Apuntes Universitarios
December 2, 2022
Ana María Flores Núñez, Mauro Marino‐jiménez, Henry César Rivas Sucari
2 citations
El presente ensayo pretende una aproximación hacia la comprensión de los significados del término “ayahuasca”, como parte de los fitónimos de los pueblos amazónicos. A pesar de sus atributos socioculturales, este término abarca diversas especializaciones a nivel del léxico, considerando también la cosmovisión de los pueblos nativos en la que se encuentra inscrita esta planta. La metodología que...
Research, Society and Development
November 30, 2022
Ana Karoline Pontes Da Silva, Sabrina Da Silva Barbosa, Natasha Silva
1 citation
Objetivo: Explorar a natureza das evidências que comprovam efeitos antidepressivos do chá de ayahuasca com base em estudos científicos que demonstraram resultados satisfatórios. Metodologia: Consiste em uma revisão integrativa com foco em analisar artigos publicados entre 2016 a 2022 encontrados nas bases de dados virtuais: LILACS, PubMed, SciELO e Science Direct utilizando os descritores:...
November 24, 2022
Robson Savoldi, Antônio Roazzi
preprint
Recent studies have assessed that the mystical alterations in sense of self are the best candidates for improvements in self-consciousness and the therapeutic potentials of ayahuasca’s rituals. Here, we examine the predictive relations of self-consciousness by mysticism and ego-dissolution self-reports. A cross-sectional study was drawn to investigate which self-consciousness traits – private...
Revista de Neuro-Psiquiatría
November 2, 2022
Laura Alcantarilla, Enrique García-alcarria, Celia Almonacid
3 citations
La ayahuasca pertenece al grupo de alucinógenos de origen vegetal con los que comparte su capacidad de alterar el estado de conciencia y provocar alteraciones perceptivas. Empleada tradicionalmente en forma de brebaje en ritos ceremoniales con el propósito de alcanzar experiencias de contenido espiritual o sanatorio, su uso se ha extendido a lo largo de centurias hasta nuestro actual contexto...
Biomolecules
November 2, 2022
Giordano Novak Rossi, Lorena T. L. Guerra, Glen B. Baker et al.
29 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew traditionally used in indigenous and religious rituals and ceremonies in South America for its therapeutic, psychedelic, and entheogenic effects. It is usually prepared by lengthy boiling of the leaves of the bush Psychotria viridis and the mashed stalks of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi in water. The former contains the classical psychedelic...
Planta Medica
November 1, 2022
Matteo Politi, Giorgia Tresca, Luigi Menghini et al.
19 citations
The herbal preparation ayahuasca has been an important part of ritual and healing practices, deployed to access invisible worlds in several indigenous groups in the Amazon basin and among mestizo populations of South America. The preparation is usually known to be composed of two main plants, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which produce both hallucinogenic and potent purging and...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 11, 2022
Pablo Mallaroni, Natasha L. Mason, Lilian Kloft et al.
4 citations
preprint
Abstract The knowledge that brain functional connectomes are both unique and reliable has enabled behaviourally relevant inferences at a subject level. However, it is unknown whether such “fingerprints” persist under altered states of consciousness. Ayahuasca is a potent serotonergic psychedelic which elicits a widespread dysregulation of functional connectivity. Used communally in religious...
Psychopharmacology
October 1, 2022
Daiane Momo Daneluz, Jeferson Machado Batista Sohn, Gabriela O Silveira et al.
To uncover whether psychedelic drugs attenuate fear memory responses would advance the development of better psychedelic-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Ayahuasca (AYA), a psychedelic brew containing indolamine N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and β-carbolines, facilitates fear extinction and improves neural plasticity. Upon retrieval, fear memory undergoes labilization...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 26, 2022
Owain J. Graham, Gary Rojas Saucedo, Matteo Politi
11 citations
Abstract Research on psychedelic‐assisted psychotherapy has shown that music affects therapeutic outcomes at a fundamental level. The development of such therapies calls for research on the use of music with consciousness‐altering substances, especially in contexts informed by their traditional use. Informed by ethnographic reports, our project answers this call, investigating the phenomenology...
Chemistry & Biodiversity
September 26, 2022
Albert Katchborian‐neto, Mário F. C. Santos, Diego Fernandes Vilas Boas et al.
9 citations
Abstract Ayahuasca is a psychoactive and psychedelic decoct composed mainly of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis plant species. The beverage is rich in alkaloids and it is ritualistically used by several indigenous communities of South America as a natural medicine. There are also reports in the literature indicating the prophylaxis potential of Ayahuasca alkaloids against internal...