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 ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive liquid prepared from two Amazonian plants: the Banisteriopsis Cappi vine and the leaf of Psychotria Viridis. The preparation of the vine itself is a meticulous process.

the ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi), and the chacruna leaf (Psychotria viridis), which contains the powerful ...

It contained “la medicina,” a syrupy brown decoction of chacruna leaves and ayahuasca vines boiled down for two days and then decanted into old water bottles. At the start of the ceremony ...