在亚马逊热带雨林深处，流传着一种名为“死藤水”（Ayahuasca）的神秘饮料。这种由当地植物熬制而成的苦涩液体，自古便在原住民的宗教仪式中扮演着重要角色，被视为连接人与神灵的神圣媒介。20世纪中叶，这份来自雨林的秘方开始在全球流传开来。 科学家 ...

Research in mice has found that N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the active ingredients of the psychedelic tea ayahuasca, can spark the creation of new nerve cells and improve spatial learning and ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. When Johannes Reckweg arrived in the Netherlands in 2016 to work on his master’s program in neuropsychology, he didn’t expect to learn about a ...

For two days, Akasha Song had been riding in the passenger seat of a dusty Fiat truck through the desert-like shrublands of northeastern Brazil. The region, known as the caatinga, gets so hot and dry ...

Hallucinations. Vivid images. Intense sounds. Greater self-awareness. Those are the hallmark effects associated with the world’s four most popular psychedelic drugs. Ayahuasca, DMT, MDMA and ...