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Huachuma is a fast-growing columnar cactus, Echinopsis pachanoi It is native to the Andes of Ecuador, but it is cultivated all over Ecuador and other places in South America. In its natural environment San Pedro grows up to 20 feet high and is multi branched.<br>
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Huachuma is a fast-growing columnar cactus, Echinopsis pachanoi It is native to the Andes of Ecuador, but it is cultivated all over Ecuador and other places in South America. In its natural environment San Pedro grows up to 20 feet high and is multi branched.The cactus is light to dark green, sometimes glaucous (covered with a bluish, greyish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that rubs off easily). Generally it has between 4-8 ribs.Groups of 1-4 small, yellow to light brown, spines are located at the nodes which are evenly spaced apart (circa 2 cm apart) along the ribs. Huachuma contains a number of psychoactive alkaloids, including mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine, 0.11 – 2.3%), and also 3,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenethylamine, 3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, anhalonidine, anhalinine, tyramine, hordenine and 3-methoxytyramine. Mescaline is an entheogen and also found in Peyote (Lophophora Williamsii), as well as other species of the Echinopsis genus such as Echinopsis peruviana, and Echinopsis scopulicola.
Uses of Huachuma Huachuma has a long history of traditional use. It has become the most popular cactus in neo-shamanic rituals due to its excellent fertility and ease of cultivation. Huachuma is used by shamanic cultures in the Andes as a means to See and for esoteric healing rituals. Huachuma is sometimes used in conjunction with other sacred plants, such as coca, tobacco, Brugmansia and Anadenanthera. Huachuma is used by Andean shamans for guidance, decision making, healing, spiritual communion, trance, and ecstatic soul flight to access other realms in the three worlds of spirit. Huachuma helps one attain and remain in balance with the natural world. Huachuma Ceremony Huachuma has been used throughout history by many ancient precolumbian civilizations. Huachuma is a shamanic sacrament, a marvelous healing medicine, and a magnificant spiritual teacher which fueled the genersis of Andean civilization. For more than 4,000 years, the Huachuma ceremony has been a continuous tradition in Ecuador and Peru to the present day. Maestro huachumeros claim that much of the knowledge and insightsthey possess comes directly from the plants themselves. Maestro huachumeros are pure animists in believing that all aspects of creation, from the elements to mountains and stones, as well as plants and animals are all living conscious entities, each at their magnitude of existence from infinity to infinity.
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