Plant Medicines: Nature's Healing Elixirs
An estimated 88% of the world’s population employs herbs as primary medicines and while drugstore shelves in the western world are stocked mostly with synthetic remedies, in other parts of the world the situation is quite different.
Many physical symptoms and diseases that we encounter are linked to our mental and emotional state, which in turn are linked to our spiritual state. In its most basic form of understanding, our spiritual state is that of being and feeling calm and at peace, when this is out of balance, then the mind and emotions become imbalanced, and the physical body tries to show us by creating physical conditions, and so we must give importance to this method of looking at ourselves.
The Grandmother
The Grandmother is a revered and respected sacred medicine, she is considered a spiritual and physiological remedy for all purposes. This is because this medicine can instruct in healing, can give visionary insight, and aid in the remedy of psychological imbalances. For indigenous people, The Grandmother is “the mother of all medicines”.
The Grandmother is without a doubt one of the most magical, life transforming, humbling medicines you will experience because she (The Spirit) has a way of knowing you, she has a way of showing you, she has a way of letting you look in the mirror, and as daunting as that can sound, she does it in a loving, honest and truthful way.
The Grandmother Tea is a medicine that once consumed will help you to raise your vibration and in turn, you will have access to healing on a multidimensional level and help you to find YOU in your life.
The Grandfather
The Grandfather has a history of use spanning over 300 centuries in traditional Andean culture and has been used to cure emotional, spiritual, physical and mental conditions, as well as to treat addiction.
This spirit of this medicine has a Grandfather like energy and is a teacher of great compassion and understanding. It shows us how to live in balance and harmony; how to love, respect, and honour all living beings. It teaches us the correct attitude, a moderate approach, and a harmonious relationship to the physical and spiritual worlds.
It connects us to the natural energies of mother earth and opens up and clears our energy centres, and in doing so, allows us to let go of energetically blocks and un-digested emotions, It helps to restore balance to our mind, body, soul and not forgetting our hearts.
Tobacco
Tobacco is one of the most misused and misunderstood plant medicines in western society today. Tobacco originally was and still is used in shamanic practices, rituals and ceremonies and this is where you will find its origin. Shamans in The Americas have used tobacco in ceremony for thousands of years, even as early as 5000BC.
Within tribal use, it has always been revered, for its healing and protection qualities, and to ward off evil spirits or negative energy. It has and still is greatly respected for its strength in conveying intentions, messages, and prayers to the Creator within its smoke and to be used in a very conscious manner.
We must take time to celebrate tobacco, we must take time to make it a ceremony with clear thought and intention and without mobile phones in our hands, and to understand the pure consciousness, the light of real, natural, organic, unmodified tobacco, as used in ceremonies for thousands of years.
Hapé
Hapé (ha-pay) or Rapé (ra-pay) is a preparation of powdered tobacco which usually contains other herbs and plants within it.
Hapé is a strong medicine that requires intention and prayer. Permission should be sought and gratitude given from the spirit of mother nature, tobacco and the plants contained within the Hapé.
It will help to release negative energies within or around you, it will open your energy centres (Chakra’s), it will allow you to feel a circle of energy around you too.
It can have a very emotionally calming and relaxing effect and can be instrumental in releasing you from many modern day ailments.
As it works on the nervous system too, you may want to lie down after receiving Hapé into a complete state of surrender and allow its spirit to heal, to show, to guide.
Kambo
Kambo is a toxic secretion from the Green Tree frog. Its name in the Amazonas is Kambo, Sapo or Kampu. It is used to heal illnesses, remove toxins from the body and to boost the immune system.
It also works on an emotional level where participants often are aware of certain emotional negativity they face in the most pinnacle moments during a Kambo session, therefore, it can be quite an emotionally freeing process and you can expect to laugh or even cry through a Kambo session.
As we tend to store emotion in our stomach area and this also being where the toxins will accumulate before being purged, many participants feel that a significant weight is being lifted out from their stomachs, from their being and their lives.
Kambo also works on a quantum level cleaning blockages and negative energies in your aura and energetic fields.
