Project of Medicinal garden in the Shipibo community of Dinamarca
When one thinks of the Amazonian pharmacopoeia, we imagine a native sinking deep into the forest for a few hours to fetch the medicinal plant in order to heal his family. This is far from the case and it is rarely so. When we...
Ivan Popov: from neurosurgery to shamanism
I have had the pleasure of knowing Ivan for a few years now. I could see his arrival in the world of ayahuasqueros, his great thirst for knowledge and his rapid progress in the practice of this ancestral medicine. Of course there...
Ayahuasca Ceremony
The drink of Ayahuasca is consumed traditionally as part of a ceremony. The various indigenous communities of Amazonia drink it during a collective ritual. It is a way for these communities to unite and purify as a group with the...
Traditional Amazonian Medicine
(Picture above) Credits Geens Archenti Flores In a good number of alternative medicines, the deterioration of the patient’s physiological state is originally caused by psychological or emotional disorders. For Amazonian...