Palm thatched tambos on stilts surround an Ayahuasca medicine Healing Center in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest near Iquitos
Palm thatched tambos on stilts surround an Ayahuasca Healing Center in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. Early morning mist shrouds the surrounding trees, obscuring the jungle canopy. This alternative treatment center specializes in the Shipibo Conibo tradition of Ayahuasca shamanism, or curanderismo. Patients come to Peru for treatment of mental physical and spiritual diseases that western medicine cannot treat, but the indigenous vegetalistas and shamans use their ancestral plant medicine practices based around the hallucinogenic and visionary brew also known as yage, made from two plants; the ayahuasca vine banisteriopsis Caapi and a bush called chacruna or psychotria viridis. Shipibo medicine and culture is growing in international popularity as something of a phenomenon, where healing miracles are commonplace, as well as the notions of sorcery and brujeria. Inkan Kena is a healing center in the jungle between Iquitos and Nauta, and is run by a family of curanderos with an extensive lineage of plant based shamanism.
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Location: Amazon Rainforest, Iquitos, Nauta, Maynas, Loreto, Peru, South America
Photo credit: © Brian Van Tighem / Alamy / Afripics
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