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Apurina Awiry Purus

10 Ml, 7 Gr from Brazil (SKU 4400)

(Batch #3402) New! Apurina Awiry Purus has a flowery scent and literally smells like being in the middle of the jungle. Very opening and deeply subtle. Similar to the other Apurina blends, yet with a more flowery aftertaste. This Rapé serves as a mild yet intelligent tool for the beginner, or for those that prefer a Rapé that is mild in Tabaco, as it is a green leaf variety that is unfermented. It of course also blends well with Tabaco or Rapé or ashes, to create a personal and unique Rapé blend. More information can be read below.

Packed in 10 ml clear PETG bottles containing 7 gr.

Part

bottle

Volume

10 ml 25 ml

Weight

7 gr

Qty

max: 5


This green Rapé Apurina Awiry Purus produces a beautiful, yet sometimes mild effect, with the traditional green jungle overtones. The scents of the forest blend together to create one of the finest of Rapés. A deeply pleasant aroma with a fresh and heightened awareness. Apurina generally is made with Awiri, a special green Tabaco that grows wild along the rivers. Because it grows close to the river this Rapé can only be made in the dry season, and for that reason is quite rare and special. The Tabaco is not fermented nor heated to dry and grind it, so it is considered a raw, living Rapé.

Frequent users of the grey Rapé types will most likely find it "unnoticeable" in small quantities. Yet when used in a fresh state of awareness and with a clear channel the Apurina has an intense sharp slicing quality not unlike the Nunu from the Matses tribe. This Rapé has a more flowery scent and literally smells like being in the middle of the jungle. Very opening and deeply subtle. Similar to the other Apurina blends, yet with a more flowery aftertaste.

This Rapé serves as a mild yet intelligent tool for the beginner, or for those that prefer a wild fresh Tabaco Rapé. It of course also blends well with other Tabacos, Rapé or ashes, to create a personal and unique blend. This batch of Apurina is of an extremely fine powder. Origin: Brazil, Acre.

The Apurina make a unique Rapé that differs from most other Amazonian Rapés, as they do not use any ashes or fermented Tabaco in their mixtures. As the Apurina make their Rapé according to an old traditional recipe, they would not share the exact ingredients with us.

This is an extremely fine powder, creamy to the touch. It takes great effort to produce such a fine powder, entirely void of stems, veins, grains and bits, and at a 150 micron fineness. This is our standard because this produces the best Rapé experience. All of our Rapé varieties, be it a genuinely tribal Rapé, Cinza (ashes), or Tabaco powder, we process this to a high standard and consistent fineness, using laboratory grade sieves and milling equipment.

The Apurina tribe consists of approximately 2000 - 4000 members that are distributed over 27 indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon around the Purus River. Due to their migratory habits, the Apurina are spread over a large area, and it is hard to estimate precise numbers of their tribe. Every community in a given region of this big tribe has their own social organization. Yet, all Apurini people speak Maipure-Aruak and call themselves ‘Popingaré’ or ‘Kangite’, meaning ‘people’ or ‘humans’ (Facundes 1994). Female tribe members are skilled at making baskets, brooms, and pottery, and also beautiful snuff boxes off snail, metal, and rubber residues and the according rapé blow pipes.

Shamanism is an important part of the Apurina culture. The Apurina shamans work with stones, and heal with a special leaf that they chew – ‘katsoparu’ – and with a lot of snuff that the shaman and other tribe members consume and which they call ‘awire’. For the actual healing, the shaman sucks the illness out of the bodies, often visualized by stones that they extract from their sick bodies. Afterwards, the shaman inserts the stone in his own body and recommends different plant treatments. Another shamanistic way of treating sick people is by dreaming: the shaman’s spirit travels and carries out specific tasks, guided by other animal spirits and the chiefs of the animal spirits – which they consider themselves shamans. Often the shaman’s role is to guide these animal spirits, in order to prevent animals, like snakes or a jaguars from attacking. It is believed that a strong shaman never dies but becomes enchanted and continues his travelling. 

More information on the Apurina

Leonel, 25 years old, father of 2 kids, is a gifted handicraft artist and just finished his pharmacology studies. 
When he was 15 years old he started to show interest in spirituality and native roots of his country Brasil. Many paths started to unfold, and in 2011 he had the chance to work with Yagé for the first time. During 2012 he frequently visited Yagé ceremonies and began to develop a deep interest in study of native cultures and forest medicines. He also joined a native medicine songs study group where heʼs been part for a couple of years. 
End of 2012, on a trip to beautiful Chapada dos Veadeiros brought him deeper into Rapé and the early months of 2013 brought a feeling of a growing urge to dedicate himself to this powerful jungle medicine and to dive deeper into the living science of it. 
The same year at a singing session of the native songs study group they received some native visitors from the Fulni-o tribe of Pernambuco in northeast Brasil whom joined in for some songs and Leonel began to feel deep appreciation for those people and their culture which led into the beginning of an a extended friendship with some of them. 
End 2013 he met a famous Rapé producer and transpersonal psychotherapist, well respected for his work with Rapé and holding space in forest medicine circles. Since the first encounter they both felt the flow and after some months Leonel could start working with him learning the fine arts of manufacturing and the traditional recipes gathered from different tribes. He also could assist in the circles with his songs and the Rapé, this period in his life being his time as an apprentice. 
In the year 2014 after ceremony where the brothers from the Funi-O tribe assisted, Leonel began to manifest the vision of a close partnership with them, bringing them from far northeast Pernambuco to Sao Paolos concrete jungle to enhance cultural exchange and to open them doors to apply their traditional medicines (Jurema), but also offering them a platform to sell their artwork and handicraft. Since then he has travelled with members of the tribe to several Brazilian cities following the same purpose and interconnecting also with other tribes living on the Brazilian territoryʼs. Through this work he got in contact with members of several tribes that all contributed a lot to his studies of the matter and brought him to a deeper level of knowledge. These tribes are the Huni Kuin (Acre), Yawanawa (Acre), Kariri-Xoco (Alagoas), Katukina (Acre), Guarani (Sao Paolo), Pataxo (Bahia) and the Huichol people from Mexico.
Nowadays his manufacturing skills are firm and strong and after all these years he continues making his Rapé in an artisanal way following the traditions he learned, instead of using any machine help during the main process he stamps hours with the traditional pilão and sings to the medicine, but he is also being open to new trends, fusions and creative ideas. He uses best quality pure tobacco originating from the Northeast of the country and the best quality ashes coming from the Brazilian amazon, all ingredients originating from native sources. 
The work heʼs doing serves as a bridge between native cultures and between traditional systems of medicine, environmental management and traditional art. 
His mission is to open access for people to this cultures and to facilitate access to traditional medicine of good quality in Brazil and abroad, always working in cooperation with other partners. His academical work during his formation as a pharmacologist  the last years focussed mainly on the sciences of ethnobotany, ethnofarmacology and pharmacognosy, planning and realising studies about the potential of medicinal plants as a treatment for arterial hypertension and studying and developing ideas for natural cosmetic and other natural products.
 

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