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judgement or motor coordination is required.

taken in combination with alcohol or other drugs.

Use of ayahuasca is likely to be more dangerous when:

Taking ayahuasca in an environment and with people where you feel safe may alleviate unpleasant emotional effects.Sometimes other drugs may be sold claiming to be ayahuasca that aren’t.People with mental health conditions or a family history of these conditions should avoid using ayahuasca.People can have very different experiences taking the same drug on different occasions. It is difficult to predict the strength and effects of ayahuasca.If you do decide to take ayahuasca, it’s important to consider the following. There is no safe way to use psychedelic drugs, including ayahuasca. Use of more than one drug or type of drug consumed at the same time is called polydrug use.

The effects of taking ayahuasca with other drugs − including over-the-counter or prescribed medications − can be unpredictable and dangerous.Īyahuasca + MDMA or anti-depressants: because of the presence of MAOIs, mixing ayahuasca with other drugs that affect serotonin such as MDMA or anti-depressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), may be particularly dangerous. Repeated use of ayahuasca does not appear to result in tolerance to the effects, and it appears to pose an extremely limited risk for dependence. Long-term effectsĪyahuasca does not appear to have a negative impact on the body.1 Existing research indicates that long-term use of ayahuasca is not associated with a loss of cognitive functioning or negative mental health outcomes. **These experiences may be understood or interpreted differently in a traditional or ritual context, where they may be seen as lessons and part of a spiritual or healing journey rather than wholly negative.

frightening or confronting hallucinations.

Some people may have negative experiences taking psychedelics, or experiences they find challenging.** This can include experiencing: 4 For example, using ayahuasca in a calm, quiet and relaxed environment can lead to a please experience, but being in a noisy, crowded place may result in a negative experience.

Setting: the environment in which someone consumes ayahuasca – whether it’s known and familiar, who they’re with, if they’re indoors or outdoors, the type of music and light.

4 For example, feelings of anxiety or fear before using ayahuasca can be magnified and result in an unpleasant experience.

Set: a person’s state of mind, previous encounters with psychoactive drugs, and expectations of what’s going to happen.

1 Set and SettingĪyahuasca can have varied effects depending on a person’s mood (often called the ‘set’) or the environment they are in (the ‘setting’): *When ayahuasca is taken in a traditional or ritual setting, these effects may be perceived as cleansing or purging and a part of the spiritual or healing journey.

moderate increase in blood pressure and heart rate.

intense visual and auditory hallucinations.

nausea and vomiting (induced by drinking the decoction)*.

The effects of ayahuasca can last between 4- to 6-hours and may include:

the strength of the decoction (varies from batch to batch).whether other drugs are taken around the same time.whether the person is used to taking it.It’s important to be careful when taking any type of drug.Īyahuasca affects everyone differently, based on: Use of any drug always carries some risk. Huasca, yagé, Kamarampi, Huni, brew, daime, the tea, la purgaĪyahuasca is drunk as a liquid. 1 What does it look like?Īyahuasca is a brown-reddish drink with a strong taste and smell. 2Īyahuasca has been used for centuries by First Nations peoples from contemporary Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador for religious ritual and therapeutic purposes. 1 It also contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). 1 The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT (dimethyltryptamine). They can cause a person to hallucinate-seeing or hearing things that do not exist or are distorted.Īyahuasca is a decoction (concentrated liquid) made by prolonged heating or boiling of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, although there can be a variety of other plants included in the decoction for different traditional purposes. Psychedelics affect all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions. Ayahuasca (pronounced ‘eye-ah-WAH-ska’) is a plant-based psychedelic.