Editing Entheogen (section)

==== South America ====
[[File:Colcoca02.jpg|thumb|left|Coca leaves]]

The [[Tairona]] people of Colombia's [[Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta]] chewed the [[coca]] plant before engaging in extended meditation and prayer.<ref name="banrep.gov.co">{{cite web |author=Museo del Oro, Banco de la República |url=http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/expo_bogota3c.htm |title=Museo del Oro, Colombia |language=es |publisher=Banrep.gov.co |access-date=2012-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511180916/http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/expo_bogota3c.htm |archive-date=11 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[Nicotiana rustica]] is used in the [[Amazon rainforest|Amazon]] by Mapacho,<ref>{{cite book | date = 1992 | title = Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 0-553-37130-4 | page = 196 | chapter = Shamanic Tobaccos}}</ref> and tobacco shamans known as tobaqueros.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting The Tobacco Spirit - Reality Sandwich|url=http://realitysandwich.com/217970/meeting-the-tobacco-spirit/|website=Reality Sandwich|date=27 March 2014 }}</ref>

A ritual use by the [[Quechua people]] involves drinking [[guayusa]] infusion to have foretelling dreams for successful hunting expeditions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Notas de un botánico en el Amazonas y los Andes|last=Spruce|first=R.|publisher=Colección Tierra Incógnita|year=1996|location=Quito, Ecuador}}</ref>

[[Trichocereus macrogonus var. pachanoi|''Trichocereus macrogonus'' var. ''pachanoi'']] has a long history of being used in Andean [[traditional medicine]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bussmann |first1=Rainer W |last2=Sharon |first2=Douglas |date=2006-11-07 |title=Traditional medicinal plant use in Northern Peru: tracking two thousand years of healing culture |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |volume=2 |pages=47 |doi=10.1186/1746-4269-2-47 |doi-access=free |issn=1746-4269 |pmc=1637095 |pmid=17090303}}</ref> Archaeological studies have found evidence of use going back two thousand years, to [[Moche (culture)|Moche]] culture, [[Nazca culture]], and [[Chavín culture]]. In 2022, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture declared the traditional use of San Pedro cactus in northern Peru as [[cultural heritage]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-17 |title=Declaran Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación a los conocimientos, saberes y usos del cactus San Pedro |url=https://elperuano.pe/noticia/197142-declaran-patrimonio-cultural-de-la-nacion-a-los-conocimientos-saberes-y-usos-del-cactus-san-pedro |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=elperuano.pe |language=es}}</ref>