Horizonte
March 31, 2026
Arilton Martins Fonseca, Eliana Rodrigues
O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar a religiosidade entre usuários experientes (com mais de 20 anos de uso ritual de Ayahuasca), iniciantes (com menos de 3 anos), adeptos de um centro daimista, município de Piedade - SP, e não usuários de Ayahuasca. Foi realizado um estudo observacional, descritivo e transversal, do qual participaram 48 pessoas, distribuídas em dois grupos: (a) grupo estudo:...
Psychoactives
February 3, 2026
Eliana Rodrigues
Interest in psychoactive substances, including psychedelics, is rapidly expanding in medical, academic, and other popular fields. Despite the classifications established within the psychopharmacological scientific community, certain plants, animals, and fungi, as well as the substances obtained from them, have been misclassified by both the media and academic circles. This opinion piece aims to...
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
March 1, 2025
Arilton Martins Fonseca, Rafael Guimarães Dos Santos, Lívia Soman de Medeiros et al.
10 citations
Although several studies have been conducted to elucidate the relationship between psychedelic consumption and cognition, few have focused on understanding the long-term use influence of these substances on these variables, especially in ritualistic contexts. To verify the influence of ritualistic ayahuasca consumption on the cognition of experienced ayahuasca religious users (> 20 years) and...
Revista de Ciências Farmacêutica Básica e Aplicadas - RCFBA
2021
Arilton Martins Fonseca, Eliana Rodrigues
Objectives: The objectives of this study were (a) to describe the history of the formation of the Centro Luz Divina (CLD), Piedade, São Paulo, (b) to describe the plants and recipes involved in making ayahuasca, and (c) to provide information for future chemical and pharmacological studies of ayahuasca. Methods: During the 578 hours of fieldwork between 2017 and 2019, 10 interviewees were...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 1, 2006
Eliana Rodrigues, E A Carlini
The present study deals with two ethnobotanical surveys carried out in two different segments of the Brazilian population: the first among the Krahô Indians living in Tocantins State, a Cerrado region, and the second one among the descendants of former black slaves, the Quilombolas, living in Mato Grosso State. Both populations use plants which may have effects on the central nervous system...