On the Job: Medicine Man

More than four billion people use plants as medicine. Chris Kilham wants that number higher. In his role as a medicine hunter, he travels to the planet's farthest regions, investigating nature's most potent botanical drugs and scoping ways for companies to bring them to market. And if he has to walk on some hot coals along the way, so be it...

“On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca [a psychedelic Amazonian brew] is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.” – Chris Kilham, in Psychology Today