A frightening world of shamans attacking and defending. Spirit darts are principle method of attack. Main method of removal is sucking cure. All males above age of puberty use banisteriopsis. Government by hallucination.
Shamans cure patients through shared hallucination and guided story telling.
Three tales of people using LSD to cure psychiatric complaints. In most cases a Freudian sounding tale is produced and given curative powers. Traditional medicines often ask different questions than modern medicine. While modern medicine focuses on treating symptoms traditional medicine focuses on the issue of why an individual got a disease in the first place. Modern medicine often offers no better way to answer these questions than traditional medicine and thus traditional and modern medicine can co-exist more or less peacefully in many societies.