That answer will alter by the pathway and personal choice of the specific shaman.
It's also important to note that some shamans don't use any substances at all -- not even incense (which, for the most part, is in no way mind-altering).
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That depends on how you look at it. Few currently used drugs come directly from the rainforest, although many drugs were developed on the basis of 'lead compounds' that were identified from tropical plants. Examples are local anesthetics like lidocaine, that were developed from cocaine, or drugs used in chemotherapy. Roughly 25% of the drugs come from plants originally, not all of them from rainforests though.
Quite likely. The ancient Egyptians used hallucinogenic plants in religious rituals.
Pharmacognosy is the branch of pharmacology that studies drugs extracted from plants and herbs that are used for medicinal purposes.
Pretty much plants used for making drugs nah I got no idea
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Nostradamus used drugs, yes, but he claimed they did not give him his visions, only enhanced his ability to see them.
they are used in biological and medicine reason , product of pharmaceutical drugs, experimental medicine and agriculture
Yes, they are in most cases safer. Natural drugs are herbs and other plants that have medicinal uses. Many pharmeceudical (manufactured) drugs, ae a result of extracting the substance in the plant, and changing it in some way in order to patent it. Other pharmeceudical drugs are created in some other way. In either case, natural herbs and plants are usually safer than manufactured drugs in that though they work slower, natural herbs that are used medicinally do not have the side effects that pharmeceudical drugs do. This is not to say that herbs and other natural ways of treating disease may not have side effects, just that they are not as common or severe as manufactured drugs.
These drugs are used to induce (start) or continue labor.
Antimigraine drugs are used to treat headaches once they have started. These drugs should not be taken to prevent headaches.
According to different cultures and belief systems different tools are used, but one is common amongst all Shaman...they all use drums, usually made themselves, that aren't allowed to be touched by anyone else.