Ceremonies of Ayahuasca

Healing Properties

It is a substance useful in certain therapeutic and self-knowledge , approaches and it is being studied for some time by doctors , pharmacists , psychologists and psychiatrists around the world as a tool for various problems , with special relevance in helping individuals to break the processes and harmful habits for themselves and for others. In fact , its use in detoxification and addiction is a fact in countries like Brazil and Peru configured as one of the most cutting-edge treatments for drug dependence . [Citation needed]
Ayahuasca can be an effective therapy in the field of psychiatry and psychology in the treatment of anxiety and depression.1 and personality problems and schizophrenia. Its complex pharmacology, closely related to the synergy between various alkaloids , while the low toxicity demonstrated by the diverse and numerous scientific studies and to be developed , is one of the most important aspects of this herbal preparation .


Ceremonies 

Amazon in the ceremony participants sit on the floor in a semicircle , while the shaman begins exhaling cigarette smoke , called " mapacho " around people to ward off negative energies.
In the center of the semicircle has ayahuasca shaman and materials needed for the ceremony , which can last up to 7 hours , during which the guide sings their songs , called " Icaros " . Between 20 and 45 minutes after ingestion of the beverage participants begin to notice her , known as " ayahuasca mareación " effects , some may experience vomiting , diarrhea , sweating or other effects.
The challenge of each person as shamans , is to understand the real meaning of the visions produced by the ayahuasca and use this learning in their daily lives

In the world

The fame of ayahuasca in the world is due in part to the book The Yage Letters (Letters of ayahuasca ) , (1963 ) , written in collaboration between American writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg , which mostly contains letters Burroughs written in 1953 for " his second journey through Latin lands in search of Yage or Ayahuasca ," 2 which would lead to a brief stay in the Peruvian Amazon , where he experimented with the ayahuasca.3 the book ends with the story written by Ginsberg in 1960 correspondence, while in Peru , detailing his own experiments with ayahuasca.

Institutions in the world today are mixed teams of native shamans and doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists who work together ayahuasca therapies . Modern medicine researchers like Dr. Rick Strassman MD have thoroughly studied the form and mechanisms of action of the active alkaloids of ayahuasca and its connections with the worldview and religion of the native peoples of this tradition and other world cultures such as Egyptian , its imperative for the link with the physiological experience and spiritual experience that exists in states causes ayahuasca visionary and active alkaloid ( DMT). In your case is the first serious and official research done in the U.S. with a scientific methodology .
Ayahuasca is , likewise , the sacrament of several Brazilian churches such as Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal , which have been expanded by the U.S. and Europe, with proper use and backed by the experience and research of the Brazilian government and american . These religious institutions, syncretic and inclusive cut Amazon in the complex cultural legacy purely converging Amazon and Christian , have confirmed the growing recognition of its activity and religious practice. Such legal recognition is based on the exercise of religious freedom and expression of both traditional Amazonian culture .
Ayahuasca has also been declared cultural heritage of Peru and Brazil to offer greater protection to drink, to the rites and culture associated with your use.6 The use of ayahuasca in countries like Peru , Brazil, Ecuador and the United States of America is legally protected by the recognition of their traditional and religious uses in the framework itself serving the legal recognition of the rights of indigenous tribal groups and religious institutions as the Union do Vegetal or Santo Daime .

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Ayahuasca

The basic component of Ayahuasca is a decoction Caapi Banisteriopsis liana , but other plants which also contain this element , such as Colaoriopsis Caapi or Peganum harmala ( Syrian rue ) , so it can be used instead of the liana , which will provide the various ayahuascas a large variability in composition and pharmacological profile. In other cases, such as in the Jivaro natemano rituals , the vine Banisteriopsis caapi is the only component of the decoction .

Preparation of Ayahuasca in Iquitos, Peru

The liana Banisteriopsis caapi contains some known as harmala alkaloids substances. The main ones are harmine ( an active principle which before its official classification in 1939 was called banisterín , yageína ) , and at low concentrations and also presents harmalina harmalol . This group of alkaloids is not unique Banisteriopsis species , is also present in the seeds of Peganum harmala , or Syrian rue .

One of the most common mixture is prepared caapi with Psychotria viridis Banisteriosis , Chacruna one of their native names . You can also find mixed with Diplopterys cabrerana or chacopranga , or Mimosa hostilis . These plants contribute to the preparation , if any , dimethyltryptamine or DMT molecule. If we look at the very low concentration of DMT that these plants provide the resulting decoction compared with standard levels tested for oral intake of psychoactive DMT , pharmacological complexity of this decoction is noticed and understood the reason for their low toxicity . Something similar happens with monoamine oxidase inhibitors ( MAOIs) ingested that psiquiatía used as antidepressants , require very long use so they can be effective. However , the variability in the composition of the various ayahuascas will be great being in some variant of the snuff or other plants. The result is a pharmacologically complex and used for low toxicity and / or medical and religious rituals in traditional medicine native peoples of the Amazonian brew.

Uses

Ayahuasca is an ancient origin among the cultures of the Amazon of Venezuela, Colombia , Peru , Bolivia , Ecuador and Brazil.
The Shuar ethnic group in the south and the border of Ecuador and Peru ( Jivaro as called by the Spaniards ) , make use of ayahuasca by the name of " Natem " by " Uwishin " (name Shuar shaman ) . The Shipibo of Peru Conibo use in their ceremonies and healing rituals since ancient times this preparation. Just as highlight Kamsá Inga and communities in the Colombian Amazon for its significant use of Yagé for ethnomedicinal practice. Shamans or shipibos physicians ( Junes , Onayas , murayas and Mutsarawas by rank ) heirs of ancestral knowledge of the different mixtures , preparations and uses of ayahuasca use these additions for different reasons , identifying plants that add according to the effect or purpose sought , ritual, ceremonial or healing.
The preparation varies by indigenous groups , populations and medical shamans of each population , keeping his secret and each having different recipes with different aggregates.

Ayahuasca is therefore the quintessential potion Amazonian world and link between different cultures that have in common the individual or group beverage consumption for various purposes , ranging from the curative to the character that has a spiritual or personal revelation .

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