[elkfersupper]

No thanks.

I think I'll just continue to live with my various life-wounds.

[ottbmare]

Let’s see: vomiting, diarrhea, stirring-around of brain chemicals. Sounds delightful. I think I’ll skip it, thanks ever so. There are other ways to enlightenment that don’t risk my one and only brain.

[Jack Hydrazine]

So physicians and psychiatrists will now become witch doctors/medicine men/shamans?

[Vince Ferrer]

This reminds me of the happy cult Vulcan in Star Trek V

I need my pain

[DemforBush]

Like any other potentially useful chemical compound, the active agents in Ayahusca may provide help with some disorders, be useless for others, and possibly harmful in a few. I won’t write it off as junk science at this point, but neither will I buy in to the “wonder drug” mindset that some in the article are touting.

BTW, on an interesting note; supposedly part of Ayahusca’s benefits for locals who imbibe it is that the purging (at both ends) helps control parasitical infections in the digestive tract. Don’t know if that’s a medically sound premise or not, but that’s supposedly one of the uses for the stuff amongs locals.

[SIDENET]

I think I’ll stick with beer.

[corkoman]

Thanks for posting the whole article - the font on that website is tiny. Very good article and timely. The utility of ayahuasca for helping with issues from the past is such that it will likely be reviewed for clinical use status.

Those who approach ayahuasca as a recreational trip are usually the ones not prepared for what they actually experience. It is not a pleasant experience. Most will shed tears yet afterwards report a positive sensation.

The success rate with treating recidivist addicts is interesting for perhaps having revealed mental processes that had not been considered. If so then there is hope for another approach for helping those who seem beyond reach.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Every drug scourge has begun with a similar story.

I remember reading a Time magazine article about 25 years ago about a wonderful new drug named Ecstasy that was going to solve everyone's problems.

[dadgum]

Scary stuff. MAOIs interact with many foods and antidepressants. Very dangerous and sometimes fatal.

[Ransomed]

“Her first dose of the nasty, rust-colored liquid was blasting through her system.”

I see what they did there.

“In a room with 500 other people, Mc­Kenna drank first one cup, then a second...”

I hope it works for them and they were prepared for facility-overwhelming blasting on a Woodstock scale.

Freegards

[ifinnegan]

Recycled BS from decades ago (eg Tim Leary).

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk