Sacred Medicines

Traditional Amazonian medicines with "sacred plants" are a medicine of purging, of detoxification of the physical and energetic body. They strip the inside of the body, but also the history, the communication systems, our perception of the universe and the soul.

They are perfectly suited to drug addicts, but also to anyone "intoxicated" by the residues of their history, all addictions can be considered as residues of history.

This form of ancestral therapy and Western psychotherapy can complement each other on several points.

From my point of view, here is what traditional therapies with sacred plants can bring to Western therapies:

Physiological purification which involves a real cleansing of the body, which is also a purification of the entire being, of the psychosomatic unity. We are then in a completely holistic perspective.

This broadening of the field of consciousness would allow us to move from the notion of the unconscious to the notion of organismic and cellular memories. Sacred plants awaken even memories inscribed in DNA, a hypothesis developed by certain scientists and by Jeremy Narby in his work The Cosmic Serpent, and which can give a considerable opening to the notion of the unconscious.

Ayahuasca amplifies and teaches. It is considered a “master” plant, which in traditional logic means that its “spirit” acts as a therapist or a master.

Finally, this type of therapy allows to make the link between the physiological, the psychological and the spiritual while safeguarding the unity of the three levels. It is a transpersonal therapy that reveals to the human being his link with the spirit and allows him to find a meaning to his life and his history.

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Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive herbal drink. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon have traditionally used it for centuries for spiritual and medicinal purposes in shamanic rituals.

The name ayahuasca comes from the Quechua “aya” meaning spirit and “huasca” meaning vine, generally translated as vine of the soul.

Rapé (Tobacco)

Rapé is a sacred ritual medicine to pray to the spirit of tobacco and set intentions for one’s life. It is a fine powder, composed of tobacco, plants, tree ashes and Amazonian seeds, which is blown into the nostrils to promote cleansing, grounding and spiritual connection.

Sananga

For the indigenous people, Sananga is used as an eye drop to sharpen their night vision and concentration when hunting in the dark of the jungle. For the rest of the world, Sananga is used for its powerful potential: It treats and prevents eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, myopia, astigmatism and blindness. It detoxifies the body. It increases visual capacity and improves color perception.

Kambô

Kambo is a venom from a giant Amazonian frog called "Phyllomedusa bicolor" which has the particularity, if administered in a few drops on a part of the skin cleared of its epidermis, to cause a very strong elimination effect: sweating, vomiting, potentially diarrhea. It is a real high purge that lasts about 30 minutes, sometimes less and sometimes more (a little over an hour) depending on the receptivity of the subject and the dose of venom used.

This "detox" which is mainly intended to be hepatic, by literally poisoning, allows a fairly deep cleansing of the liver which gives way to a feeling of lightness known to fasters and people practicing castor oil purges.