» Ayahuasca can boost personal development, psychological and emotional wellbeing, social harmony and cohesion, and spiritual or religious experiences.
» Promotes “decentering,”4 or the ability to observe thoughts and emotions as transitory events of the mind without being trapped by them.
» Promotes mindfulness and cognitive flexibility,5 allowing people to contemplate events, situations and relationships from detached perspectives.
» Ayahuasca has shown anti-depressant effects in patients with major depression, effects that were sustained for 21 days after the administration of a single dose. 6
» Various forms of purging, such as vomiting, are sought after-effects that promote physical, emotional and energetic cleansing.1, 2
» Confronting difficult emotional or psychological content can be transformative and healing.3
» Positive outcomes in grief therapy, persisting at a one-year follow-up including some mechanisms of action previosuly undescribed in the literature.7
» Potential neuroprotective8 and neurogenerative9,10 properties that might prove useful for the treatment of dementia and a variety of neurodegenerative diseases.