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"Most people who are regular consumers of psychoactive drugs are not drug addicts, nor will they ever become addicts."
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Amazing words - jero
These Colombians stress the importance of taking your time to do something right, and their incredible artwork backs up that point
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Besides detailed information about ayahuasca, the visionary, healing vine, this website is an overview of the global use of this sacred medicine from the Amazon. Includes good photos of related plants.
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The Chairman, Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Comrade Ayodele Adewale, has stressed the need for Nigerians to embrace traditional medicine because of its efficacy.
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Did you know that the federal government alone has spent more than $208 billion on the drug war since 2004? Read about it in the Economics section of DrugWarFacts.org. DrugWarFacts.org, a publication of Common Sense for Drug Policy (CSDP), is an in-depth compilation of key facts, stats and quotes on the full range of drug policy issues, excerpted from expert publications on the subjects. The Chronicle is running a series of info items from DrugWarFacts.org, and we encourage you to check it out.
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Another government in Africa seeking to integrate Traditional Medicine with the national health service - jero
"Luanda – The Angolan government will create this year in the country’s 18 provinces centres to assist therapists, so as to establish an institute aimed to support the traditional medicines."
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Irene Caselli reports on how a clinic in Ecuador is using traditional indigenous treatments alongside modern medicine.
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Malaria remains one of the most deadly diseases in the world. It kills more than one million people every year - most of them in Africa. In Kenya scientists are at the forefront in searching for cheaper, locally available solutions. Anne Waithera reports from the Rift Valley in Kenya, where tarditional medicine is meeting modern science.
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The Sacred Science is a documentary film that follows 8 people with serious illnesses as they journey into the Amazon Rainforest to work with indigenous shamans for 30 days.
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Within Peru's northern coastal and highland areas exists a tradition of applied indigenous wisdom that has thrived for millennia, and while still active, it too faces the inescapable pressures of transformation. Known as curanderismo, this shamanic tradition of folk medicine utilizes the knowledge acquired through its great past to provide individual healing to community members. For 500 years it has provided the sole efficient medicine to the Peruvian people. Only recently has "Western" medicine arrived at the doorstep of most, often without the cultural understanding and sensitivity needed to provide more than cursory care. Curanderismo further utilizes complex techniques to maintain harmony and balance between the human and natural worlds. Reaching forth from the very dawn of Andean civilization, it is a preeminently practical tradition, emphasizing our ability to form and sustain balanced relationships among ourselves and the environment as well as providing time-honored methods for re-establishing these desired conditions when they are absent. Essentially holistic, the methodology of curing entails the ritual blending of knowledge, cosmology, herbal practice, and visionary experience in its therapy. The final result is a transformative power which it communicates through its innate artistry and the dramatic presence of the sacred.
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After 50 years of the current enforcement-led international drug control system, the war on drugs is coming under unparalleled scrutiny. Its goal was to create a "drug-free world". Instead, despite more than a trillion dollars spent fighting the war, according to the UNODC, illegal drugs are used by an estimated 270 million people and organised crime profits from a trade with an estimated turnover of over $330 billion a year – the world’s largest illegal commodity market.
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This is an independent documentary made during 3 expeditions at the Xingu River, Altamira, Brasília and São Paulo. It presents very serious facts about Belo Monte dam, the biggest and most polemical construction going on in Brazil today. The ediitting and finalization of the movie were crowdfunded by 3.429 people in the Catarse website. Click here to see how was it: http://catarse.me/pt/projects/459-belo-monte-anuncio-de-uma-guerra
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For the first time, a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health has mapped the normal microbial make-up of healthy humans, producing numerous insights and even a few surprises. Researchers found, for example, that nearly everyone routinely carries pathogens, microorganisms known to cause illnesses. In healthy individuals, however, pathogens cause no disease; they simply coexist with their host and the rest of the human microbiome, the collection of all microorganisms living in the human body. Researchers must now figure out why some pathogens turn deadly and under what conditions, likely revising current concepts of how microorganisms cause disease.
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Sitaram Das interviews Author, Anthropologist, and Healer Steve Beyer. They talk about the difference between shamans and sorcerers, magical pathogens, the ubiquitious nature of spirits, petulance and humility, talking sticks, and restorative justice. Listen to learn why the spirits like songs and tobacco.
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Fascinating contrast in approaching an illness ‘Doctors are essentially trained to prescribe medicine,’ says Chris. ‘Patients often fall outside diagnostic criteria so treating something we’re not sure about with a toxic drug isn’t very sensible. Julie’s was not a very real diagnosis – she probably had some nasty drug reactions [from the Topiramate]. Alex was shocked by the remarkable results of his brother's treatment ‘The very labelling of someone as having a serious disease can make them ill. So to say to Julie “You don’t have a terrible condition” made all the difference.’
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In Swaziland, a Traditional Health Clinic built by the government failed in less tha a year... but down the street from its ruins hospital nurses are attending people using techniques of traditional healers.
"The clinic would turn traditional herbs into pill form. Nurses would be trained in sterilisation procedures. Nhlavana Maseko, the head of the Traditional Healer Organisation, was put in charge. “A huge fraction of our patients come to consult us even after receiving medical attention from modern-day clinics,” its head nurse, Busisiwe Makhabane, told the Swazi Observer. But, since February 2011, Emvembili has been closed. Broken windows let dust settle on the chairs. Makhabane, who originally agreed to an interview, dropped our calls."
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The same situation in Mozambique, qhere the goverment is seeking to formalize traditional medicine as an adjunct to their national healthcare system -Jero
"The statisticians indicate that 70% of Mozambicans live in regions of the country deemed “rural”, and that there exists only 365 Medical Doctors in a country of almost 23 million people. This combined with a government that allocates 7.5% of its annual budget to health care, and a mostly uneducated population equals disaster when it comes to medical coverage. The reality is that most people live far away from any type of medical center and many medications and treatments are too expensive for many people to afford... In this environment, the obvious choice for many rural poor is to seek healing from the local traditional medical doctor or “curandeiro”."
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Same process seems to be happening everywhere. Traditional healers organize in trans-tribal unions, talk of starting a traditional medicine unviersity... -jero
"The ceremony took place at the Kenema playing field. Members of the different traditional groups were introduced alongside their executives including international delegates from Nigeria, and Niger."
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Fringe stalwart TJ Dawe (Lucky 9, The Slipknot, Labrador, Dishpig) returns with a story about a retreat led by Dr. Gabor Mate, involving the Peruvian Shamanic medicine ayahuasca. And the exhumation of a big secret. “A flawless performer” Charleston City Paper “TJ Dawe knows how to tell a story better than just about anyone else” – Now Magazine.
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La ayahuasca es usada por Santo Daime, un culto que sincretiza cristianismo y creencias aborígenes. La denuncia surge a partir del suicidio de un joven creyente.
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"...To further elucidate the mental and physical health of ayahuasca users, we conducted a literature search in the international medical PubMed database. Inclusion criteria were evaluation of any related effect of ayahuasca use that occurred after the resolution of acute effects of the brew. Fifteen publications were related to emotional, cognitive, and physical health of ayahuasca users. The accumulated data suggest that ayahuasca use is safe and may even be, under certain conditions, beneficial. However, methodological bias of the reviewed studies might have contributed to the preponderance of beneficial effects and to the few adverse effects reported. The data up to now do not appear to allow for definitive conclusions to be drawn on the effects of ayahuasca use on mental and physical health, but some studies point in the direction of beneficial effects. Additional studies are suggested to provide further clarification."
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A documentary about Western culture's influence on shamanistic practices concerning ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon.
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By Fabiano Selva, de Pôrto Veado, Roraima, Brazil
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