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Shamanism During The 19th Century
During the 19th century, Shamanism was a practice among primitive societies which the diagnosis or treatment was based on trance-like states of the healer or the patient. On the other hand, the shaman is a healer whose diagnosis of patients is based at least in part on trances or frequently induced by hallucinogenic drugs. However, during the 19th-century drugs were available and grew almost everywhere. Moreover, during this era, people used natural herbs to cure most everything. Therefore, not being educated as today’s society; people ate of a profusion of blue morning glories or brightly colored mushrooms which produces hallucinations similar to LSD. This hallucination drug is better known as peyote. Never the less, this drug grew elsewhere

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