An exploratory study of experiences with conventional eating disorder treatment and ceremonial ayahuasca for the healing of eating disorders Marika Renelli, Jenna Fletcher, Kenneth W. Tupper, Natasha Files, Anya Loizaga‑Velder, Adele Lafrance Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-018-0619-6 Abstract Purpose : Ayahuasca is a traditional Amazonian medicine that is currently being researched for its potential in treating a variety of mental disorders. This article reports on exploratory qualitative research relating to participant experiences with ceremonial ayahuasca drinking and conventional treatment for eating disorders (EDs). It also explores the potential for ayahuasca as an adjunctive ED treatment. Methods : Thirteen [...]
Lire la suiteA Sensory Ecology of Medicinal Plant Therapy in Two Amazonian Societies GLENN H. SHEPARD JR. American Anthropologist, 2004, Vol. 106, Issue 2, pp. 252–266, ISSN 0002-7294 ABSTRACT Sensory anthropology has explored sensation as a fruitful but poorly examined domain of cross-cultural research. Curiously, sensory anthropologists have mostly ignored scientific research into sensation, even that which addresses cross-cultural variation. A comparative study in two Amazonian societies (Matsigenka, Yora [Nahua]) documented the role of the senses in medicinal plant therapy and benefited greatly from theoretical insights gleaned from sensory science. The study reveals a complex interweaving of cultural and ecological factors in medicinal plant selection, with sensation [...]
Lire la suiteQuelques problèmes posés par l’ethnopharmacologie et la recherche pharmaceutique sur les substances naturelles Some Problems Posed by Ethno‑Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Research into Natural Compounds Elisabeth Motte-Florac Journal des anthropologues, 2002, 88-89, 53-78 Association française des anthropologues Résumé L’examen des publications parues en ethnopharmacologie au cours des dernières décennies fait apparaître que les objectifs majeurs de cette recherche sont d’une part une participation à l’innovation pharmaceutique et d’autre part l’évaluation des pharmacopées traditionnelles. Ces objectifs posent implicitement plusieurs problèmes fondamentaux, complexes, interdépendants, dont l’ampleur tient à la fois à l’importance des enjeux et au fait qu’ils concernent une grande partie de la population mondiale. Jusqu’à quel point [...]
Lire la suiteL'éclosion d'une nouvelle discipline scientifique: l'enthéobotanique Vincent WATTIAUX http://liberterre.fr/entheogenes/recherches-modernes/vincentwattiaux.html « Dieu est une substance, une drogue ! » Gottfried BENN En 1967 quand le paléontologue Yves Coppens et son équipe découvrirent en Ethiopie le squelette d’une Australopithèque, ils la baptisèrent Lucie à cause d’une chanson des Beatles diffusée sans cesse à la radio. Cette rengaine, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds faisait directement allusion au LSD, la drogue hallucinogène la plus puissante jamais inventée (1). L’association, Lucie et le LSD, née du hasard ou d’un retour du refoulé collectif (?), aurait valeur d’oracle… En effet, une discipline scientifique flambant neuve, l’enthéobotanique (2) allait poser [...]
Lire la suiteThe psychedelic renaissance and the limitations of a White-dominant medical framework: A call for indigenous and ethnic minority inclusion JAMILAH R. GEORGE, TIMOTHY I. MICHAELS, JAE SEVELIUS and MONNICA T. WILLIAMS Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019 DOI: 10.1556/2054.2019.015 In recent years, the study of psychedelic science has resurfaced as scientists and therapists are again exploring its potential to treat an array of psychiatric conditions, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and addiction. The scientific progress and clinical promise of this movement owes much of its success to the history of indigenous healing practices; yet the work of indigenous people, ethnic and racial minorities, women, [...]
Lire la suiteDeconstructing Ecstasy : The Politics Of MDMA Research Charles S. Grob Addiction Research, 2000, 8, 6, 549-588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/16066350008998989 What is Ecstasy? Defined by the New Webster’s Dictionary as a state of intense overpowering emotion, a condition of exultation or mental rapture induced by beauty, music, artistic creation or the contemplation of the divine, ecstasy derives etymologically from the ancient Greek ekstasis, which means flight of the soul from the body. The anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, who explored the roots of religious experience in his book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, has described the function of this intense state of mind among aboriginal peoples. Select individuals are [...]
Lire la suiteDream over life : Psychedelic terphenyl derivative induce hallucination via cannabinoid receptor 1 F.A. Fauzi, M.S. Goh, S.A.T.T. Johari, F. Hashim, M.F.N. Hassim The International Fundamentum Sciences Symposium 2018 IOP Publishing IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 440 (2018) 012045 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/440/1/012045 Abstract. For ages, natural psychedelic resources have been used by ancient tribes for religious inspiration. In modern medicine, these compounds were prescribed to relieve severe distress and depression on cancer patients. Despite medical benefit, abuse of these compounds have become prevalent in our modern society. These compounds usually interacted withcannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) on neuron cell causing hallucination, and on other cell-types. In this [...]
Lire la suiteThe World Ayahuasca Diaspora. Reinventions and controversies Forword. Ayahuasca in the twenty-first century : having it both ways Glenn H. Shepard Jr. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, and Alex K. Gearin janvier 2017 The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back of your fridge by the vegan TV dinner. Who would have ever imagined that ayahuasca, the enigmatic jungle potion William S. Burroughs once referred to as “the secret” (Burroughs & Ginsberg, 2006 [1963]) and whose very botanical identity was a matter [...]
Lire la suiteAyahuasca : Uses, Phytochemical and Biological Activities, Edgar Antonio Estrella‑Parra et al., 2019
Ayahuasca : Uses, Phytochemical and Biological Activities Edgar Antonio Estrella‑Parra, · Julio Cesar Almanza‑Pérez, · Francisco Javier Alarcón‑Aguilar Natural Products and Bioprospecting, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13659-019-0210-5 Abstract Ayahuasca (caapi, yajé), is a psychoactive brew from the Amazon Basin region of South America traditionally considered a “master plant.” It is prepared as a decoction from Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which it is thought that it stimulates creative thinking and visual creativity. Native healers of the Orinoco and Amazon basins have used traditionally ayahuasca as a healing tool for multiple purposes, particularly to treat psychological disorders in the patients, with some beneficial effects experimentally and clinically validated. Recently, [...]
Lire la suiteAssessing the psychedelic “after-glow” in ayahuasca users: post-acute neurometabolic and functional connectivity changes are associated with enhanced mindfulness capacities. Ayahuasca post-acute effects Regular Research Article Frederic Sampedro, Mario de la Fuente Revenga, Marta Valle, Natalia Roberto, Elisabet Domínguez-Clavé, Matilde Elices, Luís Eduardo Luna, José Alexandre S. Crippa, Jaime E. C. Hallak, Draulio B. de Araujo, Pablo Friedlander, Steven A. Barker, Enrique Álvarez, Joaquim Soler, Juan C. Pascual, Amanda Feilding and Jordi Riba © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of CINP. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017, 20, 9 DOI : 10.1093/ijnp/pyx036 Significance Statement Psychedelics are intriguing drugs that induce transient but intense [...]
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