Editing Enema (section)

=== Religious rituals ===

All across [[Mesoamerica]] ritual enemas were employed to consume psychoactive substances, e.g., [[balché]], [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]], [[tobacco]], [[peyote]], and other [[Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants|hallucinogenic drugs]] and [[entheogen]]s, most notably by the [[Maya civilization|Maya]], thus attaining more intense trance states more quickly. Mayan classic-period sculpture and ceramics depict hallucinogenic enemas used in rituals.<ref name=Hallucinogenic_pre-Columbian/> Some tribes continue the practice today.<ref name="isbn0-06-084550-3">{{cite book|last=Diamond |first=Jared M.|title=The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)|url=https://archive.org/details/thirdchimpanzee00jare_0|url-access=registration|publisher=Harper Perennial|location=New York, N.Y.|year=1992|page=432|isbn=978-0-06-084550-6}}; pp. 201</ref>

With historical roots in the [[Indian subcontinent]], enemas in [[Ayurveda]], called [[Basti (Panchakarma)|Basti]] or Vasti, form part of [[Panchakarma]] procedure in which [[Herbalism|herbal medicines]] are introduced rectally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chakrapaniayurveda.com/basti/|title=Basti: Medicated Enema Therapy}}</ref>