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HEALTH RESEARCH
AND DISSEMINATION
TREATMENT OF ADDICTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
AND MENTAL HEALTH
AND PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH RESEARCH
AND SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION
To ensure adequate transmission of the results and findings, Takiwasi presents its research work
and clinical experience in conferences in the health field, participates in scientific media spaces
around the world, and organizes scientific forums of international significance. It develops its own
editorial line in several magazines, documentaries, and books as well as conducts training,
awareness and internship programs oriented to health professionals, therapists and community
health actors.
It has a specialized Traditional Medicine library with a collection of more than 4,700 books, 2,000
articles and 250 audio-visuals in the field of ethno- medicine, indigenous spirituality and botany that
represents a unique resource for researchers.
TREATMENT OF
ADDICTIONS AND MENTAL
HEALTH CARE
Takiwasi Center is also a Therapeutic Community recognized by the Peruvian State, dedicated to the
treatment of people with drug addictions and mental health problems. The therapeutic proposal of the
centre is based on an innovative protocol that combines the knowledge and practices of Traditional
Amazonian medicine with modern psychology and medicine.
In 23 years of activity they have achieved important results: A multidisciplinary therapeutic team,
composed of 7 psychologists, two doctors and three indigenous traditional therapists, ensuring an
integrated approach.
449 patients with severe addictions treated in our Therapeutic Community, recording a success
percentage of 54%: clearly more effective than conventional treatment methods.
1,024 patients and families with mental health problems treated in the out-patient clinic. 2,771
patients from all over the world have received follow-up therapy by means of personal development
retreats1 and psycho-emotional restructuring, inspired by Traditional Amazonian Medicine.
To improve evaluation of the therapeutic proposal, and contribute to a broader understanding of
addictions, Takiwasi Center is developing a computerized system for collection and collation of
clinical data (Proyecto Plus), whose challenge is to adapt to very different practices such as
Traditional Amazonian medicine and modern psychology and medical science.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
AND PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT
The Natural Products Laboratory is the business entity of Takiwasi Center. It is a project developing as
a social enterprise in the area of Peruvian biotrade. It produces natural products of high quality and
added value, inspired by the ancestral knowledge of Amazonian Traditional Medicine, and markets
them in regional, national and international markets.
It works with 74 families of agroforestry producers in 21 indigenous and rural communities, training
them in sustainable management of forest resources and guaranteeing them fair payment for the
harvest and care of medicinal plants.
Through this strategy of articulation in the value chain of medicinal plants, the work of the Natural
Products Laboratory promotes the valuation and conservation of 19,655 hectares of Amazonian forest.
It also works to ensure that the native communities retain control over their ancestral knowledge
related to the use of medicinal plants. During the last 4 years it has mentored 180 indigenous therapists
in the registration of 236 recipes based on medicinal plants in the National Registry of Collective
Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and
Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI).
In the framework of the partnership with the medicinal plant producers association Ampik Sacha,
45 indigenous producers have been trained in Good Manufacturing and Management Practices to
progressively empower them in productive and commercial management of their own line
of natural products.
Member of:
World Federation of Therapeutic Communities
European Union
Development Bank of Latin America
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
and the program INCAGRO
United Nation Environment Program
URKU Estudios Amaznicos
BioCan Program
Ministry of Culture
CENTER FOR THE REHABILITATION OF DRUG ADDICTIONS AND RESEARCH IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Jr. Prolongacin Alerta 466, 22221 / Tarapoto, San Martn, Per
(51-42) 522818 / (51-42) 525479
takiwasi@takiwasi.com
www.takiwasi.com