At Chacruna: Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine

UMIYAC, Rubiela Mojomboy, Ernesto Evanjuanoy, Miguel Evanjuanoy & Riccardo Vitale

The curacas, our men of wisdom or traditional doctors—harmonize relations within the community and heal illnesses. The curacas know the territory, know and communicate with the spirits of Mother Nature, and feel the sacred energy sites of the territory. The curacas have studied and practiced the medicine for ten, twenty, thirty and even forty and fifty years. Often, they come from lineages of medicine men and medicine women. The curacas are our spiritual neurologists. Learning the medicine is an arduous lifetime mission... continue reading.