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Quiénes, cuándo y cómo toman en Chile esta planta amazónica que causa vómitos, alucinaciones y viajes iniciáticos.

Like the rest of the world, the fashion community has turned on to ayahuasca, a concoction of trendiness significant enough to warrant a cameo in Noah Baumbach’s latest ode to lost edges, While We’re Young. (In it, the hip young couple played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried drag Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts to an ayahuasca ceremony.) In its native South America, The New York Times reported recently, the drug is even becoming mainstream enough that it’s been administered to prisoners for rehabilitation purposes.

El autor, Javier Darío Restrepo, reconocido y prestigioso periodista, da cuenta en el libro de las experiencias de sanación que experimentaron distintas personas de procedencias y oficios muy distintos pero que tienen en común ser ajenos a la moda de la medicina alternativa, y a los que, sin embargo, la experiencia con el yagé les ha aportado la curación de sus dolencias. Un médico, un cirujano, una profesora de colegio, una monja, un poeta, un pensionado, entre otros personajes, encontraron en esta planta sagrada del Amazonas la cura para sus graves dolencias con la participación de sus médicos: depresión, adicción a las drogas, alcoholismo, lupus, cáncer, soriasis, etc.

Hoy sabemos que tienen familia y parientes y que reconocen su cercanía. Se comportan de manera totalmente distinta si a su lado hay parientes o hay extraños.

A psychedelic drink used for centuries in healing ceremonies is now attracting the attention of biomedical scientists as a possible treatment for depression. Researchers from Brazil last month published results from the first clinical test of a potential therapeutic benefit for ayahuasca, a South American plant-based brew1. Although the study included just six volunteers and no placebo group, the scientists say that the drink began to reduce depression in patients within hours, and the effect was still present after three weeks. They are now conducting larger studies that they hope will shore up their findings.

New York Times

The purpose of this blog is to document the story of Semillas Ancestrales from our first arrival in Colombia. We hope to give an insight, not only into the documentary-making process, but also into our perceptions of the daily reality of life as we found it in the various places we visited.

Ryan LeCompte’s study with MAPS will be the first of its kind, as it seeks to begin the work to develop ayahuasca into a legal prescription for PTSD (to be used alongside therapy).

Lupita Nyong'o gives Flower a voice in this film presented by Conservation International.

The provision of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew used in the Amazon basin for centuries, to inmates on short furloughs reflects a quest to ease pressure on Brazil’s prison system.