THE AMAZONIAN CHUCHUHUASI.

The great Amazon rainforest is both the most bio-diverse place on Earth, and the largest natural pharmacy. Many hundreds of Amazonian native remedies have been well documented and studied. Among them, one of the most popular is Chuchuhuasi (May'Tenus Kruovii), whose bark has been used as a general remedy for ages. In today Amazonian world, the medicine men (Shamans) and women commonly employ chuchuhuasi for both curative and prophylactic purposes.
CHUCHUHUASI is a very large canopy tree that grows to 30 meters high. It is extremely tough, with heavy, reddish-brown bark, and large leaves measuring 10 to 30 cms. in average.
Chuchuhuasi means "trembling back," which refers to its traditionally long- standing use for relieve pain and inflammation, to restore vigor in ailments that involve the trembling symptoms implicated in chronic degenerative disorders like arthritis, rheumatism, back pain, Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc. Broadly speaking, chuchuhuasi helps to rejuvenate the nervous system and revitalise the nervous tissue.
The bark of the tree contains a variety of naturally-occurring compounds, notably are the two tumor- fighting alkaloids: Mayteine and Maytansine. It is rich in several other alkaloids, tannins, triterpenes, and sesquiterpenes. The bark's pyridine alkaloids are primarily responsible for its anti-arthritis effects.

The anti-tumor agents tingenone and pristimeran account for the treatment of certain cancers, notably those of the skin. 

Chuchuhuasi as all-in-one remedy, and has been used for thousands of years by Amazonian  basin people. The bark is harvested without killing the tree, helping in this way to the conservation of the rain-forest which is the most bio-diverse place on earth and naturally the largest healer in the world.
In traditional Peruvian herbal medicine systems, Chuchuhuasi alcohol extracts are used to treat osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis, stomach ache, etc.
The healers along the Amazon use the Chuchuhuasi as a popular purificator of the negative energies. According to their believes, the lack of harmony between men and nature creates a negative vibration vital to the formation of ailments which find its way among weak, unhealthy, and unprotected bodies.
The purpose of the beverage's consumption among the Amazonian communities, is to balance the duality of forces acting in their land to protect them from unwanted energies that are just waiting the opportunity to break in.
The Chuchuhuasi beverage is prepared by soaking the chuchuhuasi barks into the local sugar-cane rum (aguardiente) sealed it and preserved it during a period of seven days. Then it is shared among all of them.
Sections of the chuchuhuasi bark are commonly sold in herbal markets. Chuchuhuasi liquors, from wines to distilled alcohols show up in grocery stores and airport gift shops.
To say that CHUCHUHUASI is everywhere in the Peruvian soil is not much of an exageration.