Shamanic Medicine Center
Wanamey Center- tree of life-, is a program of the Cultural Center Wanamey (CECUWA). It works since 1989 thanks to the Healer and Master Huachiperi, Alejandro Jahuanchi “Darikiking”, who founded the Center which purpose is investigate, revalue, conserve and spread the values of the Amazonic traditional medicine.
The Center of Traditional Medicine Wanamey offers services of traditional medicine; we are therapist, healers in different fields of the traditional and alternative medicine, or “shamans” who offer treatments and knowledge of the Peruvian Traditional Medicine.
Our mission is to contribute with knowledge and solutions to health problems at various levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, without discriminating the achievements of modern medicine
Treatments.
Our treatments are based in the use of medicinal plants, owners of generous spirits who provide them of healing properties. To call and know those spirits is the beginning of our medicine and the start of a balanced relation with the patient and nature. Therefore, Sacred Plants like Ayahuasca (Mother plant, Doctor and Master), Floripondio or Toe, Tobacco and Coca become of special importance
We offer psychomagical treatments for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual disorders:
Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual cleaning; purgatives, poultices, liniments, sweat lodge baths with aromatical plants, infusions, brews-
Concentration and lineation of internal bodies with ayahuasca ceremonies, purification rituals with tobacco, sun baths, rituals and treatments with the four elements: earth, water, air and fire.
Treatment of different diseases with Floripondio or Datura; rituals, psychomagical treatments and shamanic chants (Ícaros). Our treatments can have a duration of eight or more days.
Diseases we treat:
Depressive disorders, Personality disorders, Anxiety, Emotional disorders, Stress, Fears and Phobias, Aggressiveness, Shyness, Insomnia, Anorexia, Bulimia, Alcoholism, Psychosomatic unbalances, Loss of Life´s sense, Personal orientation, Spiritual growth, Fibromialgia, Chronic fatigue, Colon irritated, Appetite disorders, Articular pain, Arthritis, Artrosis, Rheumatism, Headache, Cholesterol, Digestive and intestine problems, Liver, Kidneys, Twists, Muscular problems, Contractions, Backache.
Situation
The Center of traditional medicine Wanamey is located in a Nature and Ecological Reserve of 50 Ha, in theCultural Area of the Manu´s reserve of Biosphere, Pillcopata, Cusco, Perú, at a height of 700 m over sea level and from 180 km to the city of Cusco (approximately nine hours of travel). The climate is warm and wet, the middle annual temperature is 25º C.
The infrastructure of the center is at forest style; we do own bungalows withshared WC; rooms are for three people with indivudual bed and mosquito net. The rooms are over platforms of 60 cm height and have no doors, that is for our energy to flow and connect with Nature. We do also own a ethnobotanical garden. We do ask people for Willpower, Patience, Faith and keeping mind free of prejudices.
Other activities:
The medicine center Wanamey also offers different activities: shamanism and ayahuasca workshops, spiritual retreats with ayahuasca, personal growth, traditional medicine, seminars, lectures and trips of spiritual growth, individual or for groups.
Agriculture- Medicinal Plants:
One of our activities consists in supporting the agriculture activities of the center, for example to produce food for everyday´s life. We work with ancient technics of cultivation and mixing Amazonian techniques with agro ecological proposals
The main cultivations existing in the center are yuca, mountain potatoe, corn, uncucha, rice, sugar plant and fruit trees (papaya, anona, citrics). Forest trees we have guano, cedar, caoba, pashico, peine de mono, catahua, michiccallo, niro, palo de luna, etc.
Our ethnobotanical garden is dedicated to the spreading of information over properties and ways of use of the area´s medicinal plants. We do grow the following species: floripondio, tobacco, coca, chacruna and ayahuasca “bajegpa” (considered as sacred on the Amazonian cosmovision, with spiritual and healing properties), uña de gato, sangre de grado, piri piri, mata palo, sano sano, wuito, santa maría, oje, habashabas, verdolaga, hierba golondrina, pijuayo, matico, yahuar chonca, etc. This pants are used in the treatments and healings we offer in our center.
The medicinal center Wanamey was thought from an ayahuasca vision that had Alejandro Jahuanchi, its foundator. In our cosmovision is important the mithic memory and the simbolic aspects that we consider sacred. Every being in nature has an spirit, we all are one; animals, plants and people depend mutually of each other to live in armony. The elements of nature, as water, are not virtues but gifts from the universe.
