Ash ense

[Kambogahuascanga]

This post is about the use of toasting plants/herbs and more imperatively about making them into an ash to potentiate their properties. I bring this up as someone curious with questions about how to properly do this as well as why it works.

I come upon this inquisitive thought process with my introduction to the snuff called Rape'. It is made by the Yawanawa peoples of Brazil with tribe family ties to the Kaxinawa and overall Pano family. The Rape' blows my mind because it is grey and appears to be all ash. And yet it is visionary and very much seems to have DMT qualities to it. It definitely has Nicotiana Rustica in it but the other herbs are guarded with spiritual zelousness and the recipe is concealed by the Paje's/Shaman's.

So my question: What is going on here? How can making a plant into an ash potentiate the properties. And how does Virola snuff work in combination with the Ash of Justicia Pectoralis and/or the ash of Theobroma Bicolor? What is going on here, and I am completely baffled and mystefied. I would like to make Virola snuff (yes I know where to source non stripped Virola Theiodora) but I don't know how to make the ash properly. What should I do I wonder, just burn it?

I call this Ash ense because to me it reminding me strangely of flower essence in bringing the actual qualities of the medicine out more pronounced and uniform. Last night I made a bad but good mistake of snuffing Rape' while on Taohuasca (Rue/Acacia Confusa) and it brought me this idea to Ashense.

If anyone can shed some light I would deeply appreciate it as I believe this technology to be paramount to breaking through with Snuffs. The Sanema have it down pat and if you do a youtube search for Sanema and Virola a Bruce Parry video will show up.

Other recipes are for the Nu-Nu of the Matses using a 50/50 combo of wild Nicotiana Rustica and the inner bark ash of Theobroma Bicolor. And the other one I am aware of is Tsune'...This snuff is on the list of the best 10 medicines of Brazil. It comes from the Yawanawa tribe. Made with the ashes of a bark mixed with mapacho (from Giovanni Lattanzi's site where he sells it).

Again any insight would go a long way I believe.

Thanks,
KIAP the eternal student

 

[Kambogahuascanga]

The Witoto are the Ionizing Alkalizing Ash Masters of the Forest...

http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/6141/1/juanalvaroecheverri.2011.pdf

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Making minerals entheogenic since time immemorial! Distilled ash of vegetables making food for the spirit. The minerals tapping into our bodies deepest needs and the ancient tribes reminding us of our nature.

Viva the reminder of the Witoto nutrition!

 

[endlessness]

The ash raises the pH of the snuff, possibly improving the snuff`s alkaloids absorption. The snuffs are most def not made of just ash, though they mix the ash with other plant material, like n. rustica, as you mentioned.

The alkaline ashes do not have dmt in them, though it may be possible they mixed another non-combusted plant in the mix that contains dmt.

 

[jamie]

The properties(beyond an alkalizing base) of the ash are symbolic of each tree species etc in my view. It is not a pharmacological effect, but a mytho-psychic(in an attempt to reconcile our assult on such phenomenon by using the term "placebo") effect...Hey I can make up terms if I want to...

I make ashes now from plants to add to DMT snuffs. I notice that the burn is muted more with the ash then it is with lime/shells or sodium carbonate.

 

[Kambogahuascanga]

Didn't mean to imply the ash ense has dmt in it but that receiving such high minerals in such a pure form is entheogenic in itself. Been working with highly alkaline sprays to delve deeper into the Mambe regions and definitely feel the minerals at such a high level of ph lift my vibrations to new levels. Also takes the Mambe further into visionary properties where thoughts become more like manifestations that are practical in nature.

 

[Kambogahuascanga]

Making ashes is one thing but extracting the ashes as the Witoto do seems a whole different paradigm.

 

[jamie]

what do you mean extracting the ashes? i have spent a lot of time studying the ethnographic literature on amazonian snuffs in folk traditions but never heard of extractions on the ash...

Can you elaborate?

 

[Kambogahuascanga]

Me 2 brother but this is what has me in awe about these peoples nutritional apex of technology...

The techniques used by the Witoto for the preparation of vegetable salt are basically the same as those documented or reported in other parts of the world. These salts are made by burning plant material from selected vegetable species, lixiviating the ashes through the use of filters, and dehydrating the resulting brine to obtain the dried salts. The Witoto use these salts primarily as an alkaline reagent to mix with tobacco paste, a thick decoction
of filtered tobacco juice, which is consumed by men and women in daily life and on ritual occasions. Men consume the tobacco paste,generously admixed with ash salts, together with coca powder.

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