Debates em Psiquiatria
April 29, 2016
Thaísa Silva Gios, Maria Carolina Pedalino Pinheiro, Elie Leal de Barros Calfat
1 citation
Alucinógenos são agentes químicos que induzem alterações na percepção, no pensamento e nas emoções. Entre os alucinógenos naturais há a ayahuasca, originalmente utilizada por tribos indígenas da Amazônia, preparada com a mistura de duas plantas: Banisteriopsis caapi, que contém β-carbolinas, um inibidor da monoamina oxidase (MAO), e Psychotria viridis, rica em N,N-dimetiltriptamina (DMT), que...
April 8, 2016
Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi Da Silva Sá, Christian Frenopoulo, Matthew Meyer
1 citation
This chapter presents the Brazilian Federal Narcotics Board, concerning the brew called ayahuasca, known in Brazil by the names 'Daime', 'Santo Daime' or 'Vegetal'. It evaluates a decade of non-policing government monitoring of ayahuasca use, in order to promote, from this pioneer experience, the adoption or modification of just public policies that are directed to the question of drugs,...
April 8, 2016
Sérgio Brissac, Lyzette Goes Telles Brissac
4 citations
The author focuses on the anthropological observation of Unio do Vegetal (UDV), which he started 15 years ago and continues up to the present, as well as on field research that he carried out in 1998 in the UDV unit called Nucleus Alto das Cordilheiras, in Campinas. It was the basis of author's Master's thesis in social anthropology the city of Campinas is situated in the State of Sao Paulo,...
April 8, 2016
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward Macrae
78 citations
Foreword by Professor Andrew Dawson, Lancaster University Beatriz Labate, Edward MacRae and Sandra Goulart (Casper Libero College, Brazil) - Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions in perspective 1. Mariana C. Pantoja (Federal University of Acre, Brazil) and Osmildo da Silva Conceicao (Kuntanawa tribal leader) - The use of ayahuasca among rubber tappers of the Alto Jurua 2. Arneide Cemin (Federal...
Social & Cultural Geography
March 31, 2016
Jonathan Thomas Lowell, Paul C. Adams
16 citations
This paper examines the Santo Daime religion, the Amazonian town of Céu do Mapiá which is one of its primary spiritual centres, and Ayahuasca, a key sacrament of the Santo Daime religion. The small village in the Amazon demonstrates the active outreach by a place which functions as a nexus of international and intercontinental flows of substances, bodies and meanings. The power of place is...
European Neuropsychopharmacology
March 26, 2016
Marta Valle, Ana Maqueda, Mireia Rabella et al.
175 citations
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychotropic plant tea typically obtained from two plants, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis. It contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A and sigma-1 agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) plus β-carboline alkaloids with monoamine-oxidase (MAO)-inhibiting properties. Although the psychoactive effects of ayahuasca have commonly been attributed solely to agonism at the...
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
March 18, 2016
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Flávia de Lima Osório, José Alexandre S. Crippa et al.
306 citations
To date, pharmacological treatments for mood and anxiety disorders and for drug dependence show limited efficacy, leaving a large number of patients suffering severe and persistent symptoms. Preliminary studies in animals and humans suggest that ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) may have antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive properties. Thus, we conducted a...
Brain Research Bulletin
March 11, 2016
Elisabet Domínguez‐clavé, Joaquim Soler, Matilde Elices et al.
220 citations
Ayahuasca is the Quechua name for a tea obtained from the vine Banisteriopsis caapi, and used for ritual purposes by the indigenous populations of the Amazon. The use of a variation of the tea that combines B. caapi with the leaves of the shrub Psychotria viridis has experienced unprecedented expansion worldwide for its psychotropic properties. This preparation contains the psychedelic 5-HT2A...
Frontiers in Pharmacology
March 2, 2016
Ede Frecska, Petra Bokor, Michael Winkelman
237 citations
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychoactive brew of two main components. Its active agents are β-carboline and tryptamine derivatives. As a sacrament, ayahuasca is still a central element of many healing ceremonies in the Amazon Basin and its ritual consumption has become common among the mestizo populations of South America. Ayahuasca use amongst the indigenous people of the Amazon is a form of...
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
March 1, 2016
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Flávia de Lima Osório, José Alexandre S. Crippa et al.
158 citations
Considering the need for new drugs that produce fewer adverse effects and are more effective in reducing anxiety and depression symptomatology, the described effects of ayahuasca and its alkaloids should be further investigated.