Has Ayahuasca become the miraculous tropical plant of the 21st century?

For millennia, humans, depending on their natural habitat, culture, and beliefs, have developed various methods to treat illnesses. In every corner of the planet, one can still find healers, magnetizers, acupuncturists, bone-setters, and shamans, all of whom have acquired extraordinary know-how that often provides a valuable complement to traditional Western medicine. In South America, shamans or healers base their practice on ancestral Amerindian medicine, where contact with and respect for nature allows the rebalancing of each person’s energetic and spiritual forces. According to their diagnosis and experience, they are convinced that any physical, mental, or emotional illness is simply due to an energetic imbalance between a person, their past, their present, and the environment in which they live.Ayahuasca is a vine that grows in the Amazon rainforest with hallucinogenic properties. It has been consumed by master shamans of Amerindian communities in the Amazon for over 5,000 years for its healing abilities according to their beliefs and local culture. When mixed with other plants, this decoction is said to promote introspection and a more accurate understanding of the world and oneself through a modified state of consciousness. These shamanic spiritual rituals with Ayahuasca and other tropical plants should never be taken lightly. Nevertheless, they are currently experiencing impressive growth, attracting more and more foreigners each year in search of an “existential miracle” or a dream, who very often leave disappointed by the mediocre services of opportunistic charlatans—a bitter feeling of a well-organized scam. But what did they expect? If one does not have a clear idea of what one truly wants to improve in life and personality, why travel thousands of kilometers to see a shaman? It would never occur to us to visit our doctor just to try medicines, and it is the same with Ayahuasca—we do not go to a master shaman deep in the Amazon to test tropical substances! Pharmaceutical drugs, essential oils, and herbal brews are precise concentrates of active substances derived from plants; they all have benefits but also contraindications that must be considered, and obviously, Ayahuasca does too. The Amazon rainforest is rich not only in Ayahuasca vines but also in a multitude of medicinal plants, often more appropriate depending on each case, with extraordinary medicinal and spiritual properties that act directly or indirectly on our mental, physical, and even pathological health. But beware, the master shaman is not a magician—simply a man with deep practical knowledge of using tropical medicinal plants, passed down by his ancestors over many years. He is simultaneously the therapist, the sage, the healer, the advisor, and the seer of the village. He is simply meant to guide you on your path to healing.