Cadernos de Pesquisa Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas
June 30, 2010
Wagner Lins Lira
1 citation
The direction of this comunication is related to emergent spiritual phenomena on ayahuasca sessions in the Associação Espiritualista União do Vegetal, a schismatic udevista from Pernambuco state located in the city of Riacho das Almas. To this end, we will seek to understand how the participants are conected with the Superior Astral, considering the direct correlation between spirit and matter...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
June 17, 2010
Josep María Fábregas, Débora González, Sabela Fondevila et al.
228 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive beverage used for magico-religious purposes in the Amazon. Recently, Brazilian syncretic churches have helped spread the ritual use of ayahuasca abroad. This trend has raised concerns that regular use of this N,N-dimethyltryptamine-containing tea may lead to the medical and psychosocial problems typically associated with drugs of abuse. Here we assess potential drug...
Birth Defects Research Part B Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology
May 11, 2010
Carolina Dizioli Rodrigues de Oliveira, Camila Queiroz Moreira, Lílian Rose Marques de Sá et al.
44 citations
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Ayahuasca is a psychotropic plant beverage initially used by shamans throughout the Amazon region during traditional religious cult. In recent years, ayahuasca has also been used in ceremonies of a number of modern syncretic religious groups, including pregnant women. However, no documented study has been performed to evaluate the risk of developmental toxicity of...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
April 21, 2010
Yan-Hong Wang, Volodymyr Samoylenko, Babu L Tekwani et al.
73 citations
Banisteriopsis caapi, a woody vine from the Amazonian basin, is popularly known as an ingredient of a sacred drink ayahuasca, widely used throughout the Amazon as a medicinal tea for healing and spiritual exploration. The usefulness of Banisteriopsis caapi has been established for alleviating symptoms of neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease. Primary objective of this study was...
Journal of Chromatography A
December 18, 2009
Ethan H. Mcilhenny, Kelly E Pipkin, Leanna J Standish et al.
58 citations
A direct injection/liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry procedure has been developed for the simultaneous quantitation of 11 compounds potentially found in the increasingly popular Amazonian botanical medicine and religious sacrament ayahuasca. The method utilizes a deuterated internal standard for quantitation and affords rapid detection of the alkaloids by a...
Revista Internacional Interdisciplinar INTERthesis
December 11, 2009
José Eliézer Mikosz
3 citations
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Saúde Ética & Justiça
December 7, 2009
Rodrigo Grazinoli Garrido, Bruno Duarte Sabino
8 citations
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><p>A Ayahuasca, chá produzido pela decocção do caule do cipó Jagube (Banisteriopsis caapi) e das folhas da Chacrona (Psychotria viridis), é um alucinógeno ritualístico que alcançou a atualidade através de várias doutrinas religiosas. No Brasil, entre as tradições religiosas que...
Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar
December 1, 2009
Rafael G. Dos Santos
A ayahuasca é utilizada como sacramento de religiões como o Santo Daime, a Barquinha, a União do Vegetal e as suas dissidências. Nesses contextos, é geralmente preparada utilizando talos de Banisteriopsis caapi e folhas de Psychotria viridis, sendo seus principais alcalóides as beta-carbolinas harmina, tetrahidroharmina (THH) e harmalina e a triptamina dimetiltriptamina (DMT) (Callaway, 2005;...
Ponto Urbe
December 1, 2009
Marcelo S. Mercante
6 citations
Nesta apresentação pretendo fazer um relato da situação do uso da Ayahausca no Brasil como ferramenta auxiliar na superação da dependência química e o alcoolismo. Existem atualmente cinco instituições desenvolvendo este tipo de abordagem. Farei uma explanação mais detalhada do trabalho social realizado pela Ablusa (Associação Beneficente Luz de Salomão), organização liderada pelo psiquiatra...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
December 1, 2009
Anette Kjellgren, Anders Eriksson, Torsten Norlander
97 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew used by the indigenous populations of the Amazon. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain insight into the experiences of western users of ayahuasca, as well as to ascertain the experienced meaning that participants felt by their participation. Twenty-five people from Northern Europe with experiences of group sessions with ayahuasca wrote anonymous...