Abstract Background Ayahuasca is a classic hallucinogen with anxiolytic and antidepressive properties. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that it improves performance (eg, singing, speech). This controlled trial assessed the effects of ayahuasca on speech performance and anxiety in individuals with social anxiety disorder. Methods Seventeen volunteers with social anxiety disorder participated in...
The growing interest in research on psychedelic consumption in naturalistic contexts and their possible medical and therapeutic benefits requires assessment of the relationships between the substance and the individual who consumes it (set) and its context of use (setting). This study provides a novel measurement scale for the setting of Ayahuasca consumption, the Setting Questionnaire for the...
Ayahuasca is a natural psychoactive brew, used in traditional ceremonies in the Amazon basin. Recent research has indicated that ayahuasca is pharmacologically safe and its use may be positively associated with improvements in psychiatric symptoms. The mechanistic effects of ayahuasca are yet to be fully established. In this prospective naturalistic study, 63 self-selected participants took...
César Calvo explores the Peruvian Amazon through a shamanic consciousness in his autobiographical Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo y otros brujos de la Amazonía . Like the other authors considered here, as Calvo tells a story of personal adventure, he also relates a critical history of the violence caused by outsiders seeking enterprise in Amazonia. Calvo presents the entheogenic plant-based brew...
O objetivo desse artigo foi analisar os discursos de parceiros, participantes de rituais e turistas que visitam a Terra Indígena do Rio Gregório, no Acre, acerca das concepções de experiência espiritual e cultural em torno da bebida ayahuasca oferecida pelos Yawanawá em cerimonias urbanas e na atividade turística da aldeia Yawarani. A partir de uma pesquisa etnográfica desenvolvida entre 2016 e...
Introduction: Ayahuasca is a traditional psychoactive tea of Amazonian indigenous, used medicinal and spiritual purposes. Wide variation in the concentration of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), Harmaline (HRL), Harmine (HRM) and Tetrahydroharmine (THH) alkaloids in Ayahuasca has been reported worldwide. Objective: To evaluate the causes of variations in alkaloids concentrations of Ayahuasca...
The present study describes the protocol for the Ayahuasca Treatment Outcome Project (ATOP) with a special focus on the evaluation of addiction treatment services provided through Takiwasi Center, the first ATOP study site. The goal of the project is to assess treatment outcomes and understand the therapeutic mechanisms of an Ayahuasca-assisted, integrative treatment model for addiction...
Literature has been showing a growing interest on the research of psychedelics and their possible medical and therapeutic benefits. Due to its geographic position and other sociocultural factors, ayahuasca, a beverage of Amazonian origin, is a psychedelic that stands out in Brazil. Historically used by different indigenous peoples and, in the last century, by members of certain religious...
Promoting well-being is one of the main goals to improve health in the world. We examined the well-being and quality of life over the course of one year in a sample that participated in an Indigenous Shipibo healing program where traditional healers work in a series of ayahuasca ceremonies. We also explored the role of decentering as a mediator of psychological well-being. Participants who...
[ Abb. 1 ] zeigt die Strukturformel, die Anwendungsarten und die handelsüblichen Formen von DMT (Dimethyltryptamin). Substanz Tryptaminhaltige Pflanzen wurden über mehrere 1000 Jahre von südamerikanischen Ureinwohnern bei religiösen Ritualen und zu medizinischen Zwecken eingenommen. Ziel dabei war die Provokation visionärer Erlebnisse als Kontaktaufnahme mit einer jenseitigen Welt, z. B. um die...