Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest

Dealing with http://www.ayahuascahealings.com shipibo ayahuasca retreat instructor vegetation is known as the 'shaman's diet'. The aim with the diet plan should be to put together the body and nervous procedure for that strong know-how and enlargement of consciousness supplied by instructor crops.

In daily life, the head makes the illusion that we are different from truth, and therefore protects us, just like a veil, from going through the vastness in the universe. Usage of the reality without having preparing may very well be a radical shock into the system.

It provides a big challenge for your rational Western mind to come back to conditions with all the teacher crops, and also a leap of creativity is needed to incorporate the 'other' consciousness of the plant. The magical earth to which we have been transported by vegetation is just not accessible by way of the verbal rational head but by aspiration language or an expansion of the creativeness. Hence goals & our imaginative powers act like doorways during a plant food plan and connect us while using the plant spirit.

Some with the Medicinal Crops of your Amazon Rainforest.

o Mocura; taken orally or used in floral baths to raise energy, or take you out of a saladera (a run of bad luck, inertia, sense of not living to your full). This plant gives mental strength and you can feel its effects as also with ajosacha, both are varieties of garlic and have a penetrating aroma. Mental strength means it could possibly be good to counter shyness, find one's personal value or authority. Medicinal properties include asthma, bronchitis, reduction of fat and cholesterol. Another of its properties is that it burns of excess fat.

o Piñon Colorado; this plant has short lived effect after drinking but helps dreaming later on when you go to sleep. Piñon Colorado can also be worked with as a planta maestra (trainer plant). Medicinal properties include dealing with Insect bites and stings, vaginal infections, and bronchitis. It is possible to take the resin which is much stronger but toxic if too much ingested. The resin can be applied directly on the skin.

o Chirisanango; this plant is good for colds and arthritis and has the effect of heating up the body, so much so that the maestro advises a cold shower after each dose! This plant can be used in baths for good luck, and bring success to fishing, hunting etc. This planta maestra also makes possible for people to open up their heart to feel love for people and animals, and identify with other people as though brothers and sisters.

It grows mainly in the Upper Amazon and only a few restingas (high ground which never floods) in the Lower Amazon. The shamans say that vegetation connect us with nature because they take their nourishment directly from the earth, as well as the sun's rays, the air. They allow us to know and recognize ourselves. A shaman must know this and must love his people to heal them. The gift of Chirisanango is self esteem i.e the ability to recognise ourselves.

The shamans say that this plant opens up the shamanic path, assuming that we have been prepared to live under the rules of shamanism, to do this we need courage and no fear of extremes or negative & challenging circumstances. We need to understand what role we will play in society and have the heart of a warrior.

o Guayusa; It is good for excessive acidity and other problems in the stomach and bile. Also it is both energizing and relaxing at the same time and develops mental strength. This also has the most interesting effect of giving lucid desires i.e when you are dreaming you are aware that you are dreaming. The plant is also generally known as the "watchman's plant", as even when sleeping you are aware in the outer physical surroundings.

On another personal note, I found the experience with this plant also to be quite incredible. I found that the usual boundary between sleeping and being awake to be more fluid than I had anticipated. Even now, sometime after taking the plant my desires are more colourful, richer, and lucid than before. For those interested in 'dreaming' this is certainly the plant to explore.