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Bitter Brew: The Amazonian Plant Medicine Mystery
Season 3
Episode 8
Published 1 year, 5 months ago
Description
An Amazonian brew created by combining two plants. Indigenous pharmacology that makes an otherwise inactive compound work. And a psychoactive substance once considered too threatening to study behind the Iron Curtain.
Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
An interactive ethnobotanical toxicology case involving ceremonial exposure, hallucinations, vomiting, drug interactions, dangerous serotonin excess, and emergency assessment of traditional medicines.