An Ayahuasca plant medicine Healing center and Maloca in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in a jungle clearing near Iquitos
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Brian Van Tighem / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5700 x 3800 px | 48.3 x 32.2 cm | 19 x 12.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1 April 2016Location:
Amazon Rainforest, Iquitos, Nauta, Maynas, Loreto, Peru, South AmericaMore information:
An Ayahuasca Healing center in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest in a jungle clearing is made up of tambos, which are small single room wooden homes on stilts with palm thatched roofs covering them and mosquito netting over the windows, and a central Maloca (Maloka) used for traditional medicine ceremonies in the Shipibo Conibo Amazonian tradition. 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.