Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can grow new brain cells

Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by sammalloy on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:21PM (#25250132)

This is my thinking as well. There are surviving remnants of pre-Columbian pharmacopoeia for the Maya, Aztec, and Inca, as only three examples. I wonder if the ingredients and instructions for the brew were previously recorded in a similar manner, but then reduced to an oral tradition once religious people like Diego de Landa showed up and started burning anything that might have challenged the new gods.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by Guthur on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:06AM (#25251384)

Non of these actions are uniquely European or religious.

You'll find similar outcomes throughout history and the world. Whether it's nationalism, communism, religion, tribalism or what ever. Us and them dynamics are constantly being created and exploited by various groups throughout our collective history.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by sebmellen on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:28AM (#25251483)

FYI I don't think you're getting downvoted because anyone disagrees, just because it's off topic.

No one said such actions are uniquely European or religious.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by Guthur on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:41AM (#25251528)

The two ancestor posts seemed to imply it a little. But granted I should not have engaged with it as it was straying so far from the topic.

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