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...
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...