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November 5, 2011 4:49 AM
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CACERÍA DE `BRUJOS´ EN LA SELVA PERUANA

CACERÍA DE `BRUJOS´ EN LA SELVA PERUANA | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

En lo que va de año 14 'brujos´ y curanderos indígenas han sido asesinados en la Amazonía peruana...

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November 2, 2011 7:26 PM
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"Deadly Monopolies": Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself

"Deadly Monopolies": Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life...

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November 2, 2011 7:23 PM
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Scientists pin down active chemicals in Chinese herbs - SciDev.Net

Scientists pin down active chemicals in Chinese herbs - SciDev.Net | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
Researchers have created a database of the chemicals in 300 Chinese herbs used in traditional medicine.
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November 2, 2011 7:21 PM
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Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in the management of female infertility- PubMed - NCBI

Our review suggests that management of female infertility with Chinese Herbal Medicine can improve pregnancy rates 2-fold within a 4 month period compared with Western Medical fertility drug therapy or IVF. Assessment of the quality of the menstrual cycle, integral to TCM diagnosis, appears to be fundamental to successful treatment of female infertility.

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October 31, 2011 11:42 AM
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Tonight, Zadok Gallery Presents Marshall Arisman 'Ayahuasca Series'

Tonight, Zadok Gallery Presents Marshall Arisman 'Ayahuasca Series' | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Zadok Gallery will present Marshall Arisman's opening exhibition entitled "The Ayahuasca Series," a group of paintings and large format drawings.

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October 30, 2011 10:49 AM
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Aplicaciones del uso de ayahuasca en la psicoterapia occidental | Onirogénia

Aplicaciones del uso de ayahuasca en la psicoterapia occidental | Onirogénia | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
En esta conferencia presento tres trabajos de investigación sobre el uso de ayahuasca en psicoterapia.
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October 29, 2011 6:28 PM
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Camaguey: Laboratory of Natural and Traditional Medicine Contributes to Replace Imports

Camaguey: Laboratory of Natural and Traditional Medicine Contributes to Replace Imports | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
The Laboratory of Natural and Traditional Medicine in the municipality of Esmeralda, Camagüey, contributes to replace imports and maintain animals in good health...
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October 29, 2011 6:17 PM
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Basqueresearch.com: News - Researchers at the University of Navarra study potential of medicinal plants for treating Alzheimer

Basqueresearch.com: News - Researchers at the University of Navarra study potential of medicinal plants for treating Alzheimer | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Researchers at the University of Navarra, Maribel Calvoand Rita Yolanda Cavero, are working in the search for new, natural-origin compounds obtained from medicinal plants used traditionally, such as melissa, rosemary and lavender, that can be employed as new forms of treatment against Alzheimer

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October 29, 2011 5:48 PM
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El Yagé – Breve descripción etnomédica

Para un grupo de médicos en Bogotá fue escrita esta breve descripción. De manera sintética se enumeran las características culturales, étnicas, médicas, químicas, sicológicas etc., de la aplicación de este recurso de la Medicina Tradicional Indígena del Putumayo, Colombia.

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October 29, 2011 3:04 PM
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Gaspar Noé y ayahuasca | Cultura&Entretención | La Tercera Edición Impresa

Gaspar Noé y ayahuasca | Cultura&Entretención | La Tercera Edición Impresa | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Hace cerca de veinte años, un joven Gaspar Noé, antes de convertirse en el cineasta más controversial de Europa, estaba obsesionado con traducir en imágenes los efectos de este tipo de alucinógenos, y por ello viajó con amigos a Pucallpa, en Perú. No se trataba de un trip de veraneantes, sino que de una experiencia que le iba a permitir hacer la película que soñaba: la visión objetiva de un tipo que se droga y lo que ve cuando se droga.

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October 24, 2011 1:42 PM
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Amazonia, masato o petroleo

El masato es la bebida que elaboran los indígenas amazónicos con yuca hervida. Lo beben todas las etnias y a todas horas, a las reuniones, celebraciones y por agasajar los visitantes. El masato es la bebida que da identidad a la cultura indígena.
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October 23, 2011 8:04 AM
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Malaysia: Traditional medicine practitioners must register under new Act | Daily Express Newspaper Online, Sabah, Malaysia.

Kota Kinabalu: The Bill on Traditional and Complementary Medicine which will be tabled in Parliament next year will require all traditional and complementary medicine practitioners to register with the Traditional and Complementary Medicine...
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October 22, 2011 10:39 AM
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CHARLATANS, SEEKERS, AND SHAMANS: THE AYAHUASCA BOOM IN WESTERN PERUVIAN AMAZONIA By Joshua E. Homan

Masters thesis here

http://www.memeticshift.com/down/Homan%20-%20Thesis.pdf?mid=50

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November 2, 2011 7:29 PM
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BERNAMA - Jamu, An Approved Prescription In 14 Indonesian Hospitals

Indonesia´s traditional herbal medicine, jamu, is now an approved prescription in 14 hospitals and 30 community health centers in Central Java

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November 2, 2011 7:24 PM
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Yage - The Future Sound Of London

Track 8. 'Yage'. As on the album 'Teachings From The Electronic Brain (The Best Of FSOL)'. [Originally from the album 'Dead Cities'] Written by Brian Dougans...
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November 2, 2011 7:22 PM
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Health News - Ancient Chinese herbal remedy now being tested as prostate cancer treatment drug

Ancient Chinese herbal remedy now being tested as prostate cancer treatment drug...
Cecilia Urbina's curator insight, January 18, 2014 1:38 AM

 Ancient Chinese herbal remedy about eating cork tree bark is being tested in a new clinic trial at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio to treat cancer patients. The only concerns are regarding the side effects that the consumption of cork tree bark might have on patients.

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November 2, 2011 7:15 PM
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Traditional medicine in the Philippines

Traditional medicine in the Philippines | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care and the Department of Health...

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October 30, 2011 11:03 AM
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Sobre la famosa “lista de plantas prohibidas” | Onirogénia

Sobre la famosa “lista de plantas prohibidas” | Onirogénia | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

¿Las plantas de ayahuasca son legales en España?

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October 29, 2011 6:33 PM
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Fox News: A Spiritual Tourist in Peru

Fox News: A Spiritual Tourist in Peru | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
Faced with constant material worries in their real lives, more and more travelers are seeking a vacation that gives them a spiritual boost and escape—making pilgrimages to holy Incan sites and spending time with shamans in the magical mountains of...
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October 29, 2011 6:21 PM
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19th and 20th century psychiatry: 22 rare photos Pictures - CBS News

19th and 20th century psychiatry: 22 rare photos Pictures - CBS News | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Yikes

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October 29, 2011 6:16 PM
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Did Alternative Medicine Extend or Abbreviate Steve Jobs's Life?: Scientific American

Did Alternative Medicine Extend or Abbreviate Steve Jobs's Life?: Scientific American | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
The biomedical evidence for alternative or complementary treatments for cancer, beyond acupuncture, remains thin, although it probably didn't harm Jobs...
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October 29, 2011 5:47 PM
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El Malpensante.com - ¿Una ética del yagé?

El Malpensante.com - ¿Una ética del yagé? | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it
El yagé se ha vuelto noticia y esto ha generado un cambio radical en su uso y en su consumo. Nuestro colaborador analiza las implicaciones éticas del asunto.
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October 26, 2011 9:45 AM
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The Nature of Things with David Suzuki - Episode - Jungle Prescription

The Nature of Things with David Suzuki - Episode - Jungle Prescription | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

Our ayahuasca documentary, 10 years in making, is 2 weeks from broadcast. Nov 10th in Canada´s most respected science show.

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October 24, 2011 8:13 AM
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Who is authorized to be a Shaman in Colombia? Reflections after Deaths in a Hybrid Ayahuasca Ceremony

Who is authorized to be a Shaman in Colombia? Reflections after Deaths in a Hybrid Ayahuasca Ceremony | Ayahuasca News | Scoop.it

"This branch is difficult to classify, as it combined biblical preach, spiritualistic practices, environmental speech and Ayahuasca."

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October 22, 2011 10:40 AM
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Curandero Peruano Amazonico Hernan Romas Lomas

"Entrevista aHernan Romas Lomas Curandero Peruano Amazonico que nos cuenta lo que significar llegar a ser curandero" Merece la pena escucharla en su totalidad

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