Ayahuasca May Have Facilitated Kids’ Rescue in the Amazon
A group of four children that recently went missing in the Amazon forest after a plane crash may owe their rescue to ayahuasca. Some people believe ayahuasca played a role in an almost-divine act of intervention that saw the indigenous volunteers and Colombian army scour the expansive rainforest in a race against time to save the missing children. Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic brew made from hallucinogenic ingredients such as N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Originating and primarily consumed in Southern America, ayahuasca is said to have neuroprotective, memory-boosting, anti-inflammatory properties. Some studies have also found that the psychedelic can increase mindfulness,…