A puke bucket and an ancient drug: is ayahuasca the future of PTSD treatment?
I visited Peru to find out more about an intriguing ayahuasca study – and to have my own experience with the psychedelic brew…
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In Brazil, Some Inmates Get Therapy With Hallucinogenic Tea
JI-PARANÁ, Brazil — As the night sky enveloped this outpost in Brazil’s Amazon basin, the ceremony at the open-air temple began simply enough.
What Ayahuasca Taught Me About Taking Care of My Health
Right now, I am undergoing what ayahuasca users call “integration.” Following a ceremony, there’s an indefinite period, maybe days or weeks, when the plant’s lessons continue to seep in.
How some doctors are risking everything to unleash the healing power of MDMA, ayahuasca and other hallucinogens
Dr. X is a dad. Appropriately – boringly – at 4:37 p.m. on a national holiday, he is lighting a charcoal grill, about to grab a pair of tongs with one hand and a beer with the other.
Plant Hallucinogen Holds Hope for Diabetes Treatment
For centuries, some indigenous groups in South America have relied on a brew made from the parts of a local vine and a shrub. Credit: Lisa Johnson Getty Images
I had an 11-year addiction to heroin — and I beat it with ayahuasca
I started taking the Amazonian psychedelic ayahuasca two years ago because I had an 11-year addiction to heroin I couldn’t shake. Photo: Darryl Dyck, Associated Press
Psychedelic ayahuasca works against severe depression, study finds
“Leon” is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some 300 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Which U.S. state will be the first to legalize shrooms?
It was nice to read that Jersey City has become the first city in the state to decriminalize marijuana.
Psychedelic Medicine 101: Psilocybin and the magic of mushrooms
For decades certain drugs, intially used solely by doctors and researchers, have been ostracized from the world of legitimate science.
Inside the push to legalize magic mushrooms for depression and PTSD
WHEN TODD’S PSYCHIATRIST suggested he start taking psychedelics, he figured it was a joke.