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French tourist found dead at Espiritu de la Anaconda 
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High demand is causing regular "adulteration or substitution of herbal drugs," barcoding experts have discovered. Indeed, notes Malaysian researcher Muhammad Sharir Abdul Rahman, one fraudster in his country treated rubber tree wood with quinine to give it a bitter taste similar to Eurycoma longifolia—a traditional medicine for malaria, diabetes and other ailments.
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The idea that the drug companies are deceitful and, perhaps, predatorial is widespread, stretching from the halls of academia to the claims of Scientologists, from right wing populists to the Rainbow Family, from alternative health care practitioners and their allies in the New Age and health food movements, to patient advocacy groups, anti-psychiatrists, and more. So what’s going on here?
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Cuando hablamos de psicoterapia con LSD y sus aplicaciones, nos referimos a un tratamiento basado en la catálisis de la psique y en el manejo de estados modificados de conciencia. Si bien es ...
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Just north of Los Angeles on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is a special piece of ancient tribal land. Prehistoric artifacts and burials indicate that occupation occurred there as early as 6000 BC.
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Ponencia presentada por el sociologo Ricardo Díaz Mayorga en el 6º Simposio sobre Culturas y Droga de la Univesrsidad de Caldas en Manizales, Colombia.
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A documentary about what indigenous people know, and we have forgotten, about the most potent plants on earth...
's comment December 11, 2011 6:42 PM
Recently, I've read a thread @ ayahuasca forums which was started by some person claiming to have cured another person's HIV/AIDS by repeated administration of ayahuasca. The poster suggests that 1) all illness can be cured as such 2) people should stop taking their HIV/AIDS medication. To my surprise, no senior member of the forums have any problem with such claims and/or reluctant to see how such speculations with little evidence can endanger people's lives and give ayahuasca a bad name. I wonder what your take on this is.
Jerónimo M.M.'s comment,
December 12, 2011 3:38 AM
I think it is wrong, though not unfrequent, to see ayahuasca as a sort of panacea, a cure-all. It is not. Generally, ayahuasca helps most with issues that have to do with the patient´s relationship with him/herself (and the long chain of conditions that can develop out of that) In general I am suspicious of any claims of ayahuasca curing any physical ailments that don´t have an obvious psychological source. So skin conditions? stomach ulcers? depression? I can see that, but again the improvement on these conditions -if any- won´t be due to aya having a direct effect on them, but rather due to aya´s effects on the underlying psychological source. Cancer? HIV? Malaria? I am skeptical. Telling people to stop taking their HIV meds is flat out wrong.
's comment December 12, 2011 6:31 AM
Thanks for the reply. I think we are on the same page about this. What I find more problematical than some person promoting their services by such claims is that ayahuasca forums, once a virtual venue for enthusiasts and students of ayahusca, has become a vault for new age BS and conspiracy theories-- question the relevance of any of that to plant medicine and people turn a blind eye.
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Patients have reported breakthroughs after taking the medicine in tea, but Health Canada said if its use wasn’t stopped the RCMP would be called in...
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Alkaloids are a group of chemical compounds which can be recognized by carbon rings that usually contain nitrogen and by the fact that they are usually basic on...
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This article may seem a little obscure to you. Obscure because I’m taking medicine a little further into the realms of the “alternative”.
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Peru, French tourist dies from suspected overdose of Ayahuasca | Latin America Current Events & NewsPolice and public prosecutor found bottles of herb Ayahuasca.
ICEERS Foundation's comment,
November 30, 2011 4:56 AM
It is highly unlikely that overdose of Ayahuasca is the cause of death. No vomit was found and the man had blood in his mouth, which could indicate an interaction with a pharmaceutical or drug, neither is it confirmed that ayahuasca really plays a role in this tragic death. The media unfortunately presents speculation often as facts... Autopsy reports will give clarity on the cause of death...
Jerónimo M.M.'s comment,
December 5, 2011 7:15 AM
@Benjamin De Loenen.
Yes, it has been theorized that the presence of blood in the mouth could indicate a toé (datura) intoxication. As far as I know no one has died of a "pure" ayahuasca overdose. It´s emetic effects seem to rule out the possibility.
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As part of the Health Ministry’s efforts to ensure safe self-medication by the public, traditional medicines and health supplements will soon be allowed for claims.
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"Animism is the attempt to live respectfully as members of the diverse community of living persons (only some of whom are human) which we call the world or cosmos."
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During a psychedelic experience, it's common to have many new ideas. Are they always good ideas? Trippers generally think so, and many of them may well be. To people who don't trip, however, the ...
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A film by Débora Bolsanello - Canada,2000...
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Devotees of ayahuasca take the Stone Age hallucinogen for ritual, medicinal, and spiritual reasons. In the Amazon, Ted Mann finds out how far this drug can drive a man—and that’s before the author tries it himself.
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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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In James Cameron's film, Avatar, an alien tribe on the distant planet of Pandora fights the human invaders bent on mining their forest home. Instead of Pandora, think Peru.
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Radio interview with Vancouver physician Dr. Gabor Maté. Health Canada is threatening to prosecute him for successfully using the Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca to treat addiction. Listen to the full interview here.
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Great post about aya casualties in Iquitos
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