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Traditional indigenous medicine of the peruvian Amazon and its potential for psychological treatment and personal grow.

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F14%3A33150754" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/14:33150754 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Traditional indigenous medicine of the peruvian Amazon and its potential for psychological treatment and personal grow.

  • Original language description

    This contribution explains the context and basic principles of traditional medicine of the Amazon. In particular, it focuses on the hallucinogenic vine ayahuasca, traditionally used by indigenous communities in the Amazon as a tool for healing, establishing con-tact with spiritual life, and for many other purposes. In the last decades, there is rapidly growing interest in ayahuasca observed among people from other cultures (Europe and the US in particular), who come to the Amazon to undergo the ayahuasca ritual. This contribution demonstrates ayahuasca's psychotherapeutic potential, and shows the pos-sibilities of ayahuasca in structured therapeutic community for drug addicts (Takiwasi). There are potential benefits and risks for individuals undertaking ayahuasca expeditions on their own ("shamanic tourism"). The motivation of these individuals is mentioned in the text.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2014

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    A reader in ethnobotany and phytotherapy.

  • ISBN

    978-80-7509-157-4

  • Number of pages of the result

    11

  • Pages from-to

    48-58

  • Number of pages of the book

    191

  • Publisher name

    Mendelova univerzita v Brně

  • Place of publication

    Brno

  • UT code for WoS chapter