University of Washington Press eBooks
December 31, 2011
Twenty minutes in, like clockwork , the visions begin. They are strong but I was expecting them this time . Norma, the vegetalista who so astonished me with her care, skill and knowledge during my first ceremony two nights prior, had packed a big bowl with a knot of the local Nicotina Rustica and had blown curling, whistling smoke over a plastic liter bottle filled with an opaque orangish...
Periferia
December 26, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Kevin Feeney
6 citations
"Este artigo propõe um resumo e uma análise da regulamentação da ayahuasca no Brasil, desde sua pro ibição em meados dos anos 80 até a recente adoção da Resolução de 2 010 do CONAD, que estabeleceu um conjunto de regras, normas e pri ncípios éticos a serem aplicados aos usos religiosos e rituais da ayahuasca. O processo regulatório do Brasil é usado como ponto de pa rtida para explorar o...
Ponto Urbe
December 1, 2011
Katerina Volcov, Henrique Antunes, Roberta Costa et al.
1 citation
“Dá pra se livrar do vício em drogas usando outra? Como é que uma substância alucinógena pode tratar da dependência? Ayahuasca é droga? E o usuário em drogas ou álcool pode ficar viciado em ayahuasca? Como é esse tratamento? Ele funciona mesmo?” Essas são apenas algumas das perguntas que surgem imediatamente ao abordar essa temática. O I Encontro “Ayahuasca e o Tratamento da Dependência”[2],...
Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar
December 1, 2011
Henrique Fernandes Antunes
4 citations
Partindo de um mapeamento bibliográfico e da análise da literatura acadêmica, principalmente a antropológica, empreendo um recorte analítico que privilegia a reconstituição histórica do uso da ayahuasca ao longo de três décadas de debate. Não se trata de discorrer sobre a história do uso da ayahuasca no Brasil, mas de que modo tal história é formulada pela literatura acadêmica. Para isso, o...
Journal of Chromatography B
November 17, 2011
Alain Gaujac, Adriano Aquino, Sandro Navickiene et al.
30 citations
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent hallucinogen found in beverages consumed in religion rituals and neo-shamanic practices over the world. Two of these religions, Santo Daime and União do Vegetal (UDV), are represented in countries including Australia, the United States and several European nations. In some of this countries there have been legal disputes concerning the legalization of...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 15, 2011
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Marta Valle, José Carlos Bouso et al.
136 citations
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychotropic plant tea combining the 5-HT2A agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and monoamine oxidase-inhibiting β-carboline alkaloids that render DMT orally active. The tea, obtained from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, has traditionally been used for religious, ritual, and medicinal purposes by the indigenous peoples of the region. More recently, the...
Human Brain Mapping
September 16, 2011
Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Sidarta Ribeiro, Guillermo Cecchi et al.
241 citations
Abstract The hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca, a rich source of serotonergic agonists and reuptake inhibitors, has been used for ages by Amazonian populations during religious ceremonies. Among all perceptual changes induced by Ayahuasca, the most remarkable are vivid “seeings.” During such seeings, users report potent imagery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a closed‐eyes...
Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia
September 15, 2011
Carolina Dizioli Rodrigues de Oliveira, Camila Queiroz Moreira, Helenice de Souza Spinosa et al.
25 citations
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic beverage prepared by the decoction of plants native to the Amazon Basin region. The beverage has been used throughout the world by members of some syncretic religious movements. Despite the recent legalization of ayahuasca in Brazil for religious purposes, there is little pre-clinical and clinical information attesting to its safety, particularly in relation to the...
Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
August 25, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
14 citations
This article comments on the agreement signed in 2010 between a US branch of the Brazilian ayahuasca religion União do Vegetal (UDV) and the US Drug Enforcement Agency. This document settles a dispute regarding administrative issues involving ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used by this group as a religious sacrament. The government originally confiscated this substance in 1999, and the matter...
International Journal of Drug Policy
August 19, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Kevin Feeney
142 citations
BackgroundThis paper provides a summary and analysis of the regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil, from its prohibition in the mid-eighties to the recent adoption of CONAD's (Conselho Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas) 2010 Resolution, which established a set of rules, norms and ethical principles to be applied to religious and ritual uses of ayahuasca. Brazil's regulatory process is used as a...
August 15, 2011
Bruno Ramos Gomes
11 citations
Esta pesquisa visa a compreender o uso ritual da ayahuasca (chamado de Daime pelos participantes) na recuperação de pessoas em situação de rua pela Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, grupo situado em São Paulo. A ayahuasca é um chá feito da mistura de algumas plantas amazônicas, mais comumente o jagube e a chacrona, utilizado de forma ritual por populações indígenas e...
Psychopharmacology
August 12, 2011
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Eva Grasa, Marta Valle et al.
139 citations
RationaleAyahuasca is an Amazonian tea containing the natural psychedelic 5-HT(2A/2C/1A) agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It is used in ceremonial contexts for its visionary properties. The human pharmacology of ayahuasca has been well characterized following its administration in single doses.ObjectivesTo evaluate the human pharmacology of ayahuasca in repeated doses and assess the...
Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie
August 1, 2011
Lisa Fiedler, Henrik Jungaberle, Rolf Verres
4 citations
Objectives: The Santo Daime Church is a religious community originally founded in Brazil which has increasingly attracted followers in Europe and worldwide. An important element of the religious ceremonies is the ingestion of a psychoactive substance known as ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive or visionary-state-inducing concoction of plants, which contains, amongst other substances,...
Oxford University Press eBooks
July 28, 2011
Benny Shanon
3 citations
Abstract This chapter examines the musical facets of the special state of mind induced by ayahuasca, a powerful Amazonian psychoactive brew especially famous for the vivid hallucinations that it induces. The chapter is divided into three parts. The first presents background information concerning ayahuasca and its scientific study, and discusses the use of music in ayahuasca rituals. The second...
June 8, 2011
Ana Paula Salum Pires
\n O uso de substâncias alucinógenas há muito tempo é alvo de discussões, em virtude do grande número de adeptos que possui e das conseqüências que pode acarretar ao indivíduo e ao complexo contexto social no qual ele se enquadra na sociedade. Dentro desse panorama vem se destacando à utilização de uma bebida denominada ayahuasca, preparada pela infusão de plantas nativas da região da Bacia...
May 25, 2011
Danylo Kosovych
This thesis explores the use of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant concoction from the Amazon, by people from the English speaking world. This thesis argues that there is no “original” or “typical” use of ayahuasca; it is a dynamic practice that has undergone massive change. In order to show this change, this thesis describes the different roles that shamans have had as a result of colonialism...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 28, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
32 citations
In 2010, the Brazilian Government agency responsible for drug-related issues formulated official Resolutions that categorized the consumption of ayahuasca by pregnant women and children in the Santo Daime and União do Vegetal ayahuasca-based religions as an "exercise of parental rights." Although ayahuasca groups do enjoy a relative degree of social legitimacy and formal legal recognition in...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2011
Stanley Krippner, Joseph Sulla
6 citations
There has been little rigorous research on the content of ayahuasca sessions, despite the tribal use of this herbal concoction and the existence of three Brazilian churches in which ayahuasca is considered a sacrament. The Casto Spirituality Scoring System, a reliable measure designed to identify content in dream reports, was utilized to answer the following question: Is it possible to identify...
Planta Medica
March 1, 2011
Lj Standish, Dean B. Reardon, Simon Phipps et al.
Ayahuasca is an ancient psychoactive ethnobotanical medicine tea used by indigenous S. American tribes as a religious sacrament. It is made from the vine of B. caapi and the leaves of P. viridis and represents an ancient yet 'novel' short and long-term serotonin agonist. Here we present preclinical pharmacognosy data as an early step towards phase I and II clinical trials of ayahuasca in...
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
February 18, 2011
Marcelo Augusto Gonçalves Bardi, Evelyn Edith Gutiérrez-oppe, R. Politano
1 citation
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2011) 6(1): 34–42 first published online November 19, 2010 doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpq153 The publishers would like to apologise for omitting to reproduce a vital citation in the above article. This was an unfortunate oversight, as the authors had included the citation in their original draft. The citation should have been as follows: KW Tupper,...