Ayahuasca is a sacred indigenous medicine that’s used in indigenous societies in the Amazon and in other areas of Latin America for the treatment of diseases that afflict both the mind and the body. Some scientists have acknowledged that Ayahuasca can be used as a treatment for Lyme disease and patients offer anecedotal reports of healing. Scientific studies have shown that the neurodegenerative aspects of Lyme disease specifically may be treatable through a thickening of the corpus callosum as a result of Ayahuasca administration. The corpus callosum is a brain structure that connects the right brain and the left brain, which supports the concept that Ayahuasca is a powerful trauma-release therapy.
For those who have been battling Lyme for even a short time, trauma plays a role in this disease. Ayahuasca can help patients get out of the tailspin of trauma while also working to cure Lyme directly through its impact on the immune system and inflammation. For those who are searching for a cure for neurological lyme disease, Ayahuasca is a medicine that’s worth considering.
Harmine for Lyme Disease
Ayahuasca contains harmine, a substance that stimulates the immune system in a way that improves its function overall. Harmine does many things though. It heals the pancreas by regrowing beta cells that produce insulin, for example. Without insulin, our cells can’t eat which leaves them vulnerable to infection. And harmine also plays a role in cleansing the liver, which often plays host to colonizing pathogens like Borrellia burgdorferi and other coinfections.
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) for Lyme Disease
DMT is another substance that’s found in Ayahuasca. DMT has anti-inflammatory properties which can directly influence Lyme disease symptoms to alleviate pain and discomfort, but DMT is actually more famous for its ability to connect a person spiritually to the Divine. While some people may initially seek out Ayahuasca as a medicine to get rid of Lyme disease as a biological problem, in fact, Lyme is often a spiritual issue that can be accessed and worked with through the use of Ayahuasca.
Ayahuasca for Lyme Disease Symptoms
Lyme disease sufferers who wish to work with Ayahuasca should be aware that they will likely need to do a number of trips with this medicine in order to overcome Lyme disease symptoms. We usually recommend that people set out to do at least 30 trips, though the number of trips is variable, of course. The point here is that, rather than thinking that you’re going to do 3 Ayahuasca trips, you need to work with this medicine for a longer time period and more intensively than what you can do on a week-long retreat.
Ayahuasca can diminish the psychological impact of Lyme symptoms which can make it easier for Lyme patients to weather symptoms with more fortitude. But Ayahuasca, when taken with the intention to discover a cure for Lyme disease, can also give patients the actual names of herbs or it can direct the patien to the appropriate treatment. Recently, a news story was published about a group of men who were searching for children who had survived a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest. They used Ayahuasca to locate the children in the rainforest. This is just one example of how Ayahuasca can help you find what you’re looking for without needing to have prior knowledge of medicine or how to heal.
So when you work with Ayahuasca for Lyme disease, you’re not just using it the way that pills are used and prescribed in conventional medicine to treat disease. Ayahuasca does contain powerful medicinal substances that can cure serious diseases like cancer or diabetes, but this medicine is also intelligent and it speaks to people in the literal sense of communication to help users find a cure for their disease. Of course, intention matters with Ayahuasca so if you don’t wish to have the plant speak to you about possible cures for disease, it’s less likely that Ayahuasca will breach your current limitations in regard to how you view medicine and what a medicine might be able to do for you.
Our bodies contain a sort of “human-technology” that provides us with direction through something that’s referred to as “the felt sense” by experts like Dr. Peter Levine, a trauma-informed psychologist. The felt sense is like a “homing” direction that can lead us to places that our logical minds didn’t intend to go. Ayahuasca can embed this “homing” sense of “felt” direction into a person to guide that person to a specific person or treatment for their disease or it can literally give people the names of herbs or even pharmaceuticals that they need in order to cure what ails them. When you complete your Ayahuasca treatment, you may not yet know with your logical mind how to heal your disease, but the direction to take might be embedded in your body’s felt sense. You might get lost and, as a result of being lost, find your way to a specific place in the world where there is a healer or a person who can cure your disease.
None of this is logical, but Ayahuasca works through a different type of sense that exists in our bodies as a natural feeling of direction about what we need in order to heal ourselves. Though most people believe that they use logic to make decisions, in fact, stroke victims whose emotional brain centers are destroyed are not able to make decisions anymore. If areas of the brain are destroyed that give your left brain access to right-brain, emotion-based content, you won’t be able to make even small decisions about whether to sit up in bed or not. It’s a fact that we use our emotions to make a decision and to choose a direction to take with our lives. Our logic serves merely to support the emotion-based “felt sense”. Ayahuasca helps us forge a stronger connection between the right brain and the left brain so that these two parts of us can communicate better and exist in peace rather than in conflict.
Indeed, Ayahuasca is one of the most powerful of the sacred medicines and though the medicinal properties of specific substances may or may not actually cure Borrellia burgdorferi infection physically in the antibiotic sense of things, Ayahuasca can help your body on a soul-level to heal through interaction with healers on other planes of reality. Ayahuasca is the type of medicine that will alter your entire physiology in a positive way. The use of tobacco with Ayahuasca and exposure to nicotine during Ayahuasca ceremony helps to banish negativity and draw shadow-soul-parts into the body for integration with the light.
There are patients who have had remarkable success using Ayahuasca for Lyme disease.
The Science of Ayahuasca for Lyme Disease
Scientists have studied Ayahuasca extensively as a cure for movement disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. With that in mind, some scientists believe that Ayahuasca can restore proper functioning to structures in the brain such as the corpus callosum.
In terms of trauma, the corpus callosum is a vital structure through which the right, creative and symbolic brain communicates with the left, logical brain. The right brain is regarded, in trauma-informed psychology as “the body” while the left brain is regarded as “the mind”. When the body is not able to “tell its story about something traumatic that happened to it” to the mind, illness, emotional pain, and behavioral issues develop. If the body’s trauma reaches critical mass, or if the body becomes host to a miasm (to borrow this concept from homeopathy) of ancestral trauma, biological medicines may not work to overcome the disease. Emotional treatments by psychologists or psychiatrists and prescribed psychoactive drugs can actually do more harm than good by gumming up the right-brain-to-left-brain communication. The patient begins to feel hopeless as a result of this problem of having the “felt sense” of trauma in the body / right brain while the mind is trying to use logical left-brain material to solve the problem.
In one study involving 22 Ayahuasca users and 22 matched controls who did not use Ayahuasca, the thickness of the corpus callosum was measured to determine whether the right-brain and left-brain connections were higher in those using Ayahuasca. The scientists also investigated whether there were point-wise correlations between the corpus callosum thickness and the number of past Ayahuasca sessions. In participants who used Ayahuasca, the corpus callosum within the isthmus was much thicker and there was a significant positive correlation between corpus callosum thickness within the rostral body with a greater number of Ayahuasca sessions. No part of the corpus callosum was negatively impacted by Ayahuasca use in the study.
This study suggests that Ayahuasca can indeed help Lyme disease sufferers overcome neurological aspects of their disease through an actual strengthening of brain tissues.
Ayahuasca Risks with Lyme Disease
People who have long-standing Lyme disease or who have been prescribed psychoactive medications like MAOIs, SSRIs, or even Ritalin, or Adderall will need to detox from these medications before beginning treatment with Ayahuasca for Lyme disease. We advise clients on when they can begin their work with Ayahuasca if they’re wishing to take Ayahuasca at home for Lyme disease after taking psychoactive meds and we also ask that clients who are visiting our Mexico facility provide a full disclosure of the drugs that they take prior to working with Ayahuasca. There is no judgment in terms of disclosure even if patients are working, at times, with street drugs. The full-disclosure regarding medications and street drugs has to do with keeping patients safe and ensuring that they have a productive Ayahuasca trip.
Some people with Lyme disease prefer to work with Ayahuasca in a medical facility. There are medical facilities that work with Ayahuasca for Lyme disease such as the Oasis of Hope facility in Tijuana, Mexico, but nature and the natural world is often used by the sacred medicines to communicate with those who are taking medicines like Ayahuasca. Having access to nature and natural surroundings can be a source of insight when working with the sacred medicines. That being said, Ayahuasca is a very internal experience and some people, especially those who are very ill, might prefer a medical setting when working with Ayahuasca for the first time.
How We Work with Ayahuasca for Lyme Disease
Lydian and I have worked intensively with a number of different sacred medicines, not just Ayahuasca although Ayahuasca is one of our favorites. For those who have never worked with a sacred medicine, and for those who are on a lot of psychoactive prescription medications before they begin their work, we advise on how to make the transition from working with MAOIs and SSRIs, for example, as well as other drugs, to the use of sacred medicines for microdosing initially. We also provide tech-based treatments using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing / EMDR and also sometimes alpha-theta therapy with the DreamLight.app for those who wish to address surface trauma prior to engaging with Ayahuasca for Lyme disease.
Contact us at info@medicinassagradas.com or at info@alivenhealthy.com for more information or to schedule an initial consultation with us about either working with us in-person at our facility or working at home to overcome Lyme disease naturally using Ayahuasca or other sacred medicines.
We work with clients who are located throughout the world.
Resources:
Oasis of Hope Hospital (2023). The Potential of Ayahuasca Treatment for Lyme Disease. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://oasismedicalinstitute.com/ayahuasca-treatment-for-lyme-disease/
The Chronic Comeback (n.d.). How Felix Durden used Ayahuasca and Psychadelics to fully recover from Lyme Disease. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbSi99TOcV0
Simonsson, O. et al. (2022). Preliminary evidence of links between ayahuasca use and the corpus callosum. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9643584/
McDonough, B. (2023). My Ayahuasca Experience. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://medium.com/illumination/my-ayahuasca-experience-a8a573d66a3e
McDonough, B. (2023). My Battle With Lyme Disease. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://medium.com/change-becomes-you/my-battle-with-lyme-disease-b2638dd8823e