Psychoactive substances in different cultures and religious practices
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2011-04
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Radenkova, J.
Saeva, E.
Saev, V.
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Централна медицинска библиотека, МУ София / Central Medical Library - MU Sofia
Резюме
Many drugs are used for their mood and perception change effects, including those with accepted uses in medicine and psychiatry. There is archaeological
evidence for the use of psychoactive substances dating back at least
10 000 years, as well as historical data for cultural purposes in the last 5000 years.
Some psychoactives, particularly hallucinogens, have been used for religious purposes since prehistoric times. Examples of traditional entheogens include: kykeon,
ambrosia, iboga, soma, peyote, ayahuasca. Other traditional entheogens include
cannabis, ethanol, ergine, psilocybe mushrooms, opium. Although entheogens are
taboo and most of them are offi cially banned in Christian and Islamic societies, their ubiquity and importance in terms of different spiritual traditions of other cultures is unquestioned.
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Address for correspondence:
Julia Radenkova – Saeva, MD, PhD,
Toxicology Clinic,
Emergency Hospital “N. I. Pirogov”
Sofia
е-mail: jrsaeva2@yahoo.co.uk
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psychoactive substances, drugs, entheogens, hallucinogens
Цитирания
J. Radenkova, E. Saeva and V. Saev. Psychoactive substances in different cultures and religious practices - Acta medica bulgarica , 38, 2011, No 1, 122-130.