Police raid ‘psychedelic retreat’ where guests were given toad venom and ayahuasca - Police said they began investigating the ...

Ayahuasca, a powerful psychoactive brew originating from the Amazon rainforest, has captivated the attention of scientists, ...

Officers seized 11 liters of ayahuasca, 117 San Pedro cactus plants and several bottles of frog venom known as Kambo.

Exclusive: The biweekly use of ayahuasca by Juliana Reis, a member of Christian reincarnationist sect União do Vegetal, is ...

Ayahuasca, also known as yage, is a blend of the ayahuasca vine and the chacruna shrub containing dimethyltryptamine or DMT: a hallucinogen. It is created by macerating and boiling the components.

The Emmy-nominated 'Paradise' star hasn't crafted a public 'persona,' says longtime collaborator Dan Fogelman: With SKB, what ...

“Ayahuasca is penetrating American society, and its highly successful people, way more than any other psychedelic,” says Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association ...

Gaddy and Jhoselyn describe ayahuasca as a plant medicine, made when two ingredients (Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the hallucinogenic plant Psychotria viridis) are combined to form a tea, often ...

Last year, a study of DMT, ayahuasca’s vision-inducing component, showed that the compound actually alters brain waves, inducing a state that researchers described as “dreaming while awake.” ...

Ayahuasca represents itself in different ways to me, sometimes as an anaconda or a series of continually moving tentacles, opaque and luminous, moving the air around.

Curious about ayahuasca? With a name that literally means "the vine of death,” this Amazonian brew is not a simple recreational psychedelic trip, so be warned about that reality from the start ...