In our modern world, most of us abuse nicotine, but for many native cultures, tobacco is a sacred plant known to purify both individuals and ceremonial spaces. This is the case with rapé (pronounced "ha-peh"), a powerful, cleansing snuff used by shamans in Brazil and Peru as part of important healing rituals. Rapé is gaining more popularity outside the Amazon for its healing properties, and for people interested in trying it out, it's important to find a trusted source of sacred tobacco.
How can using rapé help you?
Helps to focus and sharpen the mind. Detox the body clears your energy field. Rapé is often used in conjunction with Ayahuasca ceremonies. Clears the sinuses from bacteria, thereby helping to combat colds and respiratory diseases. Provides a calming, grounding effect on emotions. It can be used together with other treatments for addictions and mental illness.
What does rapé contain?
Rapé is often made from several Amazonian plants, the basis of most medicine is a type of tobacco called Nicotiana rustica. This Amazonian tobacco, also known as mapaccio, is used in tribal rituals and is much stronger than N. tabacum, the type of tobacco in cigarettes. In addition to tobacco, rapé usually includes alkaline ash of other plants such as cinnamon, clover, banana peel, or mint, but many shamans keep the right ingredients secret. Tobacco and other ingredients are ground in fine powder, which is then blown into each of the nostrils through a ceremonial tube made of bone or bamboo.
What are the effects and benefits of Rapeh?
What is it used for?
The dose and frequency depend on the real and conscious need of the spirit, like all natural sacred medicine, in the relationship of each one with it and for each moment of one's evolution. It is well known that excesses and extremes are usually not good medicine, and that it is not only the quantity but also the quality that makes the difference, and especially the quality of attention and heart that we devote to the moment of the ritual.
In addition, Rapeh is an air medicine. In the act of blowing we receive the blessing of the Grandfather Wind, universal source of energy, which cleanses our perception, clearing the mind and opening the upper energy channels, to connect with the highest part of our being.
Tobacco and natural medicines help to eliminate entities, energy parasites, contamination and interference in internal dialogue. After receiving Rapeh's entrega, the medicine goes up cleaning, ordering and aligning our energy field, especially the centers or chakras of the third eye and crown, and then up and down the spine, the Tree of Life.
It is also a medicine for the body, which helps to expel mucus and parasites from the frontal and paranasal sinuses. It eliminates headaches, mental confusion and dizziness, as it decompresses the pressure of the skull.
A Rapeh ceremony in a medical circle helps to synchronize and align the attention and perception of participants in moments of opening or transition in the ritual.
It is also a medicine for the vision of the spirit, helping us to free the mind and stop the inner dialogue, to be truly present so that we can see beyond our mental interpretations.
Medical use of Rapeh
Indigenous peoples in South Africa use tobacco to help wounds heal faster, fight ulcers and repel insects. It is used to reduce fatigue, pain, hunger and thirst and to increase endurance. Rapeh can also clean the respiratory tract. Many people find that after having performed the ritual of Rapeh, they can breathe more freely and have a better sense of smell. There are special mixtures of Rapeh that are used against flu, although this is mainly the work of other herbs that are present in the mixture. In high doses, Rapeh can purify the body by inducing sweating and sometimes even vomiting or going to the bathroom. Tobacco alkaloids have an antidepressant and stimulating effect.
Some argue that Rapeh can repair the pineal gland by decalcifying it. The pineal gland produces melatonin, and thus regulates our sleep rhythm. It is also called the third eye and is located in the center of the brain. The pineal gland has an important function in the central nervous system and is potentially involved in diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Although there is as yet no confirmed scientific evidence, there is a theory that tobacco nicotine can help control these diseases. This issue is currently being investigated and studied.
About 90% of people with schizophrenia smoke. They do so as a form of self-medication. Rapeh is much less harmful than smoking and therefore schizophrenic people can benefit from the use of the tobacco plant nasally in the form of Rapeh to avoid the harmful use of cigarettes.
Where to find Rapeh medicine?
Checkout Chakra Openings, they have amazing medicine. I've been using their Rapeh for more than 3 years now and I am really happy with it.
Here is a link: http://chakraopenings.com/?aff=54
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STOPI'm a big nasal snuff guy but never came across this before. Thank you for such an informative article.
Hey you are very welcome. It will help you a lot fiscally, emotionally and mentally. You can use it 2-3 times a day :)