Amazon traditional Diet with medicinal plants
Nevertheless the particularly valued qualities of the Ayahuasca as a spirit medicine, numerous other plants (not necessary hallucinogenic) are used in the Shamanic Medicine tradition of the Amazon jungle and are also considered the “teacher plants”. That is because similarly like with Ayahuasca a person receives the healing and insights during the treatment with the medicinal plants. The form of the treatment is called the Diet (la dieta).
The shortest Amazon Diet lasts 10 days (8 days of the diet and 2 days for the preparation) and can be up to one month or more depending from the patient’s needs and the gravity of the disease. During the Diet the patient takes one or more medicinal remedies made from the fresh jungle plants by a competent native curandero (healer) of the Amazon jungle.
In the period of Diet the patient abstains from a list of heavy foods (red meat, fat and oils, sugar, salt and spices, alcohol, eggs etc), sexual activity and certain modern distractions. Some of the restrictions (like sugar) are necessary to follow one to two weeks after the diet. The Ayahuasca is usually taken during the Diet to facilitate its efficiency. A dedication and patience isnecessary for the efficiency of the treatment.
The Diet is very effective for a proper, natural healing of the diseases. Maintaining the clean body and mind, staying light on the food and cleansing with the medicinal plants creates the optimal conditions for treating the disease, shall it be arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, kidney problems, hepatitis or even some which were declined by the modern medicine as “non-treatable”.
Besides being used as a treatment of an already manifest disease, the Diet serves for reinforcement of the health in general, since the purification of the whole body-mind is always present. That’s why this medicine practice is the basis for the traditional Shamanic apprenticeship. The Amazon Medicine Plant's Diet strengthens and rejuvenates all the body and the nervous system. It can also help a practitioner to discover subtle psychoenergetic qualities what is basically a part of the Shamanic healing apprenticeship.
The treatments are guided by an expert curandero (healer) Don Edilberto Vargas from the Iquitos with more than 20 years experience in the field of traditional medicine. Diets are done in the the special Diet centre with the proper set and environment for healing.
