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38 Cards in this Set
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Ritual and daily living space |
Maloca |
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Spiritual leaders |
Sabedores |
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Sacred space where sabedores carry out rituals on the Maloca |
Mambeadero |
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What is the purpose of the Coca ritual? |
For the Sabedores to communicate with their gods and spirits to analyse and resolve problems presented in the community |
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What is the preparation process of the ritual Coca? |
-Ritual Coca is gathered -Leaves are toasted -Then pulverised using a mortar and pestle -Dry Yarumo leaves are burnt -Yarumo ash and coca leaves are mixed creating mambe -Mambe is sieved -Coca is then prepared in the chagra |
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What is the principle of medicine in the Uitoto tribe? |
The holistic approach of balancing energies in the body |
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What plant is used in the preparation of Ambil? |
Tabacco |
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What is Yaje? |
A hollucinogenic plant used by the sabedores to communicate with gods |
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What is a Chagra? |
A sacred area where ritual and medicinal plants and food are grown, located in primary jungle |
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Yuca |
Food source Needs to be prepared properly or can be toxic |
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Slash and Burn agriculture |
Type of farming used in the cultivation of the Chagra, slashing and burning does not destroy the underground network of plants and fertilises the soil |
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Aji |
-Hot pepper -Ritual, food and medicinal uses |
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Canangucho |
-Edible and medicinal plant -Source of carbohydrates, vitamins etc -Food source for animals, brings animals to the chagra |
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Cocoa |
-Fruit eaten and seeds kept and toasted to make chocolate -Other family members also used as a food source |
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Pineapple |
-Many different varieties -Good source of Fibre, Thiamine, copper, Magnesium and vitamins |
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Cashew (Maranon) |
-Toasted nut, good source of oil -Red fleshy part is juicy and contains tannins, anti-diarrhoeal |
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Caimo |
-Fruit: very sweet taste, good source of vitamin B -Young leaves used as an antiseptic for wounds |
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Banana |
-Cultivated for food -Carbohydrate source -Vitamins B and C |
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Acai |
-Fruit used to make nutritious drink -Juice rich in calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B, omega - 6 and 9 -Used medicinally to treat diarrhoea -Tea made to treat worms |
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Riverine Chagras |
-Chagras cultivated on flood planes where the river level goes down leaving fertile beaches -Plants with short harvest time grown here due to rise and fall of river level |
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Plants grown in river chagras |
-Peanuts -Coconut palms -Rum fruit -Ginger |
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Fish that eats and spreads seeds |
Tambaqui |
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Mojojoy |
-Food delicacy -Worm that lives on a palm tree -Larvae of the Rhinoceros beetle |
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Totumas |
-Fruit of the Totumo tree -Used against flu -Used as a kitchen implement |
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Saponins |
-Natural soap -Inner part of the bark is used externally as an aesthetic and in the treatment of wounds -Used in preparation on vegetable salt |
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Isolongifolenone from the resin of the Tauroniro tree |
Insect repellent |
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Jitagi |
-Shampoos and to prevent grey hairs -Contains anti-tumour-promoting iridoid glucose -Also used as body paint |
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Steps in healing used by Uitoto |
1. Diagnosis 2. Location of Cure 3. Collection of medicine 4. Preparation of medicine 5. Conjuration 6. Use |
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Clearing in primary forest with solitary trees |
Paiki |
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Fungi |
-Used to treat mouth infections -Used when young and red in colour -When it ages it becomes whiteish and toxic -Grows on felled trees in the chagra |
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Chuchuguasa |
-Anti-inflammatory -Root bark must be collected from the side of the tree that receives the first sun in the morning -In western countries used against cancer |
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Sacha Ajo |
-A vine to keep negative energies away -Similar to garlic |
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Use of tree bark as a splint |
-Used as a splint for broken bones -As the cut tree heals, so does the bone -Plant sap may also contain wound/bone healing compounds and/or painkiller |
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Conjuration |
-Removal of negative energies (usually using tobacco) -Attraction of positive energies to the patient (Bathing the patient with "sentilla") -Bring the person back into balance with his/her environment and community (usually with a ritual dance) |
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Barbasco |
Plants containing poisonous chemical compounds in their roots, used for fishing. |
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What is Homeopathy? |
-'Like cures like' -Method of prescribing according to the matching symptoms -Using a compound that causes the same symptoms to treat a disease with the same symptom |
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What is the Hahnemannian Potency scale |
- decimal 1:10 serial dilution - centesimal 1:100 serial dilution |
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What is the Korsakovian Potency Scale |
-1:1000 and 1:10000 serial dilution |
