Maria Sabina was an Indigenous Mazatec healer from Huautla de Jiménez, a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico. She used psychedelic mushrooms to heal a variety of conditions, as was her community’s tradition for many generations before the Columbian invasion. In the mid-20th century, American banker and ethnobotanist Robert Gordon Wasson traveled in search of Sabina..
Maybe more surprising than a 4,000-year-old prescription for ‘extract of crocodile’ or a 2,600-year-old warning that sex after rich food can cause leprosy, is how much the ancient medics got right.