Healing body and soul
Why the plants do not work if you live like you did last month If a curandero you trust has booked you for ayahuasca, mapacho or San Pedro, and then handed you a list of things you may not eat, drink, or do — that list is the work. The ceremony is one night. The […]
Western acute care is excellent at a crushed pelvis and a hot appendix. It is average at the twenty-year diseases we build with chairs, sugar, and sleeplessness. Amazonian plants will not “beat” that sentence. They are one of the older toolkits for living with a body that has been failing slowly. I will not use […]
Cat’s claw, sangre de drago, and lapacho show lab activity against tumor cells. That is not the same as healing cancer. What the plants, the papers, and Amazonian practice actually support.
Ayahuasca is not “a psychedelic” in the way a festival means it. It is a boiled marriage of two plants, a legal headache, and a ceremony that can go very wrong if you lie about your medicine cabinet. The brew The vine is Banisteriopsis caapi — harmine, harmaline, tetrahydroharmine. The leaf is usually Psychotria viridis […]
I was taught that a body can be clean and a person still sick. The old pages on this site said that with too much mist. I will say it shorter. Amazonian work treats illness as a knot: food, fear, a fight in the family, a plant that was never dieted, a dead person who […]
