Numerous
indigenous healing traditions around the world employ plants with psychoactive
effects to facilitate
divination
and other spiritual healing rituals. Southern Africa has thus far been
considered to have relatively
few
psychoactive plant species of cultural importance, and little has been
published on the subject. This
paper
reports on 85 species of plants that are used for divination by southern
Bantu-speaking people. Of
these, 39
species (45 %) have other reported psychoactive uses, and a number have
established hallucinogenic
activity.
These findings indicate that psychoactive plants have an important role in
traditional healing practices
in
southern Africa.
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