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Case study of Peruvian towns where the hallucinogenic vine, ayahuasca, is made into a drink that is used in sessions to treat illness, effect love magic, & bewitch. Mostly, the plant is used in healing sessions where the vision induced by the drug is interpreted by a healer to help patients gain insight into the reason they are ill.Marlene Dobkin de Rios is the author of 'Visionary Vine: Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon' with ISBN 9780881330939 and ISBN 0881330930.
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