Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems
Carlos Minuano
June 23, 2026 DOI: 10.66709/news-321692 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical |
|---|---|
| Population | Amazonian Indigenous communities and global ayahuasca users |
| Topics | Ayahuasca |
| Keywords | Amazon rainforest Indigenous Traditional knowledge Amazonian State computer science Environmental resource management Amazon basin Environmental planning Environmental protection Agroforestry Warning system |
| Key points | Argues that the Amazon is being destroyed, threatening its role as a source of medicines, and that ayahuasca is a subject of growing debate. |
Abstract
“One of the world’s largest pharmacies is being destroyed,” says Benki Piyãko, a leader of the Ashaninka Indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Acre. The warning points to multiple threats advancing on the Amazon but also to growing debate surrounding one of the so-called forest medicines: ayahuasca. This Indigenous beverage with psychedelic properties is […]
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on ayahuasca, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The globalization of ayahuasca: Harm reduction or benefit maximization? | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond | 2014 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations. | 2022 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon: the globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice | 2008 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |