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Ayahuasca.

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11 trial rows 2 update rows Latest checked: May 15, 2026 All trials
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Trial rows
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NCT07317232 Not Applicable Recruiting updated Jan 5, 2026

Ayahuasca, Esketamine and Premenstrual Symptoms

Condition
Healthy Women Volunteers
Sponsor / institution
University of Sao Paulo
Start date
Dec 20, 2025
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov manual verification on 2026-04-17 | Overall status: RECRUITING | Exact phase: Not Applicable | Lead sponsor: University of Sao Paulo | Conditions: Healthy Women Volunteers | Interventions: Ayahuasca; Esketamine

NCT07317219 Not Applicable Recruiting updated Jan 5, 2026

Ayahuasca, Esketamine and Body Image Perception

Condition
Healthy Women Volunteers
Sponsor / institution
University of Sao Paulo
Start date
Dec 20, 2025
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov manual verification on 2026-04-17 | Overall status: RECRUITING | Exact phase: Not Applicable | Lead sponsor: University of Sao Paulo | Conditions: Healthy Women Volunteers | Interventions: Ayahuasca; Esketamine

NCT07317206 Phase 2 Recruiting updated Jan 5, 2026

Ayahuasca, Esketamine and PTSD

Condition
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Sponsor / institution
University of Sao Paulo
Start date
Dec 20, 2025
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov manual verification on 2026-04-17 | Overall status: RECRUITING | Exact phase: Phase 2 | Lead sponsor: University of Sao Paulo | Conditions: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Interventions: Ayahuasca; Esketamine

NCT07212946 Phase 2 Completed updated Dec 29, 2025

Ayahuasca and Esketamine for Major Depression

Condition
Major Depression Severe
Sponsor / institution
University of Sao Paulo
Start date
Oct 30, 2022
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov manual QA on 2026-04-17 | Status: Completed | Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo | Official title: Four Doses of Ayahuasca or Esketamine in Major Depressive Disorder: a Double-blind Randomized Trial | Condition: Major Depression Severe | Intervention: Ayahuasca; Esketamine | Study type: Interventional | Comparator intervention also includes esketamine, so this row is tagged to both Ayahuasca and Ketamine.

NCT02914769 Phase 1/2 Completed updated Apr 6, 2025

Antidepressant Effects of Ayahuasca: a Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial in Treatment Resistant Depression

Condition
Major Depression
Sponsor / institution
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Start date
Feb 1, 2014
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: COMPLETED | Exact phase: Phase 1/Phase 2 | Lead sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte | Conditions: Major Depression | Interventions: Ayahuasca; placebo

NCT06252506 Phase 1 Completed updated Mar 19, 2025

Molecular Imaging Study of Harmine/DMT: a Basic Research Approach

Condition
Neuropharmacological Investigation of Ayahuasca Constituents DMT and Harmine
Sponsor / institution
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Start date
Jan 22, 2024
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: COMPLETED | Exact phase: Phase 1 | Lead sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern | Conditions: Neuropharmacological Investigation of Ayahuasca Constituents DMT and Harmine | Interventions: N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) + harmine; Placebo

NCT06150859 Phase 2 Active updated Dec 11, 2023

Ayahuasca Assisted Psychotherapy for Grief

Condition
Bereavement
Sponsor / institution
Beckley Med Foundation
Start date
Oct 15, 2021
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-10 | Overall status: UNKNOWN | Exact phase: Phase 2 | Lead sponsor: Beckley Med Foundation | Conditions: Bereavement

NCT05829603 Phase 1 Completed updated Nov 2, 2023

Dose-finding Study for the Combination of DMT and Harmine in Healthy Subjects

Condition
Healthy
Sponsor / institution
Reconnect Labs
Start date
May 5, 2023
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: COMPLETED | Exact phase: PHASE1 | Lead sponsor: Reconnect Labs | Conditions: Healthy | Interventions: Dimethyltryptamin (DMT) & Harmine | Notes: DMT + harmine combination tagged as Ayahuasca, DMT because the registry explicitly lists both ayahuasca-relevant constituents.

NCT05780216 Phase 1 Completed updated Sep 21, 2023

Mindfulness and Psychedelics

Condition
Healthy Participants
Sponsor / institution
Milan Scheidegger
Start date
Feb 20, 2023
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: COMPLETED | Exact phase: Early Phase 1 | Lead sponsor: Milan Scheidegger | Conditions: Healthy Participants | Interventions: DMT + harmine; Placebo | Notes: Summary explicitly frames Ayahuasca as the relevant plant preparation context.

NCT05894902 Phase 1 Active updated Jul 7, 2023

Open-Label Dose-Ranging Study of Oral SM-001 in Healthy Adults

Condition
Major Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sponsor / institution
Advanced Integrative Medical Science Institute
Start date
Oct 1, 2023
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: UNKNOWN | Exact phase: Phase 1 | Lead sponsor: Advanced Integrative Medical Science Institute | Conditions: Major Depression; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | Interventions: SM-001 | Notes: Brief summary describes SM-001 as a standardized Ayahuasca analog. Tracker status mapped to Active because UNKNOWN is not an available status option.

NCT04716335 Phase 1 Completed updated Oct 4, 2022

Neurodynamics of Prosocial Emotional Processing Following Serotonergic Stimulation With N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and Harmine in Healthy Subjects

Condition
Emotions, Mood, Cognitive Function 1, Social, Empathy
Sponsor / institution
Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich
Start date
Dec 1, 2020
Tracker note / source boundary

ClinicalTrials.gov v2 sync on 2026-04-18 | Overall status: COMPLETED | Exact phase: EARLY_PHASE1 | Lead sponsor: Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich | Conditions: Emotions; Mood; Cognitive Function 1, Social; Empathy | Interventions: DMT; Harmine; Placebo (Harmine); Placebo (DMT) | Notes: DMT + harmine combination tagged as Ayahuasca, DMT because the registry explicitly lists both ayahuasca-relevant constituents.

May 15, 2026 Last checked 2026-05-15 UTC Publication Research

iScience uses leaf-image machine learning to test Banisteriopsis caapi folk classifications

Claim boundary.ethnobotany/classification and wiki/source-map item only; not clinical evidence about ayahuasca effects, safety, efficacy, legal access, or medical use.

PubMed PMID 42100741 / iScience evaluates whether machine-learning models on dried-leaf images can recover folk classifications of Banisteriopsis caapi, the ayahuasca vine; reported SVM overall accuracy reached about 70%, with higher accuracy for some folk types and lower accuracy where morphology overlaps.

Source/tracker note

Last checked 2026-05-15 UTC. Claim boundary: ethnobotany/classification and wiki/source-map item only; not clinical evidence about ayahuasca effects, safety, efficacy, legal access, or medical use.

May 8, 2026 Last checked 2026-05-15 UTC Publication Research

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics maps registered ayahuasca/DMT trials

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PubMed PMID 42104189 / Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics scoping review identifies 26 eligible registered interventional trials of DMT, ayahuasca, and DMT plus harmine on ClinicalTrials.gov. Review says the registry landscape expanded after 2020–2021 and remains dominated by early-stage safety/physiological and subjective-effect characterization, with disorder-specific symptom endpoints less often primary.

Source/tracker note

Last checked 2026-05-15 UTC. Claim boundary: review/registry-map item only; supports wiki/trial-landscape context, not clinical efficacy/safety conclusion, approval, label, reimbursement, or access.

BereavementEmotions, Mood, Cognitive Function 1, Social, EmpathyHealthyHealthy ParticipantsHealthy Women VolunteersMajor DepressionMajor Depression SevereMajor Depression, Post Traumatic Stress DisorderNeuropharmacological Investigation of Ayahuasca Constituents DMT and HarminePosttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)