At the center of the new psychedelic renaissance is an Amazonian tea called ayahuasca, which contains dimethyltryptamine or DMT, one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to science. Traditionally brewed by indigenous shamans in places like Peru and Brazil, ayahuasca is gaining more mainstream appeal for its purported use in treating addiction, treatment-resistant depression and PTSD.
How does ayahuasca help? Recent research in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology suggests it partially has to do with the “afterglow effect,” a period of positive mental and physical effects that last long after a certain drug has metabolized in your body.
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