Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham. Photo by Jeff Skeirik
The three-fold purpose of Medicine Hunter, Inc. is to promote natural, plant-based medicines, to protect the natural environment, and to support indigenous cultures. The company was founded by Chris Kilham, a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who has conducted medicinal plant research in over 45 countries and lectures worldwide about holistic wellness and botanical medicines. As a speaker and guest expert on TV in U.S. and international markets, he advocates for traditional botanical medicines, including psychoactive and psychedelic plant medicines such as cannabis. Chris has been featured in The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Forbes, Psychology Today, Playboy, LA Weekly and Newsweek and appeared on CNN, NBC Nightly News, The Dr. Oz Show, ABC Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, ABC 20/20 and many other top-tier media venues. He has written fifteen books, including the new The Lotus and The Bud: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Yoga Practice, The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook, Psyche Delicacies and The Five Tibetans, which has been published in over 28 languages.
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The Latest From the Author of The Five Tibetans and The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook
NEW YORK - NY In India, both yoga and cannabis are considered gifts from the Hindu god Siva (Shiva). They are viewed as twin currents of wisdom and enlightenment, and allies for healing and the expansion of consciousness. As ethnobotanist, yogi, and “Medicine Hunter” Christopher S. Kilham explains in his fifteenth book The Lotus and The Bud (January 2021), when thoughtfully combined, cannabis and yoga offer profound benefits for body, mind, and spirit. Drawing upon his many intrepid adventures, audiences with storied yogis, and decades of practice, Kilham examines the history and lore of these venerable resources within the pages of his latest title: The Lotus and The Bud: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Yoga Practice.
Zenning Out at The Intersection of Cannabis and Yogic Spirituality, by Lindsey Bartlett, FORBES
“It’s my hope for the spiritual community to use our energy to engage in the world and contribute what is positive, not to hang in the cave and play with our beads.” - Chris Kilham
AYAHUASCA SUSTAINABILITY FIELD REPORT
Over the past several years, members of ayahuasca groups and various social media sites have referred to the supply of ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi, Malpighiaceae) in Peru as imperiled and environmentally devastated. And yet, the largest ayahuasca retreat centers in Iquitos (Loreto region) and Pucallpa (Ucayali region) appear well supplied with this vine. To determine supply, I conducted a multi-site field assessment in the Peruvian Amazon.
“Cultivation of ayahuasca is very much on people’s minds, both from a sustainability standpoint and from a cost perspective. Cultivation of ayahuasca assures sustainability, and also offers full traceability of materials. These are great advantages. Additionally, there is a sense among many that ayahuasca, even if it is relatively plentiful in the Rio Tamaya area, will sooner or later become endangered if cultivation efforts are not widely initiated.” – Chris Kilham
MEDICINE HUNTER BOTANICAL PRODUCTS
Chris Kilham created these premium sustainable botanical formulas exclusively for Purity Products. Find them on PURITY PRODUCTS or AMAZON.
“At Medicine Hunter, we believe that trade in medicinal plants, when conducted well and ethically, can result in a cascade of benefits. In order to promote trade effectively, we work with companies to investigate medicinal plants and to develop and market plant-based remedies.” – Chris Kilham
Ashwagandha, The King of Herbs
Chris is currently Brand Ambassador for KSM-66 Ashwagandha, the finest Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) root extract in the world. KSM-66’s certified organic, whole ashwagandha root extract sets the high bar for traceability, manufacturing excellence, superior composition, and clinical studies.
“Of all the medicinal plants used in India’s several millennia old tradition of Ayurveda, Ashwagandha is the most highly prized. It is used in many cases, for virtually every condition. It is also especially good for restoring vitality and full sexual potency.” - Chris Kilham
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Hacking The Cosmic Motherboard
At the now legendary Visionary Convergence Los Angeles, Chris Kilham, founder of Ayahuasca Test Pilots, brings psychedelics, neurology, ancient wisdom, cosmic consciousness, infinity of mind, social ethics and future consciousness together in this fast-paced visionary talk. Through psychedelics, we can hack the cosmic motherboard, and establish new neural pathways, thinking and behavior, free from mindless convention and conformity.
In the Jungle With Dr. Feelgood
Chris Kilham and Zoe Helene traveled with journalist Steve Hendricks and photographer Ivan from Outside Magazine in the Peruvian Amazon for this story.
Why Ecstasy Might Become Legal
Business Insider recently talked to Chris Kilham, a "medicine hunter" who travels the world searching for natural remedies through medicinal plant research.
Spirit Plant Medicine Conference
Watch Chris Kilham present The Shaman’s Pharmacy - Indigenous Psychedelic Pharmacology and The Big Wahoo - Psychedelic Unified Field Theory at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference in Vancouver, BC.
