsis caapi wood, psychotria leaves and ayahuasca brew in wooden bowl. Walter Lopez, a traditional indigenous healer from Peru’s Shipibo tribe, remembers his first experience with the ...

peyote and banisteriopsis caapi) spaced out over the last decade. Circumstances of ingestion varied from solitary trial to controlled academic setting at Stanford U. and Harvard to watchful ...

Ayahuasca is brewed from the macerated and boiled vines of the Banisteriopsis caapi (yage) plant and the Psychotria viridis (chacruna) leaf, and it has been used for centuries as a traditional ...