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An UNSHAKEABLE HOPE to MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE

Jan 29 2017

On the solid base of cultural and universal values emerging from the spontaneous and not spoiled encounter with Andean Coca, I had the chance to experience, I save carefully the teachings I got from being part and participant of the social claims of Andean People, continuing to be ideally faithful despite the distances, witnessing in my life the cultural, scientific, social, natural and magic values of the sacred green Coca, reconfirming my unconditional – and never betrayed neither neglected – identification with its symbolic essence which becomes soul and future of Peoples.

Jan 29 2017

Coca is the sacred plant of the Andes, occupies a privileged place in the cosmovision of the Andean culture and over 5000 years aggregates the indigenous communities, maintaining strong the cultural roots and being a source of health and physical and mental energy.

According with the results of scientific researches carried out in various parts of the world, it has been confirmed a wide range of nutritional and medicinal contents in Coca leaves, which is an unquestionable fundament to promote its benefits in the form of green products with Coca to be spread worldwide, from which Coca leaves can no longer be separated to be processed into drugs, that anyhow require tons of leaves in addition to chemical precursors to produce a single gram of cocaine hydrochloride, known as the white powder.

Jan 29 2017

01. Progressive approach to high altitude, with regular stops of adaptation, particularly sleeping at intermediate elevations.

02. Arriving by air from sea level to high altitude, one must avoid, since the beginning of the journey, to take heavy and/or abundant meals, carbonated drinks, Coca Cola, coffee, cigarettes; it’s advisable to drink one or two cups of infusion of Coca, the mate de Coca, very hot and concentrated, with a few drops of lemon juice; It’s good to eat some candies or toffees with Coca, when available.

03. Arriving to the altitude the first day, one must rest and sleep as much as possible.

Jan 29 2017

The altitude sickness is a hypoxic syndrome, due to oxygen decrease, resulting in inadequate blood’s oxygenation in the human body, in subjects reaching high levels of altitude.

Not all individuals exposed to high altitude show the corresponding clinical symptoms; with certainty we only know that the majority of symptomatic cases occur during the first few days at altitude: the only safe treatment is the descent to a lower altitude.

Jan 29 2017

The paths of Destiny showed me the way towards the Cultural Nations and not the geographic-political ones, artificially designed on the maps: so there I got … just a few steps from the Bolivian border, impassable to me, in the heart of the Peruvian Andean world, feeling the mysterious auras of the Inca Empire, in Cusco … the same quechua population, the same issues, the same traditions, the same sacred green Coca … I had been separated from …

Jan 29 2017

The time after my expulsion from Bolivia was not easy nor peaceful, but the fact to be safe and fine encouraged me to stay firm, albeit unquietly, on my ideals and commitments in and towards Life, under the blessing look of the sacred green Coca, suggesting new paths to explore.

The traditional use of Coca, except some pockets of inveterate prejudice, is recognized as a founding element of the Andean culture, so calling for a moral engagement to protect and enhance the sense of ritual and community aggregation.

Jan 29 2017

2500-1800 BC In Northern Peru a remarkable finding of traces of Coca leaves in the area of the ruins of Huanca Prieto.

2100 BC In Valdivian culture of Ecuador and in ceramics of Nazca and Mochica cultures in Peru (600-360 BC) relevant findings of traditional use of Coca.

1200-1475 A kind of oils essence extracted from Coca leaves was used by Incas, when practising surgical excision of brain tumors.

Jan 29 2017

“And yet … it moves” … so claimed Galileo Galilei about the movement of the Earth around the Sun and the immobility of the star King, supporting the Copernican theory; he was accused of heresy, neglected by his contemporary society and he died alone, abandoned and nearly blind; however nowadays no one would ever contradict the confirmed hypothesis of Galileo.

Erythroxylum Coca is a shrub about one meter tall, with bright green thin oval shaped leaves, a creamy white flowers and reddish oval fruits similar to berries; it grows on the slopes of the Andes going down to the Amazon, between 600 and 2000 meters above sea level, where it is cultivated.

Jan 29 2017

Here the two sides of the medal of Coca:

GREEN:

Erythroxylum Coca: an alkaloids containing shrub of the Andean-Amazonian biodiversity.

Pijchu: bolus of leaves for traditional use of Coca, cultural and energizing.

Mate de Coca: infusion with Coca leaves, used as a natural medicine, digestive and remedy for altitude sickness.

Green products with Coca: aliments, sweets, drinks, liqueurs, creams, soaps, toothpastes, perfumes, ointments and other, processed with green Coca.

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An UNSHAKEABLE HOPE to MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE

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