Psychoactive plants and ethnopsychiatric medicines of the matsigenka

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 321-332

  Shepard, Glenn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Ethnopharmacology; Ethnopsychiatry; Materia medica; Psychoactive plants; Shamanism

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BANISTERIOSIS CAAPI EXTRACT; BRUGMANSIA AUREA EXTRACT; BRUNFELSIA EXTRACT; CYPERUS EXTRACT; ERGOT ALKALOID; N,N DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PSYCHOTRIA VIRIDIS EXTRACT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SCOPOLAMINE; SERI OPANA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; GRIEF; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; PATENT; PERU; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032416589     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1998.10399708     Document Type: Article

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