WHAT ARE ANCESTRAL MEDICINES FOR?
Ancestral medicines, as a loving expression of Mother Earth towards us, her children.
The human being, in the search for well-being and balance, has found many answers over the years. More than answers, they could be called practices that have brought him closer to himself and his own path of healing. These paths of health have not only been found from allopathic or Western medicine, but they come from very, very long ago. Healers, shamans and elders from the oldest communities on the planet were in charge of knowing the medicine of the Earth, as well as spiritual practices that would help the communities to be well with themselves and the divinity that guided them.
( Illness and ancestral medicines )
WHAT IS ANCESTRAL MEDICINE?
Ancestral medicine is known as the “ set of health practices, beliefs and knowledge based on the use of natural resources (plants, animals or minerals), spiritual therapies and manual techniques that seek to maintain individual and community health ”. It is the way of healing that our ancestors found to heal ailments, raise the quality of life or preserve the balance in the communities they inhabited. One of the most important characteristics of ancestral medicine is that it not only focuses on physical ailments, but can also observe and treat diseases of the spirit.
( Rapé as ancestral medicine )
THE SHAMAN OR MEDIATOR: THE ONE IN CHARGE OF PRESERVING THE BALANCE
The men and women who commanded this knowledge are known as shamans. In indigenous communities, it is believed that the shaman is the one who is called to preserve the balance and that “being indigenous is living with nature, respecting it, ask him for help and harmonize the worlds.” Because from this cosmogony human beings, nature and the spiritual world flow in a constant balance, for the ancestral doctors of these communities the body becomes ill when this sacred harmony is interrupted by various factors .
( Shamanism a way to expand the vision )
DISEASE: THE IMBALANCE OF MAN WITH NATURE
Part of the belief of currents such as shamanism or ancient traditions that have walked this Earth is that disease consists of an imbalance between man and nature. When man has a destructive relationship with nature (such as flora, fauna and man himself) and with others, he paves the way for disease. For the ancient doctors, we are also permeable beings. We can be easily influenced by positive or negative elements that come from outside, and in the face of an unbalanced body, the disease becomes entrenched. It is there when the shaman shows us the path of balance.
( The Elements of Nature in the Cosmology of Shamanism )
ANCESTRAL MEDICINE: WISDOM THAT DOES NOT DISAPPEAR
Despite the rise of allopathic or traditional medicine, these physical, spiritual or contemplative practices have not completely disappeared. On the contrary, they have become entrenched in the search for the essential, for a humanity that has lost contact with its transcendence. In fact, today, thanks to science, the great successes that many of these ancestral sacred practices have manifested have been corroborated. On the path of the search for truth, this ancient wisdom, far from disappearing, is increasingly linked to modern healing techniques (or have been structured for greater understanding).
( Shamanism: Ecstatic Trance )
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