Ayahuasca Origins...

The ayahuasca ancestral medical practice is native to the amazon rainforest and currently used as a healing and religious tradition by more than 75 different ethnic groups in Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil and Perú, each one with different cosmovision and ways of preparation and application, but sharing many similarities.

Ayahuasca Healing...

The ayahuasca is specially known for its healing properties in different health conditions but especially in emotional diseases and traumas like depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, addiction and others related illnesses, so is becoming a matter of study for many researchers in those fields and being applied in rehab centers and other western medical facilities as central treatment or as a part of the process for others medical practices.

Ayahuasca is also known as a “the purge” and can produce temporary vomiting and diarrhea as part of the healing process.

Ayahuasca shows its potential as a powerful healing tool to solve traumas from the past, allowing to enter in the subconscious, releasing memories and emotions otherwise blocked, allowing to break patterns conditioned by these, improving the relations with our family, friends, and our environment as result, also giving a deeper understanding of ourselves and helping to improve in many areas from nutrition and self care to the emotional and professional areas, helping to recover the physical, psychological and spiritual balance.

With the right support and guidance of a shaman (medicine man or woman) during the process ayahuasca can produce deep transformational experiences that are the responsible of the big interest in this ancestral medicine in the indigenous context.

The ayahuasca can lead to spiritual experiences and this is part of the link between the religious connotations in many different ancient and modern cultures as a connection to what is perceived as sacred by different religions and beliefs.

Ayahuasca religiously...

Ayahuasca in the indigenous context is a sacred practice and a central cosmovision element of many cultures from the rainforest with different names,variations and espiritual pratices, ayahuasca is considered a healer plant, a teacher plant and a sacred plant that connects with the spirits of the animals and plants and other divine beings in their cosmovision to help them in healing, diagnose and divinatory rituals.

It was adopted and became central part of others modern religious practices mixed with older religious elements,an example of this sincretism is the Santo Daime in Brazil with elements of Judeo-Christian iconography and other newly forms of neo-shamanism and new age practices with eastern influence and inspiration and syncretism originated in the Western society.

People with different beliefs, philosophies and religions usually find a connection with what is perceived by spiritual according to the elements present in their own spiritual, religious or philosophical practices, from naturalism and animism to ideo-christian or mixed eastern beliefs, the strong spiritual connection thorough the ayahuasca is clearly present whereas the beliefs of the people is.

Ayahuasca is not...

Ayahuasca is not a miracle cure that heals everything in one night, in some cases must be use with special care, in some others is not recommended and in some specific cases is definitely not indicated, due to the modern medications and health conditions a treatment should be supervised by an expert curandero or maestro with knowledge and with counseling about modern western medical conditions and proper consultation prior to the ceremony, this is part of the challenge of the ayahuasca arrival to modern western society.