Sentences with phrase «ayahuasca by»

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Exceptions are made for Native American churchgoers, who are allowed by law to use peyote in prayer meetings, and members of a branch of a Brazilian - based church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who have won court battles for the right to use the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in their religious rituals.

Studies by Charles Grob, a psychiatrist at the Harbor - UCLA Medical Center, and others suggest that ingesting ayahuasca has no adverse neurocognitive effects.

Their fascination with ayahuasca stems from a little - known mind - altering compound called dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a substance the sacred tea contains by the bucketload.

First synthesized by a Canadian chemist in 1931, DMT is the primary active ingredient of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea ingested as a sacrament by Amazonian Indians and by members of two churches in Brazil.