Ayahuasca is made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub as well as the Banisteriopsis caapi vine stalks. Other plant extracts can also be added to the tea. Ayahuasca was discovered in ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally used in spiritual and healing practices by Indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

is a blend of two plants - the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and a shrub called chacruna (Psychotria viridis), which contains the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT). DMT - and ...

mashed and boiled from the components of two plants – the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the leaves of the Chacruna (Psychotria viridis). The plants are boiled in the same bowl and ...

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 plant medicine, aged just 14 ...

Also known as yage, it is a blend of two plants - the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and a shrub called chacruna (Psychotria viridis), which contains the hallucinogenic drug ...

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