Sacred Plants and Mental Health in Latin America
May 22, 2019 Oscar Espin, European Institute For Multidisciplinary Studies On Human Rights And Science - Knowmad Institut 1 citation
Mexico has the greatest diversity of sacred plants in the Americas, with indigenous groups maintaining magical-religious relationships with them. These plants are used ritually and medicinally and are seen as carrying a bond with the sacred. In early research, substances like psilocybin, mescaline, and ergotamine were classified as classical psychedelics, a categorization that aided psychiatry and neuroscience in the 1950s and 1960s.