Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy review
2013
Milad Moloudizargari, Peyman Mikaili, Shahin Aghajanshakeri et al.
381 citations
Wild Syrian rue (Peganum harmala L. family Zygophyllaceae) is well-known in Iran and various parts of this plant including, its seeds, bark, and root have been used as folk medicine. Recent years of research has demonstrated different pharmacological and therapeutic effects of P. harmala and its active alkaloids, especially harmine and harmaline. Analytical studies on the chemical composition...
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
2013
Veronica Davidov
1 citation
Some months into my fieldwork, my colleague and friend carne to visit me. Anya, a fellow anthropologist, was (and is) an ethnographic filmmaker and a scholar of shainanism (although her fieldsite lay far away from mine—she studied shamanic revival in post-Soviet Buryatia). Naturally, her professional curiosity was piqued by my tales of shamanic tourism. She was quite interested in ayahuasca...
Anuário Antropológico
2013
Rosa Virgínia Melo
4 citations
O artigo discute a elaboração simbólica do efeito da ayahuasca na União do Vegetal, denominado burracheira, um transe cuja dinâmica é guiada pelo espírito do Mestre fundador da doutrina, consubstancializado na bebida. A constituição dessa entidade, no sacramento, é interpretada na leitura do mito e do rito udevista por meio de metáforas e metonímias expressivas dos processos orgânico, emotivo e...
Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra
2013
G Burillo-Putze, E López Briz, B Climent Díaz et al.
14 citations
An increase in the consumption of vegetable substances with a hallucinogenic effect has been observed. Some of these substances are associated with ancestral religious ceremonies, while many of them are legal or are partially regulated. Salvia divinorum is a powerful kappa receptor agonist, with dissociative and hallucinogenic properties, which start quickly and have a short duration. Kratom...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
October 17, 2012
Daniel I. Brierley, Colin Davidson
42 citations
Harmine is a β-carboline alkaloid and major component of ayahuasca, a traditional South American psychoactive tea with anecdotal efficacy for treatment of cocaine dependence. Harmine is an inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and interacts in vitro with several pharmacological targets which modulate dopamine (DA) neurotransmission. In vivo studies have demonstrated dopaminergic effects of...
Health Culture and Society
September 8, 2012
E J Langdon, I S Rose
9 citations
The psychoactive substance known as ayahuasca has long been identified with Amazonian shamanism and traditional medicine. Over the last two decades its use has spread outside this region to urban populations in different parts of the world. This paper examines the adoption of the ritual use of the beverage by the Guarani Indians along the southern coast of Brazil. We argue that this process is...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
April 13, 2012
Esther Jean Langdon, Isabel Santana de Rose
17 citations
This paper is a reflection on the ritual incorporation of ayahuasca, an Amazonian psychoactive ritual substance, by members of a Guarani Indian village on the Atlantic coast of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Their shamanic leaders have adapted the use of this beverage into their ritual practices and recognize it as part of their culture and tradition. This process of appropriation is a...
Microchemical Journal
April 5, 2012
Alain Gaujac, Sabrina Teixeira Martinez, Arão Araújo Gomes et al.
34 citations
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a psychoactive indole alkaloid present in beverages consumed in religious ceremonies and in neo-shamanic rituals all around the world. It is a substance banned in most countries, which makes its acquisition difficult. In Brazil, a beverage rich in DMT named ayahuasca is legally consumed in a religious context. On the other hand, DMT is a controlled drug, enforced...
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 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,...