At the BBC News, Dr. David Cox explores "What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics": …[UC ...

Since this remarkable discovery evidence of another ancient psychedelic cocktail has been discovered on the other side of the world. Research led by Davide Tanasi at the University of South ...

Online, products marketed as blue lotus claim to offer relaxation and even psychedelic experiences — but they're a far cry ...

For millennia, humans have been extracting and using natural psychedelics to alter their moods and perceptions, distorting their sense of reality. From Amazonian Ayahuasca rituals to ancient use ...

and its flowers often adorn ancient papyri scrolls. Scholars have long hypothesized that the lilies, when soaked in wine, release psychedelic properties used in hallucination-and-sex-fueled ...

Some academics believe ancient Irish warriors used psychoactive substances — magic mushrooms, liberty cap, and fly agaric — ...

Going into a dissociative state may help people survive such circumstances. Humans and other animals also produce endogenous psychedelics, some of which are identical or closely related to those ...