News
27 March 2021
Medicinal properties of coca leaf and cannabis oil
Presentation n°1: "Medicinal and therapeutic properties of the coca leaf", Dr. Selene Manga.
Lecture n°2: "Myths and realities of medicinal cannabis", Sebastian Strikic.
24 March 2021
An online symposium will be held on April 8, 2021, to bring together all the contributors of the Mind of Plants to share their reflections and various approaches to plants. Our scientific director Matteo Politi will offer a contribution on the Ushpwasha Sanango master plant.
03 March 2021
Interview with Jacques Mabit by journalist Álvaro R. de la Rubia, January 2021. The Amazonian peoples (like all ancestral peoples) are quite pragmatic and what anthropologists describe as “magical-religious thinking” is in good part a projection of Western thought.
22 February 2021
Video presentation of the psycho-corporal workshop delivered by psychologist Guadalupe Arana as part of a drug use prevention project carried out between 2019 and 2020 by Takiwasi for the benefit of 500 adolescents from three high-schools of the city of Tarapoto.
19 February 2021
Indigenous women and medicinal plants
A report by Rebecca Lazarou, MSc in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry, about the Nuwas Forest, a space where a group of Awajún indigenous women grow medicinal plants and thus preserve their ancestral knowledge.
