When one ingests this plant, it feeds its spirit into something that has nothing to do with the body or the psyche, but something else … “A superior and transcendental instance of the order of pure intelligence, knowledge and wisdom “.
Nicotiana rustica as the Nicotiana tabacum are native to America and the human being knows it since 18000 years.
Some experts in plant genetics determined the place of Tobacco origin.
The place where it was cultivated for the first time is located in the Andean zone, between Peru and Ecuador. The first crops are dated between 5000 and 3000 a.C. Later, it extended to the north. When America was discovered, its use was already developed throughout the continent.
The name of Tabaco, would have its origin or of the Island of Tobago, located in the archipelago of small Antilles where the Tobacco was cultivated, or of the name that the natives gave to their pipe. This tobacco was smoked daily, but also used for large parties, particularly religious, by the Incas and Aztecs.

the traditional use of mapacho tobacco in the amazonian medicine

Tobacco is considered in traditional Amazonian medicine as the master plant of first importance. There is a hierarchy within the master plants, the Tobacco is considered as the father and the Ayahuasca the mother. From a thousand years ago the Indians use it for their purposes Medicines but also to get in touch with the spirit world (to cure a sick person, know if the hunt will be good, know the weather.). In indigenous communities, tobacco was forbidden to ordinary people because it could kill. At the beginning this plant was only used by shamans or priests as a ceremonial plant. Those who used Tobacco were called “the one who eats the Tobacco” (Ashaninka) because it was considered as a food for the spirit or also “the one who blows the Tobacco” (Aguarunas). That is to say: he who is able to blow the Tobacco because this healer has the habilitation and acquired a sufficient degree of control of the powers of the Tobacco to be able to administer it. Managing Tobacco needs great psychic, physical and spiritual control.