Rapé - Tobacco snuff is a sacred shamanic medicine or tool, that has been used by tribes of the Amazon basin for thousands of years and is an essential part of their tribal culture and history. Rapé is the name for one of many of these snuffs, and it's foundation lies by numerous indiginous tribes in Acre, Brazil. Curiously, Rapé is not sniffed, snorted or inhaled. Instead, it is administered (blown) into the nostrils with a special blowpipe called "Kuripe" (self administration) or "Tepi" (another person administers).
From the indigenous point of view, rapé is a sacred shamanic snuff medicine with profound healing effects. Rapé is made from different medicinal plants for different purposes – to induce visions, to have energy, to enhance the senses with the aromatic fragrance of the plants used in the blend. Given that there are myriad medicinal plants you can blend into rapé, there are as many rapé recipes in existence, and these recipes are often closely guarded by the tribes.
Sharing rapé – or “passando rapé” – is a traditionally a ritualistic practice among the Indians that may include specific chants to activate the force of the rapé and to confer the healing power of the forest upon the rapé recipient.
Generally, they have the following effects – profoundly helps to re-align and open all your chakras, improves your grounding, releases any sickness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, opens-up the third eye, de-calcifies the pineal gland, clears any mental confusion, releases any negative thoughts, removes any entities, connects you to your divine breath, and elevates your connection with Spirit.
Rapé paves the way for detoxifying the body and cleans out all excess mucus, toxins, and bacteria, thereby, assisting in fighting colds and snuffles. Moreover, Rapé stimulates the mind with its nicotinic content that in turn releases a.o. epinephrine, acetylcholine, and dopamine, supporting an increased focus, presence, and intuition. Interestingly, their are many rumours that Rapé could decalcify the pineal gland, which is involved in melatonin secretion, circadian time perception, and drug metabolism.
WHAT IS SANANGA
&
BECHETTE ?
Sananga is a natural medicine traditionally used by many tribes of the Amazon for helping heal spiritual and physical ailments. In a spiritual sense, the Amazonians use Sananga to clear their minds of distraction bringing clarity and focus to the forefront. Sananga is also used in eye drop form to enhance vision.
Sananga is an intense and powerful medicine which is applied to the eye in the form of eye drops, made of the Tabernaemontana Sananho botanical family, are eye drops produced from a macerated root.
Sananga shows powerful potential to help with a range of physical, emotional and spiritual conditions such as:
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Can treat and prevent eye conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, farsightedness, nearsightedness
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Helps to increase visual perception and enhance colors
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Helps to detox the body
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Helps to reset the bio-electrics
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Treats panema (spiritual disease) caused by negative energies in the body. These spiritual diseases can accumulate in a person’s energetic body and make a person depressed and anxious
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May be used assisting with addictions, depression and anxiety as it has a sedative action. This can be used alongside other therapies
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Can help with anger issues
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Can help to rebalance the pituitary gland and help endocrine function
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Relieve nausea and vomiting
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Relieve intestinal and digestive issues such as gas and diarrhea
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Headaches
Bechette is used by the Matses and other tribes in Peru and Brazil. Bechette comes from the Tabernaemontana undulata plant, a relative of the bush used to make Sananga. Bechette contains iboga alkaloids, naturally occurring psychoactive compounds. Ibogaine is used in pain management and to treat opiate addiction. Bechette is used to enhance vision and impart energy in its subjects. These additional medicines work together with Kambo to cleanse the energy field of panema and are beneficial in their own right.