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Vegetalismo is a term used to refer to a practice of mestizo shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon in which the shamans—known as vegetalistas—are said to gain their knowledge and power to cure from the vegetales, or plants of the region. Many believe to receive their knowledge from ingesting the hallucinogenic, emetic brew ayahuasca.[1][2]
- ^ Luis Eduardo Luna, "Vegetalismo shamanism among the Mestizo population of the Peruvian Amazon". Scribd.com (1986-06-05). Retrieved on 2012-05-01.
- ^ Vegetalismo