Yopo: Medicine of the Gods

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Popularly known as niopo of the Orinoco, colorado guaya of Nueva Granada, yopo, cohoba, nopo, mopo, parica or tamarindo de teta, Anadenanthera peregrina is a natural perennial tree of the Caribbean and South America.

The yopo is almost identical to the tree of the same species Anadenanthera colubrina, commonly known as cebil or vilca. The legumes of this plant have a chemical complex similar to bufotenin.

Properties

The black beans from the pods of these trees are toasted and mashed in a mortar with lime, ashes or calcined husks to make a psychedelic snuff called yopo. The yopo was inhaled through the nose by means of ceramic inhalers or bamboo canes in religious ceremonies of the Caribbean aborigines, especially the Tainos, in what is known as the cohoba rite.

Still some aboriginal cultures use the Yopo as part of their shamanistic rituals of the Amazon, a hallucinogen habitual in ceremonies, social acts of any kind.

Active principles: Alkaloids. N, N-dimethyltriptamine, its monomethylated counterpart in nitrogen (N-methyltriptamine) and its 5-hydroxylated derivative (bufotenin) and 5-methoxylated (5-MeO-DMT)

The kiami kiachi is an expression in wótuja that is translated simply as "endures". From the point of view of a linguist or anthropologist, this expression contains two meanings: strength and heart.

The expression "kuami kiachi" is heard for the first time taking the yopo medicine: -kuami kiachi hold still without moving ...

As many already know, the Ñuá (yopo) awakens and expands our consciousness and exalts our emotions. I felt that by demanding control and silence they restricted my freedom. My freedom to express my emotions, my feelings. My self in its maximum expression

Those of us who come from the city come to please our SELF. From small we are taught to please our SELF. That mental I They teach us to think, to judge and to decide from our "I". That I that is considered special. That I who is always right.

That I was the one who did not understand the "kuami kiachi". That I struggled to express himself and do what he wanted and always seek his welfare and what he did not like to avoid or erase or deny it or not accept it ...

What should "hold"? the desire to throw ourselves to the floor, to sleep, the desire to laugh out loud, the desire to cry, the desire to run away, the desire to discuss, to scold, the desire to express love or anger, we had to learn to control our emotions.

And it is that medicine yopo is in itself, a school, to know yourself ...

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