February 27, 2023Alhena Caicedo Fernández3 citations
In Latin America, the consumption of yagé, or ayahuasca, has spread under different forms of use in each country. In Brazil, religious use is recognized, while in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, therapeutic use has allowed the recent expansion of ritual consumption. In fact, in the latter case, it has been the close relationship between yagé and Indianness in the national...
The laws in the United States around the legality of ayahuasca are complex, detail oriented, and contradictory in many ways. There are both judicial and administrative processes for religious adherents or churches that use ayahuasca to seek exemption from Controlled Substances Act prohibitions and criminal sanctions. However, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a federal law enforcement...
February 27, 2023Clara Novaes, Marie Rose Moro, Jo Ann Cahn2 citations
This chapter is inspired by some of the questions raised in my doctoral dissertation in psychology about contemporary ritual experiences with the Amazonian drink, ayahuasca, in urban areas in Brazil as well as Europe, especially France. Here, our purpose is to problematize the relations between the contemporary world, the new modes of subjectification that these experiences induce, and the...
This chapter analyzes the environmental legislation on the use of ayahuasca in Brazil and its implications for Indigenous peoples. Although the first initiatives to regulate the use of ayahuasca date from the second half of the 1980s, the first environmental policies emerged only in the late 1990s. Thus, this work analyzes the state legislation of Acre and Rondônia that sought to regulate the...
Banisteriopsis is a taxonomically complex genus, with 57 species in the New World. The best-known species of the genus is Banisteriopsis caapi, culturally important as the principal component of Ayahuasca tea, used in religious ceremonies by the native peoples in the Northwestern Amazon, and now expanded worldwide. A study of the species and names related to a strongly supported clade which...
lives, and the anthropologist's interpretive context in which she sets these intersecting life stories.While being part of the story does present pitfalls, and while her analysis sometimes departs from the actual points her subjects are trying to make, Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant-observer strategy works.There is an intimacy to her research that, not...
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian plant brew. It is usually made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine (Spruce ex Griseb. Morton, Malpighiaceae), which contains three primary harmala alkaloids, along with the leaves of Psychotria viridis (Ruiz et Pavon, Rubiaceae) in which the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is found. DMT-harmaloid concoctions have gained popularity in recent...
RationaleThe psychedelic effects of the traditional Amazonian botanical decoction known as ayahuasca are attributed to the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) at brain serotonin 5-HT2A receptors. To make oral DMT bioavailable, ayahuasca additionally contains reversible monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) inhibitors, namely β-carboline alkaloids such as harmine. However, there is lacking biochemical...
Revista Científica do UBMJanuary 3, 2023Bruna Letícia Martins, Emanuele Da Silva Leite, Raquel Ellen Vicente Salomé et al.1 citation
A depressão é uma patologia cada vez mais inerente ao cotidiano de milhares de pessoas no mundo. Apesar de eficaz, o tratamento convencional com antidepressivos pode estar associado a diversos efeitos adversos, levantando assim a ideia da medicina natural como via alternativa terapêutica. O estudo teve como objetivo apresentar as alegações, e discuti-las, de benefícios do uso da Ayahuasca no...
ABSTRACTThe current article is a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies that assess personality traits of long-term participants in ayahuasca rituals. An electronic search was conducted in the SCOPUS, PubMed and Web of Science databases. The systematic review included six final articles. In the meta-analysis, long-term ayahuasca participants, when compared with control...