News
02 May 2019
Short-Term Treatment Effects of a SUD Therapy Involving Traditional Amazonian Medicine
Research article by Ilana Berlowitz et al. published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, May 2019. Chronic illness management today commonly involves alternative medicines. Substance use disorder (SUD), as a chronic psychosomatic illness, might benefit from a similar approach. The Takiwasi Center offers such a SUD treatment program involving Amazonian medicine combined with psychotherapy. The current study assessed this integrative program‘s short-term therapeutic effects. Results provide first indications for significantly improved SUD symptoms after the Amazonian medicine-based treatment.
24 April 2019
The perfume ritual is a therapy derived from traditional Amazonian medicine and used in the therapeutic protocol of the Takiwasi Center, especially in the initial phase of detoxification of drug addict patients. Through the use of some substances such as tobacco, perfumes, camphor accompanied by the healing songs called ikaros, a ritual cleansing, purification and reinforcement work is carried out.
17 April 2019
The Path of Plants - A Journey to Healing
The Path of Plants is a documentary series that demonstrates the complexity of the debates around the emblematic plants of indigenous peoples. Each story is embodied by a person or a group. At this moment, a first film about the Takiwasi Center entitled "A Journey to Healing” is being edited. We invite you to support the crowdfunding campaign!
16 April 2019
Support Takiwasi by buying art photographs
Discover Miguel Palomino, a Peruvian photographer who uses appropriation and manipulation to give photography a new meaning. His series Unicorn offers collages created with photographs of personal archives dating back to the beginning of the last century and fragments of the iconography "The Garden of Delights". By purchasing these art works, available on the platform BEKKAUSE, you also support the Takiwasi Center.
15 April 2019
The role of icaros as therapeutic tools in psycho-emotional healing
A study of musical experiences of traditional Amazonian medicine. On May 3rd, Maya Sherwin will be presenting a poster and also giving a short presentation based on its field research at Takiwasi, at the one-day conference of the Music Therapy Charity, that is celebrating 50 years of music therapy research at the University of Roehampton, London.
