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AMBIL PASTE - Kamëntsá Tribe
AMBIL PASTE - Kamëntsá Tribe
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Ambil is a type of paste created from Amazonian plants that are grown and harvested through prayer by indigenous communities. Often called the blood of the tobacco, it is used by various tribes of Colombia and Peru.
The process of making the paste involves cooking fresh leaves in water over a wood fire for up to 3 days until it becomes a paste-like consistency. This paste is used primarily by ingesting during prayer and meditation and connecting through conversation. It can also be used topically on cuts, wounds, and bug bites for fast healing.
Ambil has various benefits such as realigning our chakras, especially opening the throat chakras emotionally grounding us, and promoting positive and sincere conversations, intention in our words, and insightful thoughts. It is also believed to be a means of carrying prayers to the Creator and connecting us to the divine masculine within or Father Spirit within, and also helps to heal the father wound.
This Ambil is made lovingly by Master Shaman & Curandero Taita Bernardo Chindoy of the Kamëntsá tribe of Colombia.
Instructions:
Traditionally, Ambil is used by dipping the tip of the pinky finger (the finger of humility) into the paste and applying it along the gum line in the mouth. Keep it in your mouth for 5-15 minutes, swallowing minimally and allowing the medicinal compounds to absorb through the mouth, as you commune with the medicine. After you are complete, swallow the remainder of the ambil that remains. Store at room temperature, away from sunlight.
All Ambil sales are final! No returns accepted since we cannot ensure proper handling of the product once it leaves our facility.
About the Maker: Taita Bernardo Chindoy
Taita Bernardo is a revered master of the Kamëntsá people of the Sibundoy Valley, Colombia, with decades of experience in traditional healing, medicine making, and spiritual guidance. He is known not only as a curandero and ceremonial leader, but also as a father, grandfather, and teacher who carries his lineage with integrity, humility, and strength.
He creates sacred medicines for many other healers who do not have direct access to the jungle — offering yagé and other plant remedies to Taitas' across Colombia and beyond. This role is reserved for the most trusted and powerful medicine men. The yagé and other remedies he prepares are served to tens of thousands — perhaps even hundreds of thousands — of individuals each year.
He knows the jungle by heart, having studied each plant not just academically, but through direct communion with its spirit. He lives in harmony with the land, healing alongside his family, and walking the medicine path with deep humility, strength, and devotion.
Lineage: The Chindoy Legacy & Entheobotanical History
Taita Bernardo is the grandson of Salvador Chindoy, the legendary Kamëntsá shaman.In the 1940s, Salvador Chindoy played a pivotal role in the preservation and transmission of Amazonian plant knowledge when he took Richard Evans Schultes under his guidance in the Sibundoy valley of Colombia. Schultes would later become known as the father of modern ethnobotany, helping bring the wisdom of sacred plants to the wider world.
In the image above, you see grandfather and grandson standing side by side — two men, two moments in time, separated by nearly 70 years, yet united by lineage and mission. The black-and-white portion shows Salvador Chindoy ~1945, symbolizing the ancestral past and the root of this sacred tradition. The color section captures Taita Bernardo ~2015, representing the continuation of that medicine — still vibrant today
Taita Bernardo caries a living portal. A bridge between timelines. Between the black-and-white of ancestral memory and the full-color presence of living in this moment. He walks between worlds, bringing forward the wisdom of the grandfathers while tending the needs of the now
This lineage is not something preserved in old photographs or sealed away in history books. It is alive. And it lives through the hands, prayers, and breath of those who carry it with integrity.
Since February 2018, I have had the honor of apprenticing under Taita Bernardo Chindoy. At a time when I was deeply broken, he opened his home to me, allowed me to live with him and his family in the jungle, and entrusted me with his teachings. What he offered was not just knowledge, but responsibility—guidance rooted in humility, discipline, and devotion to the plants and the people they serve
This is the lineage of Taita Salvador Chindoy.
This is the lineage of Taita Bernardo Chindoy.
This is the lineage of Spirit Visions.
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