Master Plant Diet: Chiric Sanango

Chiric Sanango is a very powerful healing and teaching plant. Chiric Sanango’s medicine is good for healing joint pain, back pain and other physical body pains. Chiric Sanango’s medicine has a lot of heat — with this heat, Chiric Sanango is able to clean and remove all pains within the body, because these pains are caused by cold energies and cold airs.

One who has dieted Chiric Sanango long-term will no longer be affected by cold weather, as these cold airs will no longer enter the dieter’s head or body. In the past, ancient shamans dieted Chiric Sanango to strengthen their bodies and fortify themselves against the cold.

Chiric Sanango is an Amazonian shrub that sprouts purple and white flowers. It grows to about 2 to 3 meters in height and is relatively dense.

A long-term learning diet with Chiric Sanango is very strict. To truly learn Chiric Sanango’s medicine, a year long diet is required.

TypeHealing or learning diet
Duration11 days minimum for healing; 3 months or more for learning
Best forRemoving physical pains such as joint pain, back pain, etc.

Chiric Sanango is one of the many master plant diets we work with at Nihue Rao. You can find more about the master plant diets we offer here: Nihue Rao Master Plant Diets. If you are interested in dieting a particular master plant that you do not see listed, please contact us for more information.

Learn more about what a master plant diet is and how one can help your healing process in our Guide to Master Plant Diets.

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We are a traditional Shipibo ayahuasca retreat center, located about 1-hour outside of Iquitos, Peru in the small village of Llanchama. Nihue Rao is led by our head shaman, Maestro Ricardo Amaringo, who has over 40 years of experience with ayahuasca and plant medicine. Our center is built rustically and traditionally, and is surrounded by the Amazon Rainforest. We hold 4 ayahuasca ceremonies per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

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