Health and Mysteries of Peru. Alternative therapies by Peru
Of generation in generation a series of millenarian knowledge has gone that comes alternatively using in different places from the Peruvian territory to be able to obtain the harmony of the body and the spirit. The ones in charge of these rituals are Chamanes and healers (Doctors Andean wizards) who are inheriting of one riquísima wisdom which they complement with the elementary energies of the nature and with the energy coming from the Apus or mountains tutelary. The sessions of I diagnose and treatment is made in special rites that they include among others, the use of the Sanpedro cactus (coast), of the coca leaf (mountain range), and of the liana ayahuasca (forest). These plant decontaminate and allow the spiritual teacher to enter the
unconscious world of the patient to be able to guide them in their self-knowledge, to free them of their evils, to orient them by the footpaths of the health and well-being, to make them know the sacred character and wonderful world the nature.
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Ancestral Presences:
In the called hills Apus and the Lagoons Sagradas or Cochas they inhabit the Andean divinities and amazonian, like the Pachamama or Madre Earth, that the generating principles of cosmo govern, in this power spaces, chamanes they are the intermediaries between the world of the spirits and the one of the humans. The faith in the curativas properties of the rituals summons to believers and skeptics of all the Planet.
Payment to the Earth
The payments are the form commonest to venerate to the divinities. Silver nonworked, chicha consist of offerings of coca leaf leaves (mediating being the worlds divine and human), came, animal fat, candies and huairuros (seeds rojinegras with symbolic and magical powers). The offerings are also made during the Andean celebrations and personally, within a ritual that incorporates the fire, songs, prayers, dances and whistles. In the mountain range there are fortune tellers who read the coca leat leaves with the same facility that their western pairs do it with the tarot. Another form of offering is the
stone barrows or knolls that leave the travellers near the Apus.
Legend and Mysteries:
According to the oral traditions, many places of Peru are inhabited by supernatural beings, like "gentile" or the guards of old places. Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo left the Titicaca Lake to found the Empire Inca on the Cusco. The Islands of Lurín are beings turned rock by the God Kon. A series of tunnels would unite the cities of Cusco and Cajamarca. The Chullachaqui, beautiful to be with dolphin legs, seduces doncellas of the Amazon. In the colonial lots they vagan lás you animate with its breaks and secrets of hidden treasures. The Muki receives tribute in blood in the mines. That is to say, all a infinity of Histories and myths to listen and to feel in this wonderful earth that is Peru.
Thermal Bath:
In Peru it has more than 400 thermal sources with temperatures superior to 20º C and until 89º C. This water bicarbonated, cloruradas and sulphated is indicated for the treatment of rheumatic, dermatológicas, respiratory, renales and hepáticas affections. The hidrotermales therapies are antiestrésantes and also they improve the circulatory and muscular activity of the human body. The Baths of the Inca (Cajamarca), Monterrey (Ancash) and Churin (Lima), are the most frequent bath, as well as those of Hot Waters (Machupicchu) and the Limekiln (Arequipa), concurred by the visitors who conclude their trips by the Way Inca and the Tube of the Colca, respectively.
Chamanica Session:
One begins to Andean divinities and holy catholics. The ingestion of a concoction of Sanpedro (coast and mountain range) or of ayahuasca (forest) prepares the body for the ritual. "to be cleaned", each patient marches past before him Chamán, that sees the evils that is aquejan. In his "table" he has swords, twigs, huacos, bronzes, stones, waters of lagoons and skulls he uses to make return the positive energies to the body and dissolve the evils. The main centers of curanderismo are the lagoons Huaringas (Piura) Tucume and Rooms (Lambayeque), Pucallpa (Ucayali) and Wanamey (Cusco). If she still looks for witchcraft in Cachiche (Ica) witches exist who use spells.
Power Places:
Some places are loaded of a cosmic energy that trasmite vitality towards which they enter his territories to look for answers the questions of the life. This mystical union of the man with the nature can be obtained in millenarian Temple of Chapín (Ancash) inhabited by its stone Gods; in it celebrates plateau to it of Marcahuasi (Lima), compared with the Australian monolith of Uluru; in the temples Incas of Tipón and Raqchi (Cusco) where one surrenders cultured to the Sun and the Water; in monoliths of Machupicchu (Cusco) like the Intihuatana or solar clock in the Titicaca Lake or between the rocky strangers formation of the tube of Tinajano (Puno).
Proteinic Foods:
A great genetic bank of Peru, with but of 25 thousand associated plants, of which 400 are useful for diverse aims, and native knowledge to of culture, vigilant changes of the world-wide habits of consumption. The proteinic components of some cultures, for example, are important in the diets of the sportsmen and astronauts of industrialized countries. The fruits are rich in vitamins, like lúcuma, that begins to integrate itself in the world-wide market.
Between grains there are 55 varieties of maize and between the leguminosas they are very nutritious and with highest protein values (between 15% and 45%): quinua, kiwicha, tarwi, frijol, to pallar and cañihua. Between tubercles, rich in carbohydrates, in addition to the Pope (with more than 4000 varieties in Peru), they emphasize oca, mashua and olluco. Between the eatable roots, the maca, arracacha and yacon are most remarkable.
Medicinal Plants.
In Peru they have been registered but of 1400 medicinal plants, and its use has extended from the field to the great cities, where many have been industrialized with all the sanitary exigencies. An infusion of coca leaf leaves (Erytraxilon cocaine), for example, is the best palliative for but of height or the altitude sickness. The seeds of achiote (orellana Bixa) fight the asthma, the migraine, the hypertension and the hepatitis. The cat nail (Uncariatomentosa) inhibits the growth of celulas cancerous. The degree blood (Croton lechleri) serves like healing and against the stomach ulcers. Caigua (rapedata Cyclanthe) fights the diabetes. Boldo (Peumus boldus) is stimulating a biliary one. The extraida quinine of lquina (Cinchona
officinalis) cures the malaria. They can eliminate with infusions of tail of horse (Andropogonbicornis) or chancapiedras (Phyllanthus niruri)
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