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Plant Medicine

Psilocybe mushrooms growing from the forest floor.

These pages are educational. They are not a guide to using anything, and they are not medical advice.

The medicines

  • Ayahuasca vine and leaves prepared in a pot over an open fire.

    Ayahuasca

    An Amazonian brew with centuries of ceremonial use, and a set of medication interactions that make preparation genuinely consequential.

  • A cannabis plant in close detail, lit from above.

    Cannabis

    The most familiar plant on this list, the most legally settled in Michigan, and still the least consistently understood.

  • A green tree frog resting on a branch in the rainforest.

    Kambo

    A secretion from a South American tree frog, used in cleansing rituals, and the one on this list most often confused with a psychedelic, which it is not.

  • Psilocybe mushrooms growing from the forest floor.

    Psilocybin

    The fungus at the centre of most current research and most current legislation, in Michigan and elsewhere.