Interview with Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman, by Roger Rumrrill. Interview by Roger Rumrrill

Roger Rumrrill, a journalist headquartered in Lima, Peru who is a noted expert on the Peruvian Amazon, interviewed Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo urban shaman in Pucallpa, who utilizes ayahuasca in curing rituals. Sr. Arrévalo comments on the phenomenon known as drug tourism, where urban men and women provide tours for foreigners, for a price, to experience drug-induced mystical experiences in urban settings like Iquitos and Pucallpa, Peru, as well as in Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador. Arrévalo distinguishes between folkloric shamanism and touristic practices which are currently in vogue and, in his opinion, are the result of people trying to resolve personal problems. Arrévalo sees a spiritual and psychological crisis in Europe and North American society. The Shipibo shaman laments the misuse of toxic plants as additives to the ayahuasca potion and the damage that these plants cause to the unsuspecting tourist who doesn't really get his money's worth from shamans without experience, people who are liars and cheats and who don't have the capacity, the preparation or the boldness to do the work.     

Plantes médicinales populaires des marchés de Dakar (Sénégal)

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In Senegal about six hundred species are used in traditional medicine. Some of these plants are sold by herbalists in Dakar markets and in the suburbs. This study shows that only forty species are commonly used for various indications in popular traditional medicine in this area.     

Une des causes d'erreur des méthodes d'analgésimétrie en expérimentation animale

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Action de la Noradrénaline et de la Réserpine sur l'Analgésie expérimentale

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The brief life of the Société Intéressée

The Société Intéressée was created by the Société Libre des pharmaciens de Paris in 1797. It had the purpose to finance the teaching which was delivered in the Ecole gratuite de pharmacie, Arbalète Street. It gave off stocks and it produced some pharmaceutical products which were sold to pharmacists. It was conducted by Louis-Jacques Guiart and Simon Morelot. It disappeared with the Ecole Gratuite and the Société Libre in 1803.     

Méthodes chimiothérapiques en psychiatrie — Les nouveaux médicaments psychotropes

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