Sapo In My Soul: The Matsés Frog Medicine by Peter Gorman

Author:Peter Gorman [Gorman, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: nonfiction, alternative medicine
Publisher: Gorman Bench Press
Published: 2015-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Ayahuasca vine.

Photo: Morgan Maher

I’ve also discovered that sapo and nü-nü work wonderfully with ayahuasca. While the ayahuasca cleans up the garbage in your heart and soul, the sapo cleans out the physical garbage stored in your body. By cleaning you of toxins that have accumulated in your organs and arteries, it allows the ayahuasca to work more deeply on your spirit because it’s not being forced to do the heavy lifting of the physical clean-up. And nü-nü, as an adjunct medicine to sapo, lends nuance to that physical clean-up and to your senses, particularly sight and smell, as well.

On a spiritual level, it seems to me that people often hide their emotional problems physically. Someone who has been badly hurt emotionally might put on a lot of weight to create a sort of barrier around themselves to keep other people—people who might hurt them emotionally—at bay. For someone in that situation, the emotional pain they carry might be buried very deeply, so deeply that even ayahuasca will have a difficult time rooting it out so that the person can see it and have a choice whether to continue carrying that pain around or eliminating it. The sapo can help in that case by pushing the body to eliminate some of the physical detritus that is hiding that emotional pain—through sweating, vomiting, defecation—which might allow the ayahuasca to dig just a little deeper to help unseat it on the spiritual level.

That is a simple example but suggests the larger picture: Cleansing the physical can often make the emotional issues more accessible for scrutiny and elimination. The body and spirit are working in conjunction when we are healthy, and they are working in a sort of negative conjunction when we are ill. So the illness often has to be treated on multiple levels, and sapo cleansing is one way to eliminate the cover of spiritual/emotional problems by the body.

For my purposes, I generally offer my guests the magic mushrooms two days before they drink ayahuasca for the first time. The sapo and nü-nü are generally offered the day after the first ayahuasca ceremony or the day of the next ayahuasca ceremony. I don’t offer the sapo and nü-nü closer than about 10 hours to drinking ayahuasca as I think people should come into the ayahuasca very clean and with no confusing medicines in their system. The medicines are still working when it’s time to drink ayahuasca, of course, but 10 hours is enough time for sapo to eliminate a lot of toxins, cleaning the physical body up so that ayahuasca can concentrate on the spirit bodywork.

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