Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar
December 1, 2011
Henrique Fernandes Antunes
4 citations
Partindo de um mapeamento bibliográfico e da análise da literatura acadêmica, principalmente a antropológica, empreendo um recorte analítico que privilegia a reconstituição histórica do uso da ayahuasca ao longo de três décadas de debate. Não se trata de discorrer sobre a história do uso da ayahuasca no Brasil, mas de que modo tal história é formulada pela literatura acadêmica. Para isso, o...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
October 15, 2011
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Marta Valle, José Carlos Bouso et al.
136 citations
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychotropic plant tea combining the 5-HT2A agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and monoamine oxidase-inhibiting β-carboline alkaloids that render DMT orally active. The tea, obtained from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, has traditionally been used for religious, ritual, and medicinal purposes by the indigenous peoples of the region. More recently, the...
Human Brain Mapping
September 16, 2011
Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Sidarta Ribeiro, Guillermo Cecchi et al.
241 citations
Abstract The hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca, a rich source of serotonergic agonists and reuptake inhibitors, has been used for ages by Amazonian populations during religious ceremonies. Among all perceptual changes induced by Ayahuasca, the most remarkable are vivid “seeings.” During such seeings, users report potent imagery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a closed‐eyes...
Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia
September 15, 2011
Carolina Dizioli Rodrigues de Oliveira, Camila Queiroz Moreira, Helenice de Souza Spinosa et al.
25 citations
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic beverage prepared by the decoction of plants native to the Amazon Basin region. The beverage has been used throughout the world by members of some syncretic religious movements. Despite the recent legalization of ayahuasca in Brazil for religious purposes, there is little pre-clinical and clinical information attesting to its safety, particularly in relation to the...
Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
August 25, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
14 citations
This article comments on the agreement signed in 2010 between a US branch of the Brazilian ayahuasca religion União do Vegetal (UDV) and the US Drug Enforcement Agency. This document settles a dispute regarding administrative issues involving ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used by this group as a religious sacrament. The government originally confiscated this substance in 1999, and the matter...
International Journal of Drug Policy
August 19, 2011
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Kevin Feeney
142 citations
BackgroundThis paper provides a summary and analysis of the regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil, from its prohibition in the mid-eighties to the recent adoption of CONAD's (Conselho Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas) 2010 Resolution, which established a set of rules, norms and ethical principles to be applied to religious and ritual uses of ayahuasca. Brazil's regulatory process is used as a...
August 15, 2011
Bruno Ramos Gomes
11 citations
Esta pesquisa visa a compreender o uso ritual da ayahuasca (chamado de Daime pelos participantes) na recuperação de pessoas em situação de rua pela Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, grupo situado em São Paulo. A ayahuasca é um chá feito da mistura de algumas plantas amazônicas, mais comumente o jagube e a chacrona, utilizado de forma ritual por populações indígenas e...
Psychopharmacology
August 12, 2011
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Eva Grasa, Marta Valle et al.
139 citations
RationaleAyahuasca is an Amazonian tea containing the natural psychedelic 5-HT(2A/2C/1A) agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It is used in ceremonial contexts for its visionary properties. The human pharmacology of ayahuasca has been well characterized following its administration in single doses.ObjectivesTo evaluate the human pharmacology of ayahuasca in repeated doses and assess the...
Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie
August 1, 2011
Lisa Fiedler, Henrik Jungaberle, Rolf Verres
4 citations
Objectives: The Santo Daime Church is a religious community originally founded in Brazil which has increasingly attracted followers in Europe and worldwide. An important element of the religious ceremonies is the ingestion of a psychoactive substance known as ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive or visionary-state-inducing concoction of plants, which contains, amongst other substances,...
Oxford University Press eBooks
July 28, 2011
Benny Shanon
3 citations
Abstract This chapter examines the musical facets of the special state of mind induced by ayahuasca, a powerful Amazonian psychoactive brew especially famous for the vivid hallucinations that it induces. The chapter is divided into three parts. The first presents background information concerning ayahuasca and its scientific study, and discusses the use of music in ayahuasca rituals. The second...