Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Crops from the Amazon Rainforest

Dealing with http://ayahuascahealings.com iowaska teacher crops is known as the 'shaman's diet'. The purpose on the diet program is usually to put together your body and anxious process for your strong awareness and growth of consciousness given by instructor plants.

In daily life, the mind makes the illusion that we've been separate from actuality, and therefore guards us, like a veil, from going through the vastness from the universe. Access to the truth with no planning may very well be a radical shock on the system.

It offers a big obstacle for your rational Western mind to come to conditions together with the teacher vegetation, along with a leap of imagination is necessary to include the 'other' consciousness with the plant. The magical entire world to which we've been transported by vegetation just isn't accessible by way of the verbal rational intellect but by desire language or an growth from the imagination. Therefore goals & our imaginative powers act like doorways during a plant diet and connect us along with the plant spirit.

Some with the Medicinal Plants in the 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 into the 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 may 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 (instructor 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 to your 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 crops 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 dreams i.e when you are dreaming you are aware that you are dreaming. The plant is also known as the "watchman's plant", as even when sleeping you are aware on 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 goals are more colourful, richer, and lucid than before. For those interested in 'dreaming' this is certainly the plant to explore.