[elevaet]

By that token, what specifically is the clinical benefit to the vomit stage of chemo?

The argument is that the vomiting is a necessary step of this powerful medicine, and that the medicine is curing mental disease.

I'm not defending ayahuasca, I actually do think it's a sketchy corner of the psychedelic world to be trodden on very carefully, if at all. Just trying to supply the perspective.

[quickthrower2]

Chemo: you might vomit, if you do it is expected, if you don't that is OK you still got the treatment.

Ayahuasca (to some people): wot you didn't vomit? if you didn't vomit, it never happened.

[aosmith]

There's no benefit to puking you guts, it's a side effect. Chemo is basically poison.