be careful,
@IAmCalifornia -- there's a whole cottage industry selling ayahausca to westerners, quality is all over the map, some of them are really dodgy, it's hard to get good/accurate information, and people have died
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...asca-drug-trade-spotlight-after-britons-death
Ayahausca is easy to make and Costa Rica seems like a really, really dangerous place to take a drug like that compared to the US where we have roads and medical infrastructure, but good luck if you do go down that road! It seems like it would have been easier to find a way to participate in a native American peyote ceremony (which is much harder to do as an outsider, because it is not an industry -- and therefore also much less likely to be a scam).
Anyway, I've eaten more than my share of tryptamines, and I will tell you this: if what you're looking for is insight and fearless self-awareness leading to a transformative experience, well, drugs can do that
sometimes. Meditation is a much slower and safer path to some of the same things.
However, if what you're looking for is a tinnitus "cure" -- you're not going to find that in Ayahausca. In fact, over the years I have read a number of reports where people think that DMT (either alone, or in Aya)
gave them tinnitus. And basically every DMT user ever describes hearing the high pitched "carrier wave" during the experience; one of my friends said that it basically seemed like his tinnitus became three times as loud for the duration.
I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but I've watched a lot of people over the years go into psychedelic with unrealistic expectations, and it has often ended badly, clinically badly in some cases.