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Adopt an Ayahuasca
Support this project for the protection and preservation of Ayahuasca and Amazonian teacher plants.
At Takiwasi we have been planting Ayahuasca and other master plants for more than 25 years in our Botanical Reserve, a protected area of 54 hectares located inside the Cordillera Escalera conservation area, on the outskirts of the city of Tarapoto.
Join our mission and support our conservation actions by adopting an Ayahuasca vine or another teacher plant.
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Therapeutic potential of spirituality
and mystical experiences in the treatment of substance use disorders
This article recently published aims to give an overview on the role of spirituality, faith and mystical experiences in the treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) by presenting the case of the therapeutic community Takiwasi, where psychoactive plants are used, and by considering other Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies that are derived from or have connection with religious or spiritual practices.
Authors: Alberto Dubbini, Jacques Mabit, and Matteo Politi. Published in Revista Cultura y Droga, 25 (29), pp. 41-62, January-June 2020.
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Call for Proposals - Frontiers in Pharmacology
A new research topic has been launched by the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology: "Beyond the Pharmacology of Psychoactive Plant Medicines and Drugs: Pros and Cons of the Role of Rituals and Set and Setting".
Contributions are invited from a broad range of disciplines and fields of research including, but not limited to, medical anthropology, ethnopharmacology and ethnomedicine, psychopharmacology, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy, as well as from conventional or complementary therapists.
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Access and Benefit Sharing Under the Nagoya Protocol - Quo Vadis? Six Latin American Case Studies Assessing Opportunities and Risk
Using a case study approach, in this analysis we aim at understanding the specific opportunities and challenges for implementing international collaborations regarding Access and Benefit Sharing in six Latin American countries—Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, México, Panama, and Peru. Based on that analysis, we provide recommendations for the path ahead regarding international collaborations under ABS agreements in ethnopharmacological research.
Authors: Michael Heinrich, Francesca Scotti, Adolfo Andrade-Cetto, Monica Berger-Gonzalez, Javier Echeverría, Fabio Friso, Felipe Garcia-Cardona, Alan Hesketh, Martin Hitziger, Caroline Maake, Matteo Politi, Carmenza Spadafora and Rita Spadafora. Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, 8 June 2020.
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Reflections on the spiritual dimension as the interface between drug addiction and traditional Amazonian medicine
We published in our web page this article based on the conference presented by Dr. Jacques Mabit at Maps Psychedelic Science Conference, 2013. The video of the conferences in also available in our YouTube Channel: Twenty Years at Takiwasi.
Based on 20 years of experience at the Takiwasi Center, Peru, it is proposed that the pathology of drug addiction inevitably implies more than simple physical intoxication or psycho-affective problems, and comprises an existential, metaphysical, semantic dimension of meaning that we call spiritual. Within the context of healing rituals with psychoactive plants, traditional Amazonian medicine addresses the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions simultaneously. For this reason, this traditional Amazonian treatment has the potential to offer a solution to the problem of addiction. The Western approach, however, often denies the sacred or the spiritual, resulting in a tendency to confuse extreme psychedelic experiences with spiritual experiences. In this paradigm, psychoactive plants are more often used to facilitate psychotherapeutic processes rather than to open a door to a genuine relationship with the spiritual world. In our intervention, we propose criteria for discerning between the psychological and spiritual dimensions, and for transitioning from one dimension into the next.
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Ikaros and Books for Sale
One way to contribute and support the activities of the Takiwasi Center is through the purchase of our products such as ikaros, books and photos.
The income generated from the sale of these products is entirely destined to support Takiwasi in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with limited economic resources who suffer from drug addiction.
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Ayahuasca and Beyond: Herbal Traditional Amazonian Medicine for Human Therapy and Planetary Health
During the 2019 World Ayahuasca Conference organized by ICEERS, our scientific director Matteo Politi presented this speech on the dangers of transforming Ayahuasca into a en evidence-based medicine.
Despite the internationalization process of the Ayahuasca consumption, from a biomedical perspective the authentication of the plants material and the composition of the finished brew is still matter of debate. Within the scientific community there is a consensus about the main ingredient of Ayahuasca preparation, identified in the plant Banisteriopsis caapi (Spruce ex Griseb.) Morton. From a taxonomical viewpoint, this genus is constantly evolving and rather complex including 136 species. The increasing popularity of Ayahuasca has triggered a considerable growing of the so-called shamanic tourism in the Amazon basin, allowing foreigners to discover a whole series of practices derived from Traditional Amazonian Medicine (TAM) including the shamanic plant diet, a ritualized ingestion of others medicinal plants beyond Ayahuasca. However, the above mentioned simplification versus internationalization process could affect the quality, safety, and efficacy of these traditional herbal remedies, as well as determine the loss of significant cultural heritages related with the proper use of such kind of ethnomedicines; a traditional ecological knowledge that can play a role not only in the context of human therapy, but also for planetary health issues at large.
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