Amazon healing retreat (Diet) with medicine plants

In the Amazon jungle the retreats with the shamanic healing plants are the traditional way to treat different kinds of health issues, used in general for cleansing the body, clarifying the mind and strengthening the spirit.

The  healing Diet is a retreat to discover  and open one’s own  healing capacities, realized by connecting with the energy of the jungle medicine plants. The retreat is marked by slightly strict rules regarding food and the activities during the Diet and implies taking the special remedies in such a way facilitating the physical and spiritual recovery.

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 “teacher plants”. That is because similarly like with Ayahuasca a person receives the healing and insights during the treatment with the medicine 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 social activity. Some of the restrictions (like sugar) are necessary to follow one to two weeks after the diet.

All the treatments during the Diet are guided by an expert curandero (healer) Don Edilberto Vargas living in a little village, 6 hours by the boat from the Peruvian “jungle capital”, Iquitos. He has more than 20 years expertise in the field of traditional medicine. For the Diets Done Edilberto’s family humbly offer their simple house with protected environment for this sensitive work.

The purpose of the Diet

The Diet is very effective for a proper, natural healing of the diseases. Staying physically and spiritually relaxed, in connection with the nature, taking light food and medicine plants, creates the optimal conditions for returning the natural equilibrium in the body and mind. The Amazon Medicine Plant’s Diet works on many levels of human organism like nervous, articular, circulatory and immune systems. These healing plants are known to help to treat diseases like arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, kidney problems, hepatitis or help to solve the problems where the conventional methods usually didn’t have success.

Besides being used as a treatment of an already manifest disease or problem, the Diet serves for strengthening the health in general, be it the body or the spirit. There are master teacher plants that by opening a connection with our innate essence, bring the clarity and determination. The cleansing and reinforcement of the whole body-mind is realized by properly choosing the right medicine or master teacher plant. That is why this holistic medicine practice is the basis for the traditional Shamanic apprenticeship. It can also help a practitioner to discover subtle psycho-energetic qualities, reinforce the will-power and discipline.

In case there are no Diets organized when you need to go on treatment, you can however request the necessary information to attend the Amazon medicine plant Diet on your own. However to go on this kind of journey alone, Spanish language skills will be needed.