Relief for Medicine Man Orlando Chujandama Huzanga

A keeper of the forest, a lineage holder and traditional indigenous healer in the vast tradition of Amazonian Vegetalismo

Orlando has healed thousands of people who have come to visit his traditional retreat and healing center near Tarapoto, Peru.  He is continuing to serve his local community at a time when it is more difficult for people to travel to work with him. COVID has hit Peru very hard. The situation is desperate with basic necessities becoming more and more difficult to obtain and forms of income have been greatly restricted. 

We are creating a small relief fund for Orlando Chujandama Huazanga and his family, who live in the high Amazonian region of the Huallaga River, near Tarapoto, Peru.   Orlando supports more than himself and his family, he supports his entire community.

Orlando is a Curandero Vegetalista, a traditional indigenous healer, who cures physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual illnesses through the practice of Vegetalismo, the vast Amazonian tradition of herbalism practiced for centuries in the Amazon.  Orlando has healed thousands of people who come to visit his traditional retreat and healing center. 


Born in the small village of Llucayanacu, he was raised partially by his grandfather, Don Aquilino Chujandama one of the most respected masters in the field of Vegetalismo in the region. After his grandfather’s death he moved to Tarapoto where he followed his education. He came back to the field of Vegetalismo at the age of 30. His traditional apprenticeship and training in the art of Amazonian traditional healing was arduous, including long (more than 12 months), strict isolation in the jungle under the guidance of master plants and his grandfather in dreamtime.  The traditional Amazonian medicine ways create a powerful and intimate relationship with the natural world, where a deep knowledge of fauna and flora of the jungle is held closely and carried by its proponents. Their knowledge is related to the traditional materia medica of thousands of medicinal plants native to the Peruvian Amazon. Masters in this tradition are precious storehouses of knowledge, healing and transformation for humanity.


Orlando now lives in Tarapoto with his wife and 5 children and has a modest, traditional center to receive small groups and patients in the village he was born in - on the banks of the Huallaga river close to Chazuta at Llucayanacu.


This is a desperate and challenging time for Orlando and his family. Pease consider donating to him in this time of crisis. Whatever you can give is most appreciated.

In Orland's words,  "In Peru, COVID has killed many people and in the jungle  especially in San Martín Tarapoto. 
The virus has left many people without work and without anything to eat at home and in their family. Nowadays people are trying to survive and every day the poverty and misery is growing. In the jungle,
hunger is another evil that is affecting families. At the moment, we do not have work because all kinds of activity are paralyzed. I work with those who came to receive healing. I can not do it because they are great restrictions on entry to Peru and within the borders.  I do not know the end."