Everything you need to know about San Pedro or Huachuma
What does huachuma mean?
The word wachuma, in Quechua, literally means, "to be headless, head off, cut off the head, cut off the ego." The Spanish Jesuit monks, upon arriving in the new world and coming into contact for the first time with the rituals that had this plant, were surprised with the therapeutic and spiritual capacity of the wachuma. These, in turn, quickly understood the healing power of the echinopsis pachanoi and named it the Saint Peter's cactus, in honor of the patron saint of the Catholic Church and custodian of the gates of heaven.
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