Plant Medicine
Four medicines with long histories and very different profiles. These pages cover where each one comes from and what is understood about it, not how to take it.
The plants below appear together on this site because they come up together in conversations about entheogenic policy in Michigan. That is the only thing they have in common. Their histories, their cultural contexts and their risks are entirely separate, and treating them as one category is the most common mistake people make when they start reading about them.
These pages are educational. They are not a guide to using anything, and they are not medical advice. If you are weighing a decision that involves your health, that is a conversation for a clinician who knows your history, particularly if you take prescription medication, where some of the interactions involved are serious.
The medicines
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An Amazonian brew with centuries of ceremonial use, and a set of medication interactions that make preparation genuinely consequential.
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The most familiar plant on this list, the most legally settled in Michigan, and still the least consistently understood.
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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.
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The fungus at the centre of most current research and most current legislation, in Michigan and elsewhere.