Original Air Date Wednesday August 30, 2017

In this week's episode you will learn about:

⦾ Therapeutic benefits of ancient medicines

⦾ 5-MeO-DMT as an effective drug addiciton treatment

⦾ Ahayuasca as treatment for depression, PTSD, anxiety & more

⦾ What an experience with ancient medicine is like

Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca. She received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award, has published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals, and has worked as a psychological consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the United Nations. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine. More here. 

Dr. Octavio Rettig Hinojosa is a Mexican doctor who works with the sacred medicine 5-MeO-DMT found in the secretions of the Sonoran Desert Toad. Dr. Rettig has worked with the Seri Tribe of Sonora, Mexico, to help treat methamphetamine addicts, reintroducing the use of the medicine to the local culture that had lost it. He has been authorized by the council of Seri elders to use this most powerful of shamanic medicines in the West.