Espaço Ameríndio
April 28, 2024
Rejane Nunes, Roseli Waynambi Omágua, Rosangela Pötyra Kambeba et al.
A ayahuasca, assim como outras plantas medicinais, é tradicionalmente usada por povos indígenas da América do Sul, mas vem sendo incorporada por grupos não indígenas com pouca ou nenhuma referência a esse uso ancestral. Este artigo traz relatos de usos da ayahuasca e de outras plantas medicinais por estudantes do PET Conexões Saberes Indígenas da UFSCar pertencentes a diferentes povos indígenas...
Revista Ouricuri
April 23, 2024
Felipe Teixeira
Analisar efeitos terapêuticos da ayahuasca sobre aspectos emocionais em indivíduos que utilizam a bebida em contexto religioso. Este estudo qualitativo, observacional e exploratório, foi realizado entre março e abril de 2021. A amostra consistiu em 10 participantes adeptos da religião ayahuasqueira Santo Daime, associados ao Centro Espiritualista Céu de Francisco, dos quais, cinco eram do sexo...
Ecosystems and People
April 18, 2024
David Manuel‐navarrete, Serena Deluca, Fabio Friso et al.
7 citations
The use of psychedelic substances is increasingly associated with nature-relatedness. We explore whether entheogenic uses of ayahuasca in settings co-produced between Indigenous and Western knowledges may also foster relationality and sustainability transformations across ontology, praxis, and epistemology. A survey with 74 English-speaking individuals who attended Amazonian healing ceremonies...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
April 6, 2024
Pedro Santana Sales Lauria, Juliana de Medeiros Gomes, Lucas Silva Abreu et al.
10 citations
Ayahuasca (AYA) is a psychedelic brew used in religious ceremonies. It is broadly used as a sacred medicine for treating several ailments, including pain of various origins. To investigate the antinociceptive effects of AYA and its mechanisms in preclinical models of acute and chronic pain in mice, in particular during experimental neuropathy. The antinociceptive effects of AYA administered...
Clinical Toxicology
April 1, 2024
Rachael Wilkes, Darren M Roberts, Paul Liknaitzky et al.
8 citations
The global use of certain classical psychedelics has increased in recent years, but little is known about their spectrum of toxicity within Australia. We aim to describe calls to New South Wales Poisons Information Centre relating to exposures to classical psychedelics including lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, ayahuasca, mescaline and ibogaine. This is a...
Psychoactives
March 31, 2024
Rishma S. I. Khubsing, Martin van Leerdam, Eline Haijen et al.
3 citations
Background: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the therapeutic potential of classical psychedelics like ayahuasca for mental health improvement. Naturalistic studies at ayahuasca retreats have shown (short-term) improvements in mental well-being but understanding the psychological mechanisms is crucial. We are interested in psychological processes such as resilience,...
March 27, 2024
Piera Talin
L'ayahuasca à la croisée : une ethnographie des usages rituels de l'ayahuasca entre le Brésil urbain et l'Europe Cette thèse a pour objet les nouveaux usages rituels de l’ayahuasca, un breuvage d’herbes amazonien aux propriétés psychoactives, qui naissent de son passage d’un cadre traditionnel à un cadre cosmopolite urbain. Mon étude porte sur des exemples particuliers de transformation et de...
March 22, 2024
Ricardo Assarice Dos Santos
dos quais 100% alegaram vivenciar ao menos algum tipo de experincia anmala.Os resultados revelaram uma diversidade de experincias, destacando a prevalncia de Experincias Msticas (95%), Experincias Visionrias (93,5%) e Experincias Fora do Corpo (86,8%).A pesquisa tambm identificou considervel prevalncia de experincias ufolgicas (42,9%), correlacionadas com fatores psicossociais como crenas
Archaeometry
March 17, 2024
Enrico Greco, Laurent Rivier, Giorgio Samorini et al.
5 citations
Abstract The primary objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges involved in detecting ancient ayahuasca, a traditional hallucinogenic drink from the Amazon region, which is prepared using Banisteriopsis caapi liana and other plants, by utilizing advanced analytical techniques. The presence of harmine and harmaline in Andean archaeological findings has led...
Amazon Expedition Magazine.
March 1, 2024
Ordilena Ferreira de Miranda, Marcílio de Almeida, Ilza Maria de Oliveira Sousa et al.
Ayahuasca tea is a decoction prepared with leaves of P. viridis shrub popularly known as rainha, chacrona or chacruna and stems of B. caapi commonly known as mariri, ayahuasca, caapi, jagube (Callaway et al., 1999b; Miranda et al., 2020).The decoction of the plants together is the traditional way of preparing Ayahuasca. This tea has been used in traditional indigenous medicine of the Amazonian...
Cureus
March 1, 2024
Reena Sheth, Esha Parikh, Kunmilayo Olayeye et al.
4 citations
Ayahuasca is an original Amazonian brew made from the vines and leaves of Psychotroa viridis and Banisteriopsis caapi. Both P. viridis and B. caapi give this brew its unique psychedelic properties which have been revered over centuries. In recent years, ayahuasca has gained attention as a potential therapeutic tool for mental health disorders, including substance abuse and depression. The...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
February 27, 2024
Jacob S. Aday, Emily K. Bloesch, Alan K. Davis et al.
5 citations
Psychedelic drugs are currently being investigated for their potential to facilitate a variety of long-lasting psychological changes. One area that has yet to be systematically investigated in psychedelic research, however, regards changes in aesthetic experience (i.e., one’s attitudes, perceptions, and expression of art). This is surprising given the wealth of anecdotes directly noting...
February 26, 2024
Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, Laurel Hulley
It is well established that psychedelic experiences can result in potent therapeutic change when induced within a program of psychotherapy that skillfully provides preparation of mindset, an environment of accompaniment, safety, and supportiveness during the experience(s), and a subsequent process of review, reflection, and integration. The question addressed in this chapter is whether...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
February 10, 2024
Tiago Arruda Sanchez, Lucas Rego Ramos, Felipe Araujo et al.
12 citations
Ayahuasca is a beverage used in Amazonian traditional medicine and it has been part of the human experience for millennia as well as other different psychoactive plants. Although Ayahuasca has been proposed as potentially therapeutic as an anxiolytic and antidepressant, whilst no studies have been carried out so far investigating their direct effect on brain emotional processing. This study...
January 30, 2024
Patrícia Hermínio Cunha Feitosa, Melquisedeque da Rocha Viana, José Figueredo‐Silva et al.
Ayahuasca (Santo Daime or Daime tea) is the Quechua name for a tea obtained from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine ( B. caapi ) with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis ( P.viridis ) shrub. For generations, this beverage has been used in spiritual rituals by indigenous communities in the Amazon. Its promising neuropharmacological properties and its use as an alternative therapy in medical...
Revista Amazonía Viva y Gestión Sostenible
January 25, 2024
Ana Delia Lazo-Suta, Wilson Wily Sardón-quispe, O. Zevallos
El presente estudio analiza la relación entre el turismo místico y la práctica de ayahuasca en el corredor turístico de la Región Madre de Dios durante el periodo 2021-2022. La investigación se realizó con el objetivo de identificar la correlación entre estas dos variables, tomando en cuenta la experiencia de los turistas que participaron en actividades chamánicas y espirituales en la región....
Qeios
January 17, 2024
Ana María Rosso
1 citation
The purpose of this article is to study the 'sacred' plants, diverse from those exclusively medicinal but with an unquestionable ethnobotanical value because, added to their healing properties, they develop mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness analogous to the ecstatic trance. _Psychoactive_ plants have played an important role in medicine, religion, _ritual_ life, and...
2024
Renato Brocchi, Vitor Souza Lima Blotta
Este livro-reportagem traz histórias e relatos de pesquisas com ayahuasca, principalmente trabalhos que tentam ou tentaram explorar e/ou confirmar as possibilidades de uso do chá em tratamentos de depressão clínica e dependência química. O texto mescla relatos de trabalhos de pesquisadores de diferentes áreas, como a biomédica e a antropológica, para dar uma espécie de resumo jornalístico do...
Jangwa Pana
2024
Pedro Musalem Nazar
En este artículo se comparan, desde una perspectiva histórica, dos formas de medicina tradicional amazónica: por una parte, el culto del yajé y, por otra, el uso del ayahuasca en el seno del vegetalismo, y del chamanismo indígena regional que le rodea. Se usan para ello, las ideas de Peter Gow respecto del ayahuasca, en cuanto forma histórica, social y cultural. Se adopta un enfoque comparativo...
Archives of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
2024
Débora González, Jordi Cantillo, José Carlos Bouso
Globally, approximately 58 million deaths occur annually. Each death is estimated to directly affect about nine close relatives, underscoring that grief is not only a universal experience but also a potential recurrent process throughout life.