[stelonix]

I have been taking it for the past 7 years, sometimes a couple times a month, sometimes more, and have zero physical damage from it. It's pretty common in indigenous communities or other ayahuasca centers to give it to children, yeah. No records of anything bad happening to them. In the church I attend, there's people who have been taking it for the past 28 years with no issues at all.

[___q]

This post should have an asterisk. It is not risk free, a primary concern being drug-to-drug interactions. That said, a lethal dose is 10-20x what is typically administered.

> Adverse health effects may occur from casual use of ayahuasca, particularly when serotonergic substances are used in conjunction. [1]

The heightened sense of internal reality for DMT users is mostly due to its interaction with the visual cortex.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20170810122337/https://www.iceer...

[stelonix]

Adverse health effects happen with every substance if you take it while taking other, incompatible substances.

My comment meant if you take it as it is recommended and follow the instructions, it should do you no harm. Following its instructions means not taking it while on specific types of antidepressants & anxiolytics and from the pov of most churches/centers, not taking it recreatively and/or without guidance or anything outside a controlled, ceremonial setting.

Of course, if you take clonazepan with alcohol you may get high, but it's dangerous for you and in no way supported or incentivized by their respective companies. Just the same with ayahuasca. No need for no asterisk since the comment does not attempt to proselytize people into taking it, nor does it try to hide the infinite possible combinations of other substances with dmt/aya.

EDIT: There are some other (obvious) recommendations, which apply for hallucinogenic drugs too: don't take it if you're schizoid, for example.

[j4hdufd8]

> I have been taking it for the past 7 years, sometimes a couple times a month, sometimes more, and have zero physical damage from it.

> there's people who have been taking it for the past 28 years with no issues at all.

What makes you say there is no damage in either of these cases?

[mam4]

Thats a dumb question. Why look for problem if there isnt.

Plus its the basics of medicine: no symptoms, no disease.

[j4hdufd8]

You seem quite offended and defensive towards a very harmless question, from someone who dabbles in psychedelics as well :)

But you do you, boo

[mam4]

Are you sure theres no long term damage to wearing clothes ? How could you be ?