We Wouldn’t Have Magic Mushrooms Without Indigenous Mexican Women

<p>For thousands of years, the Mazatec people in the mountain ranges of Oaxaca, M&eacute;xico have been using mushrooms medicinally in ceremonies. The doctors of this community were curanderas who could cure patients of physical and mental illnesses with Los Ni&ntilde;os Santos (psilocybin mushrooms)!</p> <p>In 1955, a New York banker named Gordon Wasson traveled to the mountain ranges in Huautla de Jim&eacute;nez, Oaxaca, M&eacute;xico searching for what he called &ldquo;the magic mushroom.&rdquo; Although the Mazatec people would typically only share the medicine within their community, a curandera (mushroom healer) named Maria Sabina took this Westerner into her ceremony.</p> <p><a href="https://earfchild.medium.com/we-wouldnt-have-magic-mushrooms-without-indigenous-mexican-women-148553c0e92f"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>