Pronounced as "EYE-a-wasca," the ayahuasca vine is a tropical climbing vine best known for its psychoactive properties and use in Peruvian shamanic rituals. Sometimes called "the vine of the dead ...

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 ...

What are you gonna say?" Ayahuasca is a muddy-brown herbal tea created by combining Banisteriopsis caapi vine bark and chacruna leaves imported from the Amazon basin. If ingested separately ...

A man on a three-day ayahuasca healing retreat in Boynton Beach stabbed his healer five times with a chefs knife, police said. What is ayahuasca?