The Peruvian National Institute of
Culture (INC) has declared the knowledge and traditional uses of the Ayahuasca
plant by the Amazon natives, a National Cultural Heritage. The INC goal is to protect the
traditional use as well as the sacred ritual character of the Ayahuasca, from its use out of
context and with commercial purposes.
The effects produced by the Ayahuasca (liana
from the skies), which are different from the effects usually produced by
hallucinogens, have been researched extensively. Ayahuasca rituals are given in
a limited cultural frame for religious and therapeutic reasons. For natives in
the Amazon, it is a gateway to the spiritual world and its secrets; their
traditional medicine has been structured around the Ayahuasca ritual.
http://www.co.terra.com/terramagazine/interna/0,,EI8860-OI3010825,00.html
http://elcomercio.pe/ediciononline/HTML/2008-07-13/declaran-patrimonio-cultural-nacion-uso-ayahuasca.html
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