News
02 December 2021
Online Courses of the Takiwasi Center
This set of online courses is open to anyone interested in alternative and natural medicine and especially to health professionals, cross-cultural experts, educators, therapists and others linked to the work of rehabilitation, study of addictions and modified states consciousness, as well as the use of psychoactive substances. All the courses are in Spanish.
29 November 2021
From Research to Reality: Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine
The Planning Committee for the upcoming international conference From Research to Reality: Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine (Toronto, May 27-29, 2022) is pleased to announce that conference research abstract submissions will now be accepted until Dec 15 2021.
22 November 2021
The aim of this review is to shed light on the understudied purging and emetic effect of ayahuasca herbal preparation. It firstly focuses on reviewing the cultural relevance of emesis and purging in the context of Amazonian traditions. Secondly, on the basis of the main known phytochemicals described in the ayahuasca formula, a comprehensive pharmacological evaluation of their emetic and purging properties is presented.
10 November 2021
Visiting CIANAH in the native community of Yutupis
The Takiwasi Center has supported for some years the project CIANAH: Indigenous Support Center for Abandoned and Orphaned Children, promoted by José Petsa in the Awajún native community of Yutupis, located in a remote area of the Peruvian jungle.
27 October 2021
Participant Experiences on a Medicinal Plant Diet at Takiwasi Center
The medicinal plant diet is a healing process used in traditional Amazonian medicine poorly described within the scientific literature. This research paper analyzes the experience of seven participants in this therapy performed at the Takiwasi Center in Peru.
