Ayahuasca is used as a psychoactive brew, used as a traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the Peruvian tribes in the Amazon Basin. This is traditionally made of Banisteriopsis caapi (the vine) and other ingredients - a shrub called Chacruna and sometimes bark of Mimosa hostilis which contains DMT in it which is naturally released by the human brain at the point of birth and the moment before death. It is often explained as 'all of your life flashing in front of you'. Ayahuasca is said to help come to terms with emotional baggage. Most people have had a profound life-changing experience after taking it.