Dr Gabor Mate is not your typical doctor – more’s the pity, perhaps.

He works with compassion and understanding helping us heal.

Recently successful in gaining legal decision in Canada’s Highest court to continue operation of  Insight – Vancouver’s safe injection site, he is again feeling the full force of legislative coercion.

Dr Mate has been working with ayahuasca: the vine of the souls, found in the amazon and used for generations for its properties that promote healing. He has been using it to help people suffering with addictions heal themselves.

Drinking tea made from the plant can help people hold the pain caused by difficult experiences so that they can work to form new  bonds, rewiring their own brains and live more at ease .

Use of the plant in Canada is subject to legal debate that has nothing to do with healing but, it seems,  a lot to do with lawyers’ salaries, and bureaucratic international trade negotiations being more important than allowing folks to heal themelves.

Read, watch for yourself – then, if you like, write to your MP : maybe if they drank some ayahusca tea we’d all be able to heal some.

Article: Globe & Mail, Thursday 10 Nov

BC Doctor agrees to stop using amazonian plant to treat addictions

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-news/bc-doctor-agrees-to-stop-using-amazonian-plant-to-treat-addictions/article2231413/

Jungle Prescription

episode of The Nature of Things aired last night on CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/jungle-prescription.html

note this is the preview- when the episode goes up we’ll include it.