About the School of Indigenous Medicine
Kusy Hampina

We offer a space to explore traditional medicinal plants and their uses. We have several services and proposals focused on holistic health and community approaches to wellness, often incorporating traditional practices and knowledge.

We are a community of medicine, indigenous culture, a place of dialogue, encounter and healing where we practice indigenous medicine, we offer sessions of physical and mental medicine with a holistic approach and focused on the person and healing trauma with an approach of holistic wellness for the mind, body and spirit. Escuela de Medicina Indígena is a physical and virtual space that offers you the opportunity to explore the benefits of the ancestral medicine of Peru and also learn from them. We have a variety of services, from indigenous pharmacies, ancestral and modern medical consultation, psychological therapy, retreats and sessions with indigenous ancestral sages of various traditions such as Quechua, Aymara, Shipibo Konibo.
Kusy Hampina Wasy is the first alternative medicine center in the community that you can enjoy, as well as a naturopathic pharmacy stocked with wellness products, including a traditional Quechua apothecary with over 100 coca leaf products, among other traditional herbs to heal your physical, mental and spiritual bodies.

The center also includes a Tropical Disease Study Center, an archeological site where you can pray for healing. Take home all kinds of natural remedies such as ointments, teas, oils, patches and herbal compounds prepared according to ancient indigenous wisdom.

Our School of Indigenous Medicine offers a space to explore traditional medicinal plants, traditional medicine apothecary, sacred plant sessions, classes, retreats and their uses. In addition, here you can purchase a space for one of our retreats or sacred plant sessions, using various examples of indigenous medicine that focus on holistic health and community approaches to wellness, often incorporating traditional practices and knowledge.

Humanitarian physician with more than 30 years of experience in public health, infectious diseases and epidemiology, specialized in the protection of vulnerable populations in humanitarian crises.

He has led and evaluated health, migration and child protection programs in Latin America, Africa and Oceania, collaborating with IOM, UN, USAID and Doctors Without Borders.

Selene Manga

Medical epidemiologist and researcher of ancestral plants

Selene Manga M.D. - BIO 

Latin American indigenous physician, specialist in infectious diseases, epidemiologist and award-winning scientific researcher for key research, with more than 45 published scientific papers. Since 2017 she has been working for Doctors Without Borders in highly complex humanitarian contexts. She specialized in International Health at Harvard University.

She currently serves on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council of Doctors Without Borders in the New York, USA office.

Traditional healer.

She has a lifetime and intergenerational experience in traditional medicine. She comes from an ancient tradition of women healers who practice traditional medicine of Quechua origin. She is the executive director and founder of Green Hospital (in Quechua: Kusy Hampina Wasy), an indigenous community medicine school and Indigenous Medicine Center located in Quillabamba, La Convención, Cusco.

An experienced healer and practitioner, she represents several generations within the knowledge system of indigenous peoples, preserving indigenous, subterranean and astral memory, while maintaining the atavistic and timeless medical practice of entheogenic medicine, through the use of sacred plants that induce altered states of consciousness to improve aspects of physical health. He has used willka, wachuma y psilocybin for 35 years in her practice as a traditional physician, with several dozen patients treated and cured of neurological, autoimmune, degenerative and psychological diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, lupus, fibromyalgia, ALS, major depression, bipolar disorder, among others.

She holds three important recent certifications: a postgraduate degree in International Health from Harvard University, a certificate as a licensed psilocybin facilitator from the Oregon Health Authority (USA), and a diploma from the Medical Cannabis Research Center (CMCR).