"Plantas con madre": plants that teach and guide in the shamanic initiation process in the East-Central Peruvian Amazon.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology April 12, 2011 X Jauregui, Z M Clavo, E M Jovel et al. 91 citations
We present and discuss a particular group of plants used by a diversity of healers in the initiation process and apprenticeship of traditional medicine, as practiced by Amazonian societies in East-Central Peru. Often, these plants are locally called plantas con madre (plants with a mother), and are thought to guide initiates in the process of seeking sacred knowledge, learning about plant...