❦Learning from the Master Plants
The Sateré-Mawé myth of the child whose eyes were planted in the earth, the bastão grated on the tongue of the pirarucu, the seed's caffeine told plainly, and our guarana powder from Brazil.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Bobinsana, Chuchuhuasi, Ajo Sacha, Cat's Claw, Mucuna, Mulungu, Ayahuma, Noya Rao, Chiric Sanango, Toé, Renaco, Lupuna. The master plants of the Shipibo diéta.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
In the high Peruvian Amazon, among the Shipibo-Conibo, the Asháninka, the Shawi, the Awajún, there is a discipline that no English translation fully renders: la dieta. Not a diet. A retreat with a master plant, for weeks or months, under strict conditions — no salt, no sugar, no meat, no sex, no alcohol. The plant teaches. The dieter listens. Don Solón Tello Lozano, Pablo Amaringo, the onaya curanderos passed on to us what it was permitted to pass on.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Onaya, dieta, icaros, four realms — the Shipibo-Konibo cosmology of the Peruvian Ucayali through Pablo Amaringo, Luis Eduardo Luna, and Don Solón Tello. Bobinsana, Chuchuhuasi, Ajo Sacha: plant pedagogy as it is still passed down today.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
The devil's bush of the taiga, the ci wu jia of the Chinese herbals, which in the 1960s became the root of the Vladivostok pharmacologists and then of the cosmonauts. Its story, and our root as a decoction.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
The devil's bush of the taiga, the ci wu jia of the Chinese herbals, which in the 1960s became the root of the Vladivostok pharmacologists and then of the cosmonauts. Its story, and our root as a decoction.
❦The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
A black lump on the living birch, ten winters or more to grow. The tradition of chaga, from the Khanty to the Anishinaabe shkitagen, and our chaga wild-harvested in Estonia.
❦The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
The yartsa gunbu of the Tibetan high pastures, its harvest, its place in Chinese medicine, and our 6:1 extract of Cordyceps sinensis CS-4 mycelium, made in Estonia.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
The lingzhi of the Taoists, the mannentake of Japan: the tradition of reishi, from Magu to the edict of 1004, and what we offer, as wild Siberian slices or a 15:1 extract.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
The vine has claws — not to attack, but to climb. Uncaria tomentosa's curved hooks are the exact image of its teaching: one does not rise alone. 2000 years of Asháninka use, 80 generations of transmission. Modern pharmacology is only confirming what the rainforest already knew.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
In Quechua, he is not named for his beauty, but for what he treats: Chuchuhuasi — the trembling back. In Shipibo-Conibo cosmology, he is the grandfather tree: vast, dark bark, unshakeable, silent.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Thirty plants — and more broadly thirty categories of practice — that we refuse to sell. The INFUSE Ethical Manifesto 2026 gathers all our refusals by category and by lineage. Signature pillar, 6,500 words, named sources, indigenous voices cited.
☥The Witch Plants
Mandragora officinarum is one of the most anciently attested plants of the Western pharmacopoeia. From the Bible to Hildegard, a surgical anaesthetic for 1,500 years. Today reduced to a prop in a children's novel. INFUSE refuses that, and restores her depth.
☥The Witch Plants
Christopher Alexander spent his life searching for why some places are alive and others dead. Silvia Federici spent hers understanding why modernity burned the women who knew how to inhabit them. Lewis Hyde showed that the gift circulates differently from the commodity. Set at the same table, the three write a manual of dwelling — addressed first of all to those whom history has stripped of the tools.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
The opening of the heart is worked with lineages able to give — ceremonial cacao of the Kekchi and Tz'utujil Maya of Guatemala, Shipibo Bobinsana, European Mugwort. Hikuri, the peyote of the Wixáritari, takes 10 to 30 years to mature, and its desert is collapsing. INFUSE will never sell it, in any form.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
For visionary work, INFUSE traces slower paths — Maya ceremonial cacao, Mugwort of the dream thresholds, traceable Blue Lotus. Salvia divinorum will never be one of them: the Pastora del Cielo belongs to the Mazatec curanderas, and María Sabina warned us.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
The word smudge has become a synonym for spiritual purification. Lighting a white sage bundle in a Brooklyn yoga studio, in Berlin, in Paris. A gesture neutralized, performed, commercialized. Meanwhile the Cherokee, the Lakota, the Diné are publishing calls to stop — the white sage of the Californian desert is endangered by overharvesting. And white sage is only one among dozens of the world's sacred smoke-plants: Zulu Imphepho, Quechua Palo Santo, Maya Copal, European Rue, Asian Mugwort. This article does not say you cannot burn plants. It says there is a civilizational difference between purifying (a gesture of power) and inviting (a gesture of relationship). INFUSE chooses the second.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Bursera graveolens — listed under CITES Appendix II since 2016. Naturally dead wood + 4-10 years of drying in situ = the medicine. Felling living trees + opaque trade = the present crisis. INFUSE refuses anything untraced, and explains why.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
The Amazonian master plants INFUSE walks with — Ajo Sacha, Bobinsana, Chuchuhuasi — are met one by one, in the patience of the dieta. The vine does not travel by parcel: ayahuasca is a ritual frame inseparable from living lineages. INFUSE refuses to sell it — and explains, drawing on Amazonian and academic sources.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Salvia apiana — Californian white sage is in a crisis of commercial overharvest. The Chumash, Tongva and Cahuilla peoples are asking us to stop. INFUSE declines to sell it and offers Imphepho, Mugwort and Rosemary as traced alternatives.
☥The Witch Plants
Lewis Hyde showed that authentic creativity works like a gift in circulation — not like a property to be hoarded. What the figure of the trickst...
❦Learning from the Master Plants
She smells like garlic — but she grows in the Amazon and has no genetic link to common garlic. The Shipibo-Conibo call her the Opener: the first dieta in the formation of a curandero, the plant that prepares the ground for all the others to truly enter.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
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