Hawaiian Honey Bee Sweetly Pollinating on Home Grown Medicine in the Jungle! ❤️2013
gaiaVision - aka me.
A photoJourney on Impermanence and SustAINAbility. The AINA being Hawaiian Mana or "That Which Feeds Us".
This pollinator is sooooo happy! The honey derived, definitely divine!
This IS Good Medicine The oblong leaves of this special plant are composed of protein, fiber, and vitamin C, as well as high levels of vitamin A, B, D, and E, along with calcium, iron, zinc, phosphorous, and copper, among others.
The leaves also contain alkaloids such as nicotine, hygrine, and ecgonine, in addition to cocaine. Yes, Cocaine.
Go Natural! Grow Wild!
Fun Fact: Coca can grow to 6 feet and live for 60 years! You never need more than one plant in your lifetime.
There are many benefits of Coca. It is definitely a psychoactive producing positive mood and reduction of depression and anxiety!
Coca provides pain relief!
Appetite control, which is important in the areas where it is grown when food is sometimes not as abundant. Aids in awakened energy while consumed during extensive work hours.
Coca is a sacred plant and is revered in a culture that practices it use in prayer and medicinal teas. The ceremony around coca includes sacred items and cloths for carrying all blessed prior to consumption. How we receive its medicine, is how potent it becomes for us each individually. Without processing, coca is an organic substance.
Since coca leaves, when chewed or brewed into a tea, often contain cocaine, it can be a powerful stimulant, like coffee, but without the caffeine. It is best to allow the alkaloids to dry for a few days prior to consumption. It is more potent this way.
❤️ The Journey Continues!
In the past, I have brewed a Jaboticaba / Coca Meade that did not get opened until the one year anniversary after the 2018 Kiluea Lava Eruption that covered the land these plants and honey bees grew on. I was able to save the bottles that were prepared prior to the lava river consuming the home.
Bitter Sweet on the reality check list of life! Not certain if full-fermentation and coca are worth the combination and wait. I feel high percentage alcohol will perverse the natural medicine in the coca. Perhaps the brew was not happy, or the plants resonated their separation as they were left behind with Pele? It all matters. The effect and taste was confusion.
On the spectacular side of reality, I created a recipe of JUN Coca-Cola using Coca leaf, Cola Nut and Honey to process JUN! This was truly a REFRESHING drink, unlike any other I have exprienced. Lightly bubbly, effervescent feeling. Brought laughter to my belly and a lightness to my heart. I can see why Coca-Cola got it's popularity back when coca was an ingredient! I shared the recipe with a few friends in Hawaii. I gave away plants for people to create their own in their private kitchens. The cola nuts also grew on the island and were gifted to me for my ability to work with many different plants to create unique medicines. Anyone ever work with Cola Nut? Its very, very intensely medicine. Combined with the Coca, the alkaloids are a perfect mesh.
A JUN is actually a 2,000 plus Ancient beverage made with a SCOBY mushroom (self-containing organism of bacteria and yest) much like KOMBUCHA, however, instead of sugar to feed the SCOBY, you use HONEY. With the 40 bee hives on the farm, honey was always flowing. The difference between the brews is the same as the difference between sugar and honey. Honey is a nutritive, while sugar is not. Honey is better for glycemic levels, while sugar is not. Sugar dries the cells and causes aging quicker than Honey. The let down of sugar produces a quick inflammation response and a craving for more sugar please! Honey is an antibacterial, antifungal, and a preservative, as well as a menstruum, that allows the good propensities of an herbal to be drawn out and easily consumed. Anytime you use HONEY, you are increasing the potency of whatever you use it in!
I have also created a coconut coca massage oil. Sesame oil coca with damiana was very medicinal. At this time, due to the legalities of the plant where I live, it is no longer available to me. :( So very sadly, I do miss its medicine!
I can feel the pollen and the resonating buzz on this little bee? Can You?
The original was lost in my portfolio and is Crystallized forever more in Hawaii Nei.
... i leave this thought with you today...
IMUA - To stand firmly grounded while being fluid and to move forward with STRENGTH and ease.
Wildly,
Aiyana
For those wondering about legalities: This is regarding ORGANIC PLANT MATERIAL and Cocaine Hydrochloride Schedule II Drug.
United States : Legal Medically, decriminalized in the state of Oregon. Cocaine hydrochloride is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act. It remains legal for medical use. While personal use has been decriminalized in Oregon state, cocaine sales and dispensaries are still illegal.
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