Psychotria viridis
The Amazon · Vision · Truth
In the shadowed understory of the rainforest, where light filters through towering trees and the air hums with life, grows a sacred plant known to many as chacrona — Psychotria viridis. Small, unassuming, yet profoundly powerful, she has been revered for generations by Indigenous peoples of the Amazon as a plant of vision, healing, and spiritual revelation.
Botanical Essence
Psychotria viridis is a perennial shrub native to the Amazon Basin. She thrives in the dappled light of the forest floor, with glossy green leaves and delicate branching. Rich in the alkaloid DMT, her leaves form one half of the sacred ayahuasca brew, traditionally prepared in ceremony alongside the vine Banisteriopsis caapi.
Botanically, she is a bridge — between light and shadow, ground and spirit. Her chemistry opens a sensory and symbolic pathway to inner realms, long used for medicine, initiation, and connection with ancestral wisdom.
Ancestral Wisdom
To the spiritual stewards of the Amazon, Psychotria viridis is more than plant — she is a teacher, a guide who “opens the sight behind the eyes.” In ceremony, her spirit walks softly but directly, illuminating what is hidden, dissolving illusion, and reconnecting the seeker to memory, nature, and soul.
Her message is one of clarity without force, vision without escape. She invites us to remember who we are — not as separate beings, but as part of the great woven body of Earth.
“I open the path between words - walk with reverence, and you will remember who you are”.
In a time of ecological forgetting and cultural disconnection, Psychotria viridis offers more than individual insight — she calls for deep listening, for reverence, for healing the ways we see. As part of the Seis collection, she represents the Amazon biome’s spiritual intelligence — a reminder that true vision comes not from the eyes, but from the heart made clear.