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Nice article on tobacco. I am a strong anti-smoker (commercial tobacco), but as the article states, there are many good and health-positive uses for this ubiquitous, powerful, and ancient plant. Those uses go back much further than modern medicine. In the Amazon, the original form of the plant is considered sacred and is used by the medicine men and women–shamans–as part of a tradition of healing and vision seeking, often in conjunction with the ancient vision plant medicine, ayahuasca. In that setting, a mapacho is used: a large “cigarette” of the sacred tobacco, made from the species “nicotiana rustica” – the rustic, original tobacco of the forest. When smoked, it is not generally inhaled into the lungs and rustic tobacco can be used in liquid form (usually administered through the nose) and in other ways by specialists called Tabaqueros.
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