Ayahuasca and traditional healing in Latin America | Page 3

Ayahuasca Plants, Ingredients, and Compounds
Ayahuasca is a traditional plant medicine and brew from the Amazonian region and commonly made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of th [ ... ]

Legal Issues around Ayahuasca Explained
The Ayahuasca brew contains the psychoactive ingredient Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is a controlled substance in many countries — a hard dru [ ... ]

6 Useful Tips Before an Ayahuasca Retreat
What to expect during an Ayahuasca ceremony? Ayahuasca is an ancient plant medicine that has been used for centuries to facilitate healing and spiritu [ ... ]

Rapé Snuff | Ritually Blowing or Inhaling Tobacco through the Nose
Traditional Rapé snuff is a preparation made from either the leaves of the common tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) or from Mapacho tobacco (Nicotian [ ... ]

What Is an Ayahuasca Icaro? | Function and Benefits Explained
An Icaro (also written Ikaro) is a South American, Amazonian indigenous word for a magic medicine song, chant, or prayer. The term Icaro is typically [ ... ]

Ayahuasca and the Benefits of Purging | La Purga
Purging is an important part of Ayahuasca ceremonies, which — at the moment it happens — is experienced as an unpleasant phenomenon, but a [ ... ]

Ayahuasca and the Dietary Regime | La Dieta
Most of the times, a dietary regime is one of the type of preparations you’ll encounter in relation to Ayahuasca retreats. This dietary regime is us [ ... ]

Setting Your Intentions for an Ayahuasca Ceremony
Setting intentions before taking Ayahuasca during an Ayahuasca retreat or ceremony is a recurring theme, a task that many retreat facilitators, Shaman [ ... ]

What Are the Health Benefits of the Ayahuasca Brew?
Drinking the Ayahuasca brew is said to have many (potential) health benefits on the physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual level. Nonetheless, [ ... ]

Ayahuasca | Contraindications and Risks of Use
Taking Ayahuasca is thought to have a range of physical, psychological, and spiritual health benefits, but there are quite a series of risks involved [ ... ]