British mum dies after ‘drinking psychedelic tea’ in Amazon rainforest

A British mum-of-three has died astatine a distant retreat successful the Amazon rainforest aft allegedly drinking a psychedelic beverage laced with the cause ayahuasca.

Social idiosyncratic Maureen Rainford, 54, from Romford, reportedly paid £800 for the ten-day enactment astatine the Ayahuasca and San Pedro Pisatahua Retreat successful Bolivia, her girl was told.

The lodge promotes itself arsenic a ‘sacred space’ to  ‘work with works medicines, including ayahuasca’ and an ‘ideal situation to heal, grow consciousness, and link with the wonders of the Amazon’.

Ayahuasca is simply a almighty plant-based psychedelic that tin origin users to hallucinate, and is considered a Class A amerciable cause successful the UK.

The cause is made by brewing leaves and stalks from section plants into a digestible tea, and has agelong been utilized by indigenous tribes successful South America for spiritual ceremonies.

Maureen’s girl Rochel, 32, said unit astatine the retreat told her that her parent suffered a ‘medical emergency’ soon aft arriving astatine the lodge.

According to witnesses, Maureen reportedly began to kick she was feeling sick astir 10 minutes aft drinking the ayahuasca tea, with her bosom and breathing complaint plummeting soon afterwards.

She past collapsed and died astir an hr later,before a doc arrived pursuing attempts from unit to resuscitate her.

A post-mortem revealed that a bosom onslaught was fixed arsenic the authoritative origin of death, which unit accidental was ‘unrelated’ to the ayahuasca she had ingested.

Rochel told The Sun connected Sunday: ‘There should beryllium a trained medic connected standby erstwhile hallucinogenic drugs are being handed retired successful a distant area. Eric [a idiosyncratic astatine the retreat] tried to importune that she indispensable beryllium cremated successful Bolivia arsenic her assemblage would decompose, but I did not privation immoderate cover-up.’

She said her mother’s assemblage was yet returned to her aft she got successful interaction with the section British Consulate, and that a ceremonial was held past week.

Rochel added: ’I privation to rise consciousness astir these places for radical tempted by glossy brochures selling a dream.’ 

A spokesperson for the retreat claimed that Maureen’s passing was ‘due to a aesculapian exigency that was not related to Ayahuasca.’ 

‘Our bosom goes retired to her family,’ they added.

Recent years person seen the Amazon acquisition a roar successful Western tourists travelling to retreats successful bid to instrumentality portion successful ayahuasca ceremonies, seeking holistic therapy.

In Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, helium admitted taking portion successful ayahuasca therapy successful bid to assistance him flooded PTSD caused by his mother’s death.

He wrote: ‘[Ayahuasca] didn’t simply let maine to flight world for a while, they fto maine redefine reality,’ earlier adding helium would not counsel taking it recreationally.

Following Maureen’s death, her loved ones created a GoFundMe in bid to assistance her household with ceremonial and affectional costs. The fundraiser reads: ‘Maureen… Our beloved workfellow and for immoderate of us….. a adjacent friend, died abruptly portion connected a “wellness retreat” successful South America. Maureen’s emotion of question and her curiosity took her to the Bolivian Amazon to detox from the sound of London and enactment for 10 days.

‘It was a travel she was eagerly looking guardant to, sharing her excitement with everyone with her accustomed vibrancy and zest for beingness and travel…a clip for reflection and idiosyncratic development. We waited for her instrumentality to stock her stories, with fascination and expectation; that the agelong distances she had travelled to acquisition this retreat would beryllium reflected successful a re-invigorated Maureen…

‘We person organised this GoFundMe to cod funds for her contiguous household to easiness immoderate fiscal load and successful Maureen’s memory. This tiny motion besides allows america to retrieve Maureen for the fantastic idiosyncratic she was and support her children and grandchildren successful our thoughts during this hard time.’

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