Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Crops of your Amazon Rainforest

Working with http://ayahuascahealings.com ayahuasca centers trainer plants is known as the 'shaman's diet'. The purpose from the diet regime would be to prepare your body and nervous system for the effective expertise and expansion of consciousness provided by instructor plants.

In daily life, the head results in the illusion that we have been independent from fact, and so shields us, just like a veil, from experiencing the vastness in the universe. Use of the reality with no preparing can be a radical shock for the process.

It provides a significant problem for the rational Western head to come back to terms with the teacher crops, along with a leap of creativeness is required to include the 'other' consciousness from the plant. The magical world to which we have been transported by vegetation will not be accessible by the verbal rational brain but by means of aspiration language or an expansion from the creativity. Consequently desires & our imaginative powers act like doorways during a plant diet regime and connect us using the plant spirit.

Some on 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 on 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 might 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 to your skin.

o Chirisanango; this plant is good for colds and arthritis and has the effect of heating up the human 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 plants connect us with nature because they take their nourishment directly from the earth, as well since 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're 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 referred to 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 dreams are more colourful, richer, and lucid than before. For those interested in 'dreaming' this is certainly the plant to explore.