Here you find our articles about Herbal Medicine applications around the world, typically part of a multitude of traditional medicine practices.
Traditional Rapé snuff is a preparation made from either the leaves of the common tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) or from Mapacho tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), the latter creating a more powerful application. The word Rapé comes [ Read more … ]
Bufo alvarius (aka Incilius alvarius, Colorado River toad, or Sapo Grande) is a Bufo toad species from Northern America that produces Bufotoxin, which is secreted by its glands for its protection. This secretion — also [ Read more … ]
Kambo, also known as Frog vaccine or Vacina do sapo (the Brazilian Portuguese name), consists of the poisonous secretions of the skin of the Kambo, the latter being a species of frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor). Apart [ Read more … ]
Mapacho is the South American name for the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, which is typically found in rainforests. It’s sometimes also called jungle tobacco. In any case, Mapacho is a very strong type of tobacco [ Read more … ]
We often read or hear about herbs, plants, concoctions, drugs, or other substances that they induce psychoactive, psychedelic, hallucinogenic, and/or entheogenic effects. Nevertheless, some concoctions or substances are psychoactive without being classified as psychedelic, but [ Read more … ]
Ayahuasca (also spelled Ayawaska) is a psychoactive, psychedelic, hallucinogenic, and entheogenic decoction or brew, commonly made from the Banisteriopsis Caapi vine (a liana) and the leaves of the Psychotria Viridis shrub (also known as Chacruna). [ Read more … ]
A common way to use CBD (Cannabidiol) and THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) is in the form of oils and tinctures. Oils are typically produced by extracting the sought-after ingredient from a plant (usually from the flowers, fruits, [ Read more … ]
Cannabis — typically the CBD and THC compounds — can be eaten or drunk. But before we continue this post, just a quick note: in the remainder of this article we will use the term [ Read more … ]
CBD oil, the full name being Cannabidiol oil, is an ingredient found in the Cannabis plant (also called Marijuana plant). CBD is a non-intoxicating, non-psychoactive component (which means that one doesn’t get high from it), [ Read more … ]
Cannabis use has a long history. The plant is thought to have been cultivated already 10,000 years ago in Asia, but written evidence of its use — for both drug and non-drug applications — appears [ Read more … ]