The heart of the palm can be eaten. Part of the Cecropia can be dried and smoked for a vision, but it makes one sick in the process. Peccaries are pig-like animals native to the area. The pseudomyrmex ants protect it. They are given nectar in the stem and protein at the end of the leaves.
Shelter is found in the thorns of the tree.
Then there is the strangler vine that wraps itself around a tree and so totally encircles it that it eventually becomes a tree, but kills its original host. The wild yam is good for birth control. It is to be boiled and then the milk is drunk. The protection lasts three months. The limit of use seems to be 3 times or it will make the person sterile.