{"id":981,"date":"2016-02-26T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/?page_id=981"},"modified":"2016-03-05T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:33:22","slug":"chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/?page_id=981","title":{"rendered":"Pachamama (Mother Earth) pharmacist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I had been ailing since Sunday with a stomach bug; by Wednesday I had reached my limit drinking teas and eating<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">toast. I thought about stopping at the pharmacy for a chemical solution. At the last minute I shared my predicament with a couple of native friends; they suggested looking for the plant \u2018Paica\u2019 at the mercado.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When I arrived at the \u2018mercado\u2019 \u2013 market day, the town had swelled with locals from the highlands bringing their produce to sell. After surveying the crowded area I zeroed onto the first vendor at the entry. Her name was Guillermina; she had a tarp on the ground covered with many different plants that looked like common typical weeds. I asked for the Paica, and to my surprise she had it on hand. She proceeded to educate me about its properties, how to prepare it as a tea, as well as other options. She had additional herbs for muscle pain, kidneys stones, liver problems, urinary track infections, etc, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I took the potion for a couple of days; feeling much much better even after the first day. Muchas gracias Guillermina, for not just providing healing; but for dispensing \u2018Pachamamas\u2019 (Mother Earth) wisdom \u2026 earning a much deserved respect from this \u2018modern\u2019 Peruvian\u2026It opened my heart and eyes to its wisdom.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been ailing since Sunday with a stomach bug; by Wednesday I had reached my limit drinking teas and eating\u00a0toast. I thought about stopping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-services.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-981","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateayni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}