In this paper we present five objects (three textiles and two paintings) from ShipiboKonibo origin that are part of the Collection Ethnomedicine, Unit Ethnomedicine and International Health, Medical University of Vienna. First we describe the techniques and contexts wherein the three embroidered textiles were made. Then we analyze the contents of the two paintings as explained by the painters. Both textile patterns and painting contents are presented as connected to indigenous medical concepts and to the immanent healing songs. Many anthropologists interpret the patterns to show visions obtained by ingesting the hallucinogenic plant drug ayawaska (a decoction that mainly consists of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis). Ayawaska thus is seen as the foundation of these artistic and medical ideas and methods. In a second part we analyze into which extent the assumption can be held that art, music, ayawaska and indigenous medicine are so intensely connected. It appears that historically no such connection is evident. Probably through the reinterpretation of suggestions by Western researchers and the following mass tourism mainly aimed at the ayawaska drinking practice, Shipibo-Konibo people started to present a “more interesting” medicine to the visitors by merging art, music and plant drugs into an “aesthetic therapy” as described by various authors.