Ayahuasca News

NSW's nursing and midwife union has taken the controversial step of supporting medicinal cannabis use.

A new report recommends taking drug classifying power away from the agency and giving it to a science or health based government division.

Often, the only difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose.

"A lot of what it comes down to is drinking ayahuasca in Peru." There is a whole routine on this shamanistic healing experience in Numb, where he probes why sex, drugs, food, drink and religion are used to squash feelings rather than deal with them. 

"YOU WAKE UP... AND IT JUST GETS DARKER" This is Simon Amstell's stand up show 'NUMB', recorded live at the BBC. Following an international tour, including a...

Empleada desde siempre por los chamanes para acceder a un estado de conocimiento profundo y primigenio, el uso de la Ayahuasca se ha extendido hasta el punto de que muchos la consideran beneficiosa para el tratamiento de diferentes trastornos, en cambio otro sector más ortodoxo de la medicina censura su empleo. Bajo su alargada sombra de mitos y leyendas han surgido falsos chamanes. El resultado: varios inocentes han entrado en una auténtica pesadilla queles ha costado incluso la vida.

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
(Filmed at TEDxHouston.)

Integrative Medicine is not an invitation to supplant evidence with wishful thinking. It is an invitation to a wider array of treatment options, and the prospect of effectively addressing patient need more of the time. Realizing such potential benefi...

Ayahuasca has fans among those who value its power to produce personal insights through hallucinations.

When I first arrived in Iquitos, Peru in July 2012 I did not know what day it was, but within hours of my arrival I had heard much about ayahuasca, an Amazonian jungle vine that, boiled with other jungle plants, causes hallucinations, what people referred to as "visions" that change people's lives, often, they said, for the better, if not for the Good. I was curious, but skeptical. What is this concoction of vines and leaves? What does it really do to the mind and body? Is it truly the miracle cure for the mostly spiritual ills of Modern man? I had to find out for myself

An inspiring film about ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin and his efforts to preserve the expertise of native healers in the depths of the Amazon rain forest. Narrated by Susan Sarandon

The intoxicating infusion implicated in the death of a British teenager in Colombia has been touted as a cure for depression and namechecked by celebrities and musicians. So how harmful is it and is it illegal, asks Paula Cocozza

Have this generation's crop of hippy-dippy indie artists found a new drug to match their music? Devendra Banhart, the Bees and Klaxons have in recent weeks namechecked ayahuasca, a so-called "plant medicine" taken in the Peruvian rainforest over intense 10-day periods

Um dia na aldeia Ikpeng.

It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practiced forms of agriculture and aquaculture, writes Cathy Pryor.