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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Traditional Amazonian medicine revolves around the use of &#8220;master plants&#8221;. The term master plants refers to a specific group of age-old plants used both for their medicinal properties as well as for their &#8220;teaching&#8221; qualities. Ayahuasca, Tobacco, Coca and Datura are included in this group. The term teacher may seem absurd but it is perfectly justified. In the context of traditional medicine, the master plants directly address the individual and deliver messages in the form of visions (visual, auditory, sensitive, dreamlike, &#8230;). The visions they induce vary according to the cognitive material of each but the teaching remains substantially the [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>Traditional Amazonian medicine revolves around the use of &#8220;master plants&#8221;. The term master plants refers to a specific group of age-old plants used both for their medicinal properties as well as for their &#8220;teaching&#8221; qualities. Ayahuasca, Tobacco, Coca and Datura are included in this group. The term teacher may seem absurd but it is perfectly justified. In the context of traditional medicine, the master plants directly address the individual and deliver messages in the form of visions (visual, auditory, sensitive, dreamlike, &#8230;). The visions they induce vary according to the cognitive material of each but the teaching remains substantially the same. It is largely facilitated by the healer (curandero) who accompanies the patient in his process of care by sharing his medicine: a positive and complete sum, the fruit of thousands of years of connection with nature, knowledge many times shared and transmitted, whose goal is to change the consciousness and the relationship to the world.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Master Plants as Diet Plants</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1367" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dietplant-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Datura Brugmansia</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>If we try to imagine the family of Amazonian master plants, we could find in the center Ayahuasca, Tobacco, Coca, Datura, which we can call &#8220;visionary plants&#8221;, and around these plants the extended family represented by master plants. master plants such as Piñon Blanco (Jatropha Curcas L.) or Ajo Sacha (Mansoa alliacea) are also visionary plants with teaching and healing qualities, but to access the visionary world of their medicine it is necessary at the beginning to use Ayahuasca or Tobacco. The patient will have to follow a Diet process if he(she) wants to connect with it. Master plants are no less powerful plants used to treat different diseases, help to rebalance energy, help the healer to make a diagnosis, and provide the patient with the clairvoyance that was lacking. However, when the patient&#8217;s state of health is of concern, the healer will first prescribe a treatment consisting of one or more medicinal plants. The patient will not be able to drink Ayahuasca as long as his health is threatened, but he will receive care during ceremonies. Later, when his strength is back, he will be able to drink Ayahuasca and connect to a master plant, to begin a deeper work.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Master Plants and Ceremonies of Ayahuasca</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1370" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascaplant-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Shaman giving Ayahuasca</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>At a Ayahuasca ceremony, the healer will make a diagnosis of his patient and prescribe treatment. : <strong>the diet</strong>. The treatment may include one or more master plants and last longer or shorter depending on the purpose or complexity of the case to be treated. Supported by his <strong>icaros</strong> (sacred songs) and his knowledge, the healer will be able to identify the master plant that the patient will have to accompany the process of care. Once the master plant is identified, the healer opens the connection between the plant and the patient. By accumulating the energy of his master plant, the dietero (dieter) will gradually weave an intimate relationship with it, notably through the ceremonies of Ayahuasca, allowing him to feel better and to have visions of the spiritual world of his plant. Click on the following link to learn more about <strong><a href="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/diet/what-is-the-diet/">diets of master plants</a></strong>.</p>



<p>With regard to the master plants, we often hear that they modify or alter the consciousness. This is not correct. They have the capacity to change our perception of reality, the reality obviously remaining the same. This change in perspective highlights the shadows, it tells us the changes that must be made to bring love and unity back into our lives. On the other hand, it is the action of change that causes the modification of consciousness.</p>


<blockquote class='eckosc eckosc_quote eckosc_quote_blockquote'><p>« ...sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. »</p> <cite>— Matrix</cite></blockquote>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ayahuasca and Tobacco</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1377" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tabaco-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Shipibo shaman smoking tobacco pipe</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>One of he master plant most unknown but most consumed in the world is undoubtedly Tobacco.</strong>&nbsp;If we approach the subject of Tobacco it is not to open a polemic on its current use but to observe it from the angle of the traditional medicine of Ayahuasca. Tobacco, as everyone knows, has been used for millennia by Native American communities. Appreciated for its qualities of mediator and amplifier, it facilitates reflection and communication with the spirits. In the Amazon, it is also used a lot especially during ceremonies. It is common for a healer to smoke tobacco, either because he wants to amplify his visions, or because he blows tobacco smoke on his patients to treat them. The strong smell of tobacco can indeed help a patient to vomit or allow him to concentrate when the drunkenness of Ayahuasca (mareacion) has given way to confusion and panic. Of course, the use of tobacco is not limited to that. There are also healers who work exclusively with Tobacco (Tabaqueros). The&nbsp;<strong>Tobacco diet</strong>&nbsp;can be very effective in treating cases of tobacco addiction.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Master Plants commonly used in Peru</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1340" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango-250x167.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango-200x133.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango-100x67.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango-76x51.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chiric-sanango-50x33.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption>Chiric Sanango</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>Chiric Sanango (Brunflesia Grandiflora): </strong>A shrub with deep roots that grows naturally in the shade of dense Amazon forests. Its name means cold plant, because of the sensation of cold that it produces in the body after having ingested it. It actively works on the patient&#8217;s dreams. It is especially recommended for drug addicts, people with addictions, or those who lacked love during childhood. It is also prescribed by healers for elderly people with rheumatism and bone problems.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ajosacha-e1551206011989.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1338"/><figcaption>Ajo Sacha</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>Ajo Sacha&nbsp;(Mansoa alliacea):</strong>&nbsp;Means wild garlic. Liana has thick leaves with a strong smell of garlic. It is widely used for all types of infections, and develops immune defenses. Ajo Sacha is a fire plant, producing a feeling of heat and muscle pain. Ajo Sacha acts on both the body and the mind. It is particularly present in dreams and helps the patient eliminate trauma and fear. It activates self- confidence and helps to recover faith in life. According to the healers, this plant is recommendable for people with lung problems, smokers, and immuno-deficiency.</p>



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<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1334" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539-250x188.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539-200x150.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539-100x75.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539-76x57.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0539-50x38.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption>Piñon Blanco</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>Piñón Blanco&nbsp;(Jatropha Curcas L.):</strong>&nbsp;Tree with resinous leaves. Also produces seeds used as a purgative (see purge). It is prescribed in the case of patients looking for spiritual connection, loss of bearings or cut off from their feelings. It helps to connect with one&#8217;s soul and inner light, to soften angry and irascible temperaments, to facilitate the flow of energy through the chakras.</p>



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<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1335" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570-250x188.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570-200x150.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570-100x75.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570-76x57.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/IMG_0570-50x38.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption>Marosa</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>Marosa (Calathea allouia):&nbsp;</strong>a bushy plant recognized as the plant of the &#8220;heart&#8221;, it works on emotional wounds, trauma and sadness, cleaning up old memories that may include the genealogical line. This plant is suitable for depressed people. During a Diet, it fills one with joy and confidence and instills self-love. Allows refocusing on &#8220;oneself&#8221; and listening to one&#8217;s bodily feelings.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Master Plants and Perfumes</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="320" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1381" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes.jpg 320w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-300x234.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-250x195.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-200x156.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-100x78.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-76x59.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/perfumes-50x39.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" /><figcaption>Agua de Florida</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>In Traditional Amazonian medicine, smells have the power to influence our emotional state.</strong>&nbsp;This is corroborated by studies demonstrating the scenting action of essential oils on certain brain receptors. Like tobacco, healers also use different perfume scents to treat their patients. To influence odors, the healer uses the fragrance of fragrant plants on his patients in the manner of Tobacco by blowing it on the head, on the hands, or on the body. For the composition of a perfume, the healer uses a base of cologne (the most common being the&nbsp;<strong>Agua de Florida</strong>) in which he can add master plants according to their specificities. The perfumes carry a healthy and positive energy, able to guide serenely the patient in his experience. We know the enchanting power of perfume, but at a ceremony in Ayahuasca, when the senses are awakened, this power is increased tenfold. This proves to be a particularly effective medicine to cure sentimental disappointments and self-destructive patterns, but it must be handled with caution. We are talking here about specific types of perfume. It is also recommended to arrive at an Ayahuasca ceremony showered with a neutral smell (avoid conventional perfumes).</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>(Picture above) Credits Geens Archenti Flores In a good number of alternative medicines, the deterioration of the patient&#8217;s physiological state is originally caused by psychological or emotional disorders. For Amazonian medicine, the health of the body and mind is inseparable. The observation of physical symptoms, psychological and mental disorders, emotional state, is considered globally as a series of phenomena originating from energetic disorder. According to them, man is composed of energies that represent his animal condition, his mode of feeding, his social and emotional relations, his beliefs, &#8230; He represents an energetic sum that should be released, channeled, harmonized and [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>(Picture above) Credits <strong>Geens Archenti Flores</strong></p>



<p>In a good number of alternative medicines, the deterioration of the patient&#8217;s physiological state is originally caused by psychological or emotional disorders. For Amazonian medicine, the health of the body and mind is inseparable. The observation of physical symptoms, psychological and mental disorders, emotional state, is considered globally as a series of phenomena originating from energetic disorder. According to them, man is composed of energies that represent his animal condition, his mode of feeding, his social and emotional relations, his beliefs, &#8230; He represents an energetic sum that should be released, channeled, harmonized and aligned. Of course, their conceptions of the energies differ from the Western view. They obviously reflect their cultures and traditions, but they are mostly related to the symbolic frame of reference and the cognitive material that Ayahuasca brings them. </p>



<p>The visions it provides as we saw earlier in the <strong><a href="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/ayahuasca/ayahuasca-effects/">effects of ayahuasca</a></strong>, are diagnostic tools that have been used by these healers for thousands of years, this can also provide insight into the degree of affinity that these people have with this medicine. These communities hold an understanding and keys to reading a meaningful spiritual and sensory world that can guide the experienced traveler to the purpose of his journey. Thus one could say during an individual care for example, the healer will travel through his visions, unravel, clean and re-balance the &#8220;energies&#8221; affecting the individual, thanks to his experience and the energy of his icaros (sacred songs); which will result in a re-alignment of body and mind. The therapeutic effect on the physical and psychic body being the result of this energy balancing.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p><em>«&#8230;On the contrary, it must be admitted that there exist in the psyche things of which we know almost nothing, and which possess at least the same degree of reality as the things of the physical world, which we do not understand. more in the last analysis, but which affect our bodies in the most consequent way. No research claiming that his subject had no character or was &#8220;nothing&#8221; has never made any contribution to knowledge &#8230;» </em></p><cite><em>C.G. Jung</em></cite></blockquote></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Amazonian Medicine and Plants</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1417" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amazonians-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Healers harvesting Chacruna</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>In order to understand what traditional Amazonian medicine is, let us imagine what the <strong><a href="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/diet/master-plants/">master plants</a></strong> represent for the peoples of the Amazon basin. Ayahuasca is commonly called &#8220;la madre&#8221; (the mother), tobacco is considered by some as the father, and so on &#8230; <strong>It must be understood that the plants are perceived by the Amazonian peoples as parents of the spiritual world, with whom they can communicate. Inseparable from nature and the plants that surround them, they have managed to bond with it, and have shaped a whole medicinal science.</strong> If mythologies differ between communities, the plants they use and the relationships they have with them are much the same. This is largely due to inter-tribal fluvial exchanges, which have always been practiced. Without this &#8220;sharing&#8221; of knowledge and medicinal plants, traditional Amazonian medicine could not have developed and still be passed on today. This is an important point to keep in mind when trying to learn about this medicine.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Traditional Medicine of Ayahuasca</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1420" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ayahuascamedicine-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Preparation of Ayahuasca</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>The traditional medicinal use of &#8220;entheogenic&#8221; plants such as Ayahuasca leads the user to a modified state of consciousness. Entheogenic according to the Latin root &#8220;theos&#8221; &#8211; God, means to be converted into God inside, to be possessed by God, to feel God. In this sense, it allows us to reconnect with the soul that connects man to God. Ayahuasca makes it possible to touch with the finger what is sacred in the man. It revives the energy of life and awakens the divine part inherent to every human being. For the Amazonian people, the use of Ayahuasca is a way of living in full consciousness, like real human beings. Ayahuasca sublimates sensations, feelings, develops intuition, opens the doors of the imagination, and allows to enter a magico-religious spiritual world. For millennia, ancient indigenous cultures and their healers have been using this method of non additive trance without loss of lucidity, to treat various diseases, to question the world around them, to go to the root of problems and to recover health. The Ayahusca called &#8220;vine of death&#8221; is considered as &#8220;little death&#8221; because it leads us through a stage of destruction of the routines of life, vices, illusions of the ego, false beliefs, to then illuminate our consciousness, cut dependencies, heal relationships, in order to become strong and fully conscious.</p>



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</div><figcaption>Interview of a Shipibo healer speaking about Ayahuasca</figcaption></figure>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sacred Songs and Icaros</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1427" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/icaros-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Credits Juan Carlos Taminchi</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>The icaro (shamanic song) contains a feeling, a consciousness and the power to guide participants during the Ayahuasca ceremony in the abyss of visions. The icaro heals and guards the patient while in the trance during treatment. Each master plant has its own medicine and icaros. When the healer connects to the energy of his plants, he receives their healing power and melodies that he then channels into an energetic song: the icaro.</p>



<p>There are two types of icaros, icaros in human language and icaros in nonhuman language. The human icaros are sung in the languages of the native peoples: shipibo, quechua, ashaninca, machiguenga, &#8230; They are a legacy of melodies, techniques and knowledge transmitted by the healers from generation to generation. Non-human spiritual languages are a deep language composed of unintelligible sounds referring to sounds of nature accompanied by beautifull melodies that the curandero channels as a message full of feelings. These icaos have no translation in human language but have a great emotional impact and an undeniable therapeutic value.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/diomar-reverb.mp3"></audio><figcaption>Extract of an icaro sung by a shipibo healer</figcaption></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Diet</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1323" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/healing-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>The Diet</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>The notion of Diet as the Amazonian natives conceive it does not correspond to our definition in the West. Originally the native peoples began a &#8220;Diet&#8221; to cure diseases or to support the tribe by becoming healers or hunters, &#8230; The Diet is a method of learning how to connect to the energy of a plant to receive its strength, power and knowledge. For the hunter or the fisherman this allows him to develop his instincts, to conceal his smell, and to detect the presence of animals. The healer began an apprenticeship in order to receive the healing power of plants, their knowledge of remedies, and their icaros.</p>



<p>The diet consists mainly in the preparation and taking of one or more master plants administered in a precise dosage and prescribed for a period defined by the healer. It is accompanied by dietary and behavioral restrictions in order to provide a therapeutic environment that is beneficial to the healing or learning process. Click on the following link if you wish to learn more about <strong><a href="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/diet/what-is-the-diet/">diets of master plants</a></strong>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Purge</h3>



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<p>It is common before initiating a process of care (Ayahusca ceremony and Plant Diet) that the healer gives his patient a purgative. There are several such as&nbsp;<strong>Tobacco</strong>&nbsp;that will be prepared as a decoction, the seeds of&nbsp;<strong>Piñon blanco</strong>&nbsp;will be toasted and then ingested, the bulb of the&nbsp;<strong>Azucena</strong>&nbsp;crushed and diluted, etc &#8230; These plants are toxic, emetic and laxative and must be carefully dosed and administered by a competent healer. It is advisable to drink a lot of warm water so that the purge can be carried out in depth, always under the supervision of the healer.</p>



<p>Traditional Amazonian medicine considers the treatment of a patient from these different angles: physiological, psychological, emotional, energetic &#8230; The purge represents an essential phase in the healing process because it acts on all these aspects both aimed at unloading the patient, cleansing and releasing the body to prepare for the Ayahuasca ceremony and allowing the plants to work in depth. At the end of the purge, the patient may still need some cleansing. Thanks to the Ayahuasca known for its purgative properties, the cleansing may possibly continue during ceremonies.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p><em>« Men sana en corpore sano&nbsp;. A healthy mind in a healthy body. »</em></p><cite>Juvenal</cite></blockquote></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Flower baths and Steam baths</h3>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/flowerbath2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1449" width="300" height="310"/><figcaption>Flower Bath</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>To help the patient in his process, the healer will administer healing in the form of <strong>flower baths</strong>. These are composed of master plants (it can be leaves or fragrant flowers) and sometimes colognes (ex:&nbsp;<strong>Agua de Florida</strong>). It is advisable <strong>not to rinse</strong> after bathing with the flowerbath so that the energy of the plants penetrates deeply into the patient&#8217;s body. Flower baths are used quite frequently before the Ayahuasca ceremonies to calm the mind and prepare the body to receive healing energy. Finally, let&#8217;s not forget that Ayahuasca is a gateway to the spiritual world of plants. Just as man is sensitive to nice smells, so are plants!</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="342" height="250" src="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1443" srcset="https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath.jpg 342w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-300x219.jpg 300w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-250x183.jpg 250w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-200x146.jpg 200w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-100x73.jpg 100w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-76x56.jpg 76w, https://ayahuasca-retreats.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/steambath-50x37.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px" /><figcaption>Traditional steam bath</figcaption></figure></div>



<p><strong>Steam baths</strong> are also part of the care of healers. Composed of boiled plants, the steam bath will penetrate the body in depth and cause sweating, to eliminate toxins from the body. Steam baths have been practiced all over the world, whether in huts or hamams. They are mainly used in case of fever, broncopulmonary infections, osteoarthritis, muscular pains, febrile states, etc &#8230; to evacuate the cold airs retained in the body.</p>
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