Glossary: Psychedelic Medicine
Land-Based Healing
Healing practices that foster physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural well-being through direct relationships with traditional territories, ecosystems, ceremony, harvesting, and Indigenous ecological knowledge.
Licensure
Legal authorization granted by a regulatory authority permitting an individual to practice a licensed profession.
LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)
A potent, long-acting classic psychedelic synthesized from lysergic acid, originally derived from ergot fungus. LSD acts primarily as a partial agonist at 5-HT2A receptors and produces profound changes in perception, cognition, emotion, and self-awareness.






