South African Journal of Botany
March 1, 2018
Lungelo Given Buthelezi, Sydney Mavengahama, Nontuthuko Rosemary Ntuli
1 citation
both pollen and fermented starch have been utilized in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Central America, Australia, and central Africa as male aphrodisiacs and in intoxicating beverages at ceremonial events.In Limpopo, South Africa, our fieldwork revealed that widespread damage to Encephalartos populations is caused by extraction for traditional ritual purposes as well as for recreational drug use.In...
South African Journal of Botany
March 1, 2018
Samson B. M. Chimphango, John B. O. Ogola, Sipho Thulane Maseko et al.
5 citations
both pollen and fermented starch have been utilized in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Central America, Australia, and central Africa as male aphrodisiacs and in intoxicating beverages at ceremonial events.In Limpopo, South Africa, our fieldwork revealed that widespread damage to Encephalartos populations is caused by extraction for traditional ritual purposes as well as for recreational drug use.In...
South African Journal of Botany
March 1, 2018
Monique Botha, Michael Erik Grevé
1 citation
both pollen and fermented starch have been utilized in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Central America, Australia, and central Africa as male aphrodisiacs and in intoxicating beverages at ceremonial events.In Limpopo, South Africa, our fieldwork revealed that widespread damage to Encephalartos populations is caused by extraction for traditional ritual purposes as well as for recreational drug use.In...
The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
March 1, 2018
M R Lee, E Dukan, I Milne
29 citations
The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is widely distributed throughout continental Europe and the UK. Its common name suggests that it had been used to kill flies, until superseded by arsenic. The bioactive compounds occurring in the mushroom remained a mystery for long periods of time, but eventually four hallucinogens were isolated from the fungus: muscarine, muscimol, muscazone and...
February 15, 2018
Ilana Seltzer Goldstein, Beatriz Caiuby Labate
1 citation
Recently, installations of the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, with different degrees of Indian participation, have been presented in art museums in Bilbao, São Paulo, and Vienna. The beautiful tissue installations achieved part of their force from their references to ayahuasca healing by the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) people of the State of Acre in Brazil. It is interesting to note the convergence...
February 15, 2018
Clancy Cavnar
1 citation
Ayahuasca has been found in some research to have positive long-term effects on mental states and a particularly strong positive effect on perceptions of identity. The research in this chapter examines these findings in relationship to the experience of gay people, who are often taught by their culture and religion that their lifestyles, values, and sexual orientation are unacceptable. A...
February 15, 2018
Alex K. Gearin, Beatriz Caiuby Labate
4 citations
This chapter undertakes an unorthodox approach and investigate dietary and behavioural restrictions in the practice of Western ayahuasca drinking in comparison to indigenous Amazonian practices of dieting often believed to be the source of the "Western ayahuasca dieta." Combining readings of Amazonian ethnography with the authors' ethnographic research in neoshamanic contexts of ayahuasca...
February 15, 2018
Silvia Mesturini Cappo
2 citations
The recognition of Ayahuasca as a being, capable of agency and intention, taking action both as a healing and teaching spirit and as an ethical entity making a stand in the contemporary struggle for ecological survival and for indigenous culture valorisation is the central interrogation of this paper. What makes Ayahuasca an entity? Who is she an entity for? The importance of these questions is...
February 15, 2018
Silvia Mesturini
26 citations
During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic tourism industries and recreational drug milieus grounded in the consumption of the...
Scientia Fungorum
February 1, 2018
Faustino Hernandez Santiago, Magdalena Martínez Reyes, Jesús Pérez Moreno et al.
8 citations
Antecedentes: En México, antes de la llegada de los españoles en el siglo XVI, los hongos tenían una importancia ceremonial y sagrada de gran relevancia, lo cual está sustentado en evidencias lingüísticas y arqueológicas, y documentado en códices prehispánicos y escritos coloniales.Objetivos: Describir una historia fascinante y, paradójicamente poco conocida, vinculada a la concepción de la...