Psychedelic using population might be overall more health conscious to begin with, and/or psychedelics might have an overall effect of making people more health conscious. Plant/mushroom based psychedelics, that is. I am a health freak for one.
Also, the direct, diverse physical health benefits of ayahuasca and rue analogues are pretty well known.
The consciousness of plants is a constant source of information for medicine, alimentation, and art, and an example of the intelligence and creative imagination of nature. Much of my education I owe to the intelligence of these great teachers. Thus I consider myself to be the “representative” of plants, and for this reason I assert that if they cut down the trees and burn what’s left of the rainforests, it is the same as burning a whole library of books without ever having read them.
~ Pablo Amaringo