Little Nogwell has a sacred medicine walking stick. Ayahuasca is a sacred medicine of the Amazon. The benefits of this medicine are difficult to exaggerate from enhanced memory, resolution of lifelong addictions, emotional traumas, spirit or tone of animals are the anaconda. The green anaconda, known as the heaviest snake in the world. The jaguar. And the condor. I have mixed feelings about people taking Ayahuasca without a facilitator or a shaman. I feel that if people really need the medicine, it shouldn't just be limited to the people they can afford to go to South America or have access to a shaman. So I just want to stress that it's really important that if you're going to do this at home on your own, to take it very seriously and have respect and patience and dip your toes in very slowly and gradually and make sure that you don't find yourself overwhelmed. Also shaman's pretty much universally believed that it's very important how the energy is maintained around the medicine from the time of harvest throughout preparation. Echoros catch-wow word which means peeling through smoke. And so originally, echoros describe the tradition of holding an intent and is sort of whistle-blowing or whistle-humming smoke with the concentration focused on the intent that you're trying to refer to the medicine. If you wish to prepare using echoros, you don't necessarily need a shaman to teach you how to sing echoros. You can still order a little bit of Mipasha tobacco online or some good organic tobacco and just focus your intentions and whistle-blow the smoke onto the medicine throughout the preparation. First thing you have to do is get a hold of Somai Ayahuasca. So we're walking along heading back to our hostel from the dam in Shell and we notice this brush pile here and it's just full of Ayahuasca. It's just piles of it everywhere. To break the medicine up, just enough so that the water can permeate in between all the little threads. So it needs to be broken up pretty thoroughly. So I have about 650 grams of material here. I'm just going to divide it into two pots and then you want to just cover the material with water with two ounces of vinegar, per liter of water roughly, to help pull the out of the lids out and it doesn't make up a big difference. It's not something you should skip. Boil it for about three hours, strain it, you're going to do that at least three times. Sometimes it's necessary to do it four times, even once I had to do it five times. Eventually the liquid will become almost totally clear and then that's when you know you can go ahead and stop. Eventually you're going to combine the material and reduce it. All the way down to a paste for those of you that are making the microdosing extract. Here in Ecuador we use Chalipanga, also known as Okuyahe or Yahi, which is a vayan and deplopterous. This plant is Chalipanga, which is the Ecuadorian Chakuna. It's not in the same genus even as Chakuna. It's in the coffee family actually. It's a deplopterous, deplopterous cabaretna. The back of the leaf has kind of a shiny gloss. But overall these leaves are a very, very common look. So it takes a little bit of practice to learn to identify the plant. But it is a vayan. Leaves can get very, very big. There's a comparison. I'm not sure if this is a different type, but just sometimes even when it's a small plant, the leaves are huge. We've noticed. It contains both an endimethylantryptamine and fibromiodiumt. So the visions are much more powerful. The experience of unity consciousness is stronger. And I definitely prefer the brew with Chalipanga to just endimethylantryptamine brews. And so we were able to buy some dried boko yahi at the indigenous market. But then today we found a bunch of fresh deplopters down the street. This is the brush pile where we found the ayahuasca, the municipality landscape crew, I guess cut it all down. And oftentimes in nature you'll find plants that work together very close to each other. Poison ivy for example, the United States, you'll find the yellow flower that is the antidote nearby. And so in this hole here, we're just pulling out fissiles and fissiles of Chalipanga, which is the Ketchwa, a name for the plant. The swar name is Okoyahe. Plopterous capper arena, it contains both N&DMT and 5MEODMT, which is the form of DMT associated with the bufotoad. And so the ayahuasca brew that's made with this plant is very, very powerful. And so what I did is I counted the 30 grams that are in this bundle in mass, the same number of leaves. So 15 grams per person is considered a very strong dose if you're using Chalipanga. And so about 50 average sized fresh leaves is the equivalent of 30 grams. So you just add the leaves to the ayahuasca in your pot. And I like to use just a little bit of impacho tobacco. It's not very much, it's not going to have much of an effect, except that it is there to put the grandfather spirit, the essence of this backhoe, keep everyone's mind focused. And my power plant or aloe plant is definitely Boba Insana. And so I always add some fresh Boba Insana flowers. We were actually able to just pick these in the park in town. And so this is ready to cook. So if you're interested in making a concentrate, you'll have to cook it down for many hours. And then I transfer it into a smaller pot when it starts to get kind of thick. You can kind of see how these bubbles are almost making a film. And it has almost the consistency of jello. That means that we're very, very close. You just have to keep the heat low and be careful not to burn it until you have as much moisture cooked as you want. And this facilitates, this facilitates much longer storage without fermentation. 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