Bobinsana Master Plant of the Jungle

Bobinsana the unconditional love of the jungle!

Calliandra Angustifolia

Bobinsana originates from the Amazon basin and is a very ancient medicinal plant used by jungle dwellers. It is widely used to heal the body, mind, and spirit, and to enhance spiritual and shamanic abilities. Its primary effect is heart-opening.

Traditionally, a strong tea tincture is made from it using an alcohol called aguardiente, which is made from cane sugar. As a strong tea, Bobinsana can be an effective tonic for strength and energy, as it can boost the immune system. Depending on the tribe, the entire plant – the roots, bark, leaves, and flowers – is also used to make a medicinal extract. In the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo-Conibo Indians have long produced a medicinal tincture from the bark of the Bobisana tree, which is used to treat rheumatism and other ailments. In some ayahuasca recipes and ceremonies, Bobinsana is also used by curanderos and curanderas as an additional ingredient.

Bobinsana is a highly revered plant for lucid dreaming and has long been prescribed in shamanic practices to heal matters of the heart and emotional trauma, and to support people with arthritis, rheumatism, musculoskeletal pain, edema, and uterine disorders.

Research conducted in Sweden also shows that the plant contains COX inhibitors, which are a remedy for arthritis.

In the physical body, Bobinsana has anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritis, anti-cancer, anti-rheumatic, stimulant, diuretic, and is also believed to be used in some places as a contraceptive.

It also has a calming effect on our entire system. It promotes reflection and has a positive impact on our flexible thinking and feeling. It harmonizes our emotional world and supports us in effective communication. During a Bobinsana diet, it's not uncommon to cry for days, as it gives us the strength to open our hearts to everything hidden within and to let it flow. Out when it concerns old pain, suffering, and trauma, and in when it concerns the connection to all being.

During my last Bobinsana diet, I felt an incredible strength rising within me, the strength of an Amazon in the rainforest. Without the slightest hint of fear, a warrior's power flowed within me and through me into my surroundings. Bobinsana, however, doesn't want us to go to war with anyone or anything—quite the opposite. It's about this power awakening the courage to open our hearts and heal them. The courage to love and be free in the process. It's about revisiting the old battlefields within us, carrying with us the peace and tranquility that can then enter us.

Just a few years ago, I spent most of my day in fight-or-flight mode, driven by beliefs about myself and the world, carrying a horde of trauma with me, like shadows that never left my side in my thoughts and actions. The result was a life of perpetual cycles that produced the same result. I was tired of life. My journey changed when I began to change direction. Instead of looking outside, I began to explore my inner world and dissolve one belief after another, thus moving a step closer to freedom each time. Until the day I began to live my life with an open heart.

Opening the heart, even if it's just for ourselves at first, can be frightening, because that's where we encounter all our fears, our pain, and suffering. Bobinsana gives us the courage, the strength, the power, and the feeling that we are not alone on this journey of the heart. Through them, we discover that our energy field was never separate from the primal power of the jungle and all being on Earth. That we were never alone, even if the loneliness seemed unbearable at certain times in our lives. Separation is an illusion of our time!

Bobinsana connects us to universal wisdom through lucid dreaming and expanding consciousness in everyday life, and stores all this information back in our body cells. This accelerates our healing journey many times over.

And she certainly has much more at her core that we don't yet know about.

I'm so happy that she's now growing in my garden, along with me. Or perhaps I could say that I'm blossoming in her garden.