DON LUIS ANDI

Don Luis Andi, 73, is a Kichwa Napusamai Community elder yachak (in the Kichwa Napusamai language, "the one who knows"). Since birth, he has been prepared by his father, also a renowned and powerful yachak, to become a ‘shaman’. For over 40 years, Don Luis has practiced the use of medicinal plants from the forest, specifically to purify the blood for treating diseases and to cleanse spiritual energy with special ceremonies working with the essences derived from Amazonian plants.