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The Social Relation to Plants

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In beginning times plants like animals were human and still retain these qualities hidden in leafy form. They are thus no less animate, no less closely related to us than say a spider monkey might be. One reason that we don't notice this is that their sleep cycle is opposite our own. Trees and other plants sleep during the day and come awake at night when we are dreaming. It is for this reason that they appear active and humanlike in dreams. For example, when sick person ingests medicinal bark it triggers a healing relation to the tree that only becomes visible at night. That night, when the tree wakes up, it comes to the patient in a dream as a human doctor come to treat her ailment.

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Allyan Pasu

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Chunda

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Manduru

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Kwica Panga

Plants Finder

Tsituli panga / Supay Chagra

Clidemia heterophylla

Melastomataceae

Tsula

Cecropia peltata

Urticaceae

Tsula yura

Cecropia ficifolia

Urticaceae

Urku Tukuta

Guarea macrophylla

Meliaceae

Uchu

Capsicum frutescens

Solanaceae

Uchulumbas, Turu Aviu

Duroia hirsuta

Rubiaceae

Umu

Chamaedorea pauciflora

Arecaceae

Uña de Gato

Uncaria tomentosa

Rubiaceae

Wagra simayuka

Palicourea cenepensis

Rubiaceae

Wambula

Minquartia guianensis

Olacaceae

Wanduk

Brugmansia insignis

Solanaceae

Urpi chunda

Aiphanes ulei

Arecaceae

Waranga

Parkia multijuga

Fabaceae

Waska shia

Mikania cordifolia

Asteraceae

Waysa

Ilex guayusa

Aquifoliaceae

Wiki Muyu

Lacmellea klugii

Apocynaceae

Wituk / Ituk

Genipa americana

Rubiaceae

Yaku pakay

Inga sp.

Fabaceae

Yana pudzu ala

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Yarina

Phytelephas macrocarpa

Arecaceae

Yawar panga / Machora panga

Columnea ericae

Gesneriaceae

Yawati Kaspi / Ambi Iluchi

Abuta grandifolia

Menispermaceae

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Maieta guianensis

Melastomataceae

Wangana panga

Goeppertia ecuadoriana

Marantaceae

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Senna georgica

Fabaceae

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Protium sp.

Burseraceae

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Costus scaber

Costaceae

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Piper poporense

Piperaceae

Chingana kaspi

Pseudolmedia sp.

Rubiaceae

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Naucleopsis concinna

Lauraceae

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Rhodostemonodaphne kunthiana

Lauraceae

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Sapium glandulosum

Euphorbiaceae

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Telitoxicum sp

Menispermaceae

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Piper sp.

Piperaceae

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Eriotheca globosa

Malvaceae

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Inga chartacea

Fabaceae

Ruyak kara kaspi

Anaxagorea sp.

Annonaceae

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Dioscorea trifida

Dioscoraceae

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Casearia prunifolia

Salicaceae

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Solanum quitoense

Solanaceae

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Virola sp.

Myristicaceae

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Rollinia pittieri

Annonaceae

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Pentagonia sp.

Rubiaceae

Urku wapa

Virola multinervia

Myristicaceae

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Philodendron ornatum

Araceae

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Alchorneopsis floribunda

Euphorbiaceae

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Begonia

Begoniaceae

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Arachis pintoi

Fabaceae

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Buchenavia sericantha

Combretaceae

Ruyak pumbuchi

Erisma uncinatum

Vochysiaceae

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Gloeospermum sp.

Violaceae

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Piper sp.

Piperaceae

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Calathea inocephala

Marantaceae

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Nephelium lappaceum

Sapindaceae

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Anpelocera edentula

Ulmaceae

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Stigmaphyllon sp.

Malpighiaceae

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Columnea ineaquilatera

Gesneriaceae

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Alibertia patinoi

Rubiaceae

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Guatteria sp.

Annonaceae

Atun siku papa

Quararibea sp.

Malvaceae

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Casearia sp.

Salicaceae

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Costus erythrocoryne

Costaceae

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Protium nodulosum

Burseraceae

Sacha misapu ruya

Leptobalanus granvillei

Chrysobalanaceae

Guacamaya Kuwan

Heliconia stricta

Heliconiaceae

Chuku chuku kambi

Theobroma speciosum

Malvaceae

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Pseudolmedia macrophylla

Moraceae

Turu ishpingu

Licaria triandra

Lauraceae

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Piper conejoense

Piperaceae

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Cytrus sp.

Rutaceae

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