the traditional use of mapacho tobacco in the amazonian medicine

  Traditional use of mapacho tobacco

Tobacco is considered in traditional Amazonian medicine as the master plant of first importance. There is a hierarchy within the master plants, the Tobacco is considered as the father and the Ayahuasca the mother. From a thousand years ago the Indians use it for their purposes Medicines but also to get in touch with the spirit world (to cure a sick person, know if the hunt will be good, know the weather.). In indigenous communities, tobacco was forbidden to ordinary people because it could kill. At the beginning this plant was only used by shamans or priests as a ceremonial plant. Those who used Tobacco were called "the one who eats the Tobacco" (Ashaninka) because it was considered as a food for the spirit or also "the one who blows the Tobacco" (Aguarunas). That is to say: he who is able to blow the Tobacco because this healer has the habilitation and acquired a sufficient degree of control of the powers of the Tobacco to be able to administer it. Managing Tobacco needs great psychic, physical and spiritual control.

If the management of tobacco is poorly done, the spirit of tobacco is desecrated and will invest the human being the point of practically possessing him. Common use spread with the arrival of Westerners A shaman Guajiro explained to ethnologist Michel Perrin that the powers of writing were comparable to those of Tobacco. The indigenous think that the Tobacco allows to receive and decode messages coming from the other world, function that they attribute, to reading for Whites. It is the matter to which a word would be coupled.

Traditionally, there are two main uses of tobacco

First with a lower dose:

For popular phytotherapeutic uses and manifestations of

ritual character as a council of war or the arrival of an important person.

Second with massive dose:

the search is intoxication with the goal of entering into

trance, in narcoleptic state and rubbing with death (cardiac arrest).

This state is used in cases of divination, healing and initiation (reaching the limit of your being and living a symbolic death).

In many South American indigenous traditions we find the absorption in massive doses of Tobacco,

in cases of rites of passage (to adulthood for example). The young man fell into a state of near death and if he resisted, he could see his vocation (...)

During the initiation, the natural-supernatural duality is obtained, when the participant dies as a natural man and is reborn as a person having forces from the other world.

Tobacco ingestion methods are varied and interesting since Tobacco has so much power in its symbolic function, that it covers the entire axis of the most material (solid form, then liquid) to the most aerial (smoke) -

Gastrointestinal: Tobacco chewed, licked, drunk or in the form of enema.

The habit of chewed tobacco is quite developed from eastern Venezuela to northern Colombia and

of the Upper Amazon. "The Indians prepare the Tobacco in 10 cm wide rolls of green tobacco, and sometimes they scatter ashes or salt over the wet leaves, mixing them with some kind of earth or honey.

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This also said that the snuff helps invoke the power of other herbs. The natives talk about other "spirits" of plants sympathizing with the spirit of Snuff. Anyone who participates in the ceremony of Ayahuasca, for example, you can see the healer  smoking snuff and often participates in the ritual of smoking among all members . The healer believes that spirits of the plants are helped by the snuff. Snuff can clear the ceremonial space energies and allow the healer to enter a space where healing can occur. On a scientific level, this could be explained as the snuff contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) that help dimethyltryptamine (DMT) thatthe  ayahuasca brew is effective. Hence the snuff can significantly increase the experience of Ayahuasca ceremony.

Snuff also be ground into a fine powder and is inhaled . This was actually the most common way of taking snuff between the Americans and the European newcomers. The snuff can be taken pure or mixed with other plants to produce the desired results. The snuff is often applied using a long tube in which a person blows the nose snuff another. A common name for this snuff is RAPE. Taken this way, the snuff has the effect of purging the nostrils, releasing mucus and phlegm, and also tends to focus on its recipient, clearing the mindAnother way for experience snuff, and / or far the most powerful one , is when a  BREW similar to tea is mixed with Snuff and is consume drinking it . When we speak of snuff and medicine, as a teacher, and their ability to cure the disease, this is the way it has more power. The drink is a very powerful and very effective purgative  cleaning the bowel , blood and body, including parasites, viruses and bacterias .Moreover, in the mental / emotional level, the snuff has a clarifying and centralizing effect. When people drink often speak with great clarity. Unlike other powerful plants such as ayahuasca, which often tends to move people to other states of consciousness, snuff, taken in this way, leaves one feeling very present and connected to mother earth with a very Strong clarity and understanding of the nature of life and of itself. Participating in a ceremony snuff it is considered by many tribes to be the most powerful way to learn the world of plants. The snuff is considered the grand master and the greatest healer. Like any master plant , it should be taken only with someone who has experience in working in this because the effects can be potentially dangerous if not administered correctly.

Snuff has become a very maligned plant. Unfortunately, when we speak of snuff which often are referred to cigarettes. Cigarettes are usually made with snuff leaves of very low quality. Snuff leaves are often grown with a lot of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Cigarettes also typically contain about 70% of snuff, leaving an additional 30% chemical. In fact, the standard cigarette has over 600 chemicals added to it. When are burned, the 600 are now 4000. Many of the chemicals found in cigarettes are known carcinogens, substances known to cause cancer. The snuff has been used medicinally for thousands of years. His sacred and medicinal properties have been used to learn and heal many indigenous peoples over time. Pure Snuff, natural snuff, as mapacho was never associated with the disease; on the contrary, it is associated with sanctuary , divine, learning and healing.

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