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Ayahuasca

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410860704 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Angelica Ukaigwe, S. Vinod Kumar

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychedelics and Drug Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAyahuascaPsychologySociologyAnthropology

Abstract

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Abstract Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has been used by the Indigenous people of the Amazonian Basin for centuries. Ayahuasca is made with the stems of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub or leaves of the Diplopterys cabrerana. When consumed together, the monoamine oxidase inhibitors in B. caapi render N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) from P. viridis orally active by preventing its deamination, creating powerful psychedelic effects. Ayahuasca has religious and cultural significance in Brazil, where it is consumed as a religious sacrament. The Peruvian government recognizes the ritual use of ayahuasca practiced by the Indigenous Amazonian communities. Ayahuasca has therapeutic potential for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, and eating disorders, which are relevant in a palliative care practice. Ayahuasca carries a higher risk of drug interaction than other psychedelics. Side effects range from nausea/vomiting to, in rare cases, chronic long-acting effects on the vascular system. There is varied global consensus about the legality of ayahuasca. Although natural products containing DMT are not subject to control under the 1971 Convention on Psychoactive Substances, DMT is considered a Schedule I controlled substance. Ayahuasca and DMT have been banned throughout Europe and the United States. However, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, and the United States have granted religious use exemptions, and ayahuasca and DMT have been decriminalized in numerous cities throughout the United States. When considering an ayahuasca ceremony, ethical and cultural guidelines should be adhered to in order to prevent appropriation and exploitation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.106
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1060.043

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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