Indigenous groups

Ayahuasca (yage) Banisteriopsis caapi Bark of vine Harmine, harmaline Drink Hallucinogenic Shamans, various indigenous groups Amazon basin... 

Diversity and First Results on an Indigenous Group of Marine Microorganisms. 212... 

Only if the research proposal indicates that the programme will interview indigenous people does COSTECH request a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the researchers and the indigenous group. 

Prior informed consent procedures should include the national authority and the indigenous group providing the genetic resources or the traditional knowledge. At the same time, those requesting access to genetic resources and... 

A review by Rodrigues et al [8] shows there are ethnopharmacological surveys concerning 26 indigenous groups in Brazil, some of them occupy the borders of other South American countries [9-38]. The use of 307 plants with possible action on the CNS, with 25 classified as "hallucinogens" were recorded [8]. This review also includes 10 plants with potential anxiolytic and 7 with hypnotic effects, to be presented in the present study, below. 

Caffeine [3] is possibly the most widely used psychoaetive substanee in the world. Caffeine is valued because of its stimulant-like behavioural aetivity on mood and performance. Caffeine is found in several plants whieh are widely known and employed throughout the world. Wherever these caffeine containing plants were found, indigenous groups have reeoided their mildly stimulant effects and have grown habituated to their use. The most well-known sourees in contemporary western society ate eoffee, tea, eaffeinated soft drinks, eoeoa, chocolate and certain medications. 

Many indigenous groups in the world have developed particular teas used as stimulant beverages. Among those are coffee, green tea, black tea, guarana, and mate. It is interesting to note that the xanthine alkaloid caffeine is a principal component of all these drinks. In this book, caffeine is described in Chapter 11.1. 

Many indigenous groups in the South American rain forests of the Amzon basin use blowguns with blowpipe darts poisoned at the tip to paralyze hunted game. The poisonous material is known as curare (which means poison in several local languages). There are three kinds of curare which are named by the difference in the containers used to carry them these are (1) tubo curare (tube of bamboo curare), (2) pot curare, and (3) calabash curare, and are described below. 

Social Engineering retirement communities, elite residences, restricted tourism/recreation spaces, marginalized immigrant populations, indigenous groups (Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, U.S.)... 

Food. Historically used as a food source by indigenous groups of Florida survival food of early European settlers (foster and duke). 

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