Are you already interested in dietas and plant medicine?
Have you done a dieta, or are you considering entering this path?
Dieta is not a badge, nor a cumulative achievement. It is not something that becomes “more valid” by stacking experiences or displaying them publicly. Yet increasingly, it is being treated this way by those looking to offer the next thing for the insatiable consumers.
Alongside this trend, there is a growing assumption about dietas, among those without a solid foundation in pharmacology, herbalism, or traditional dieta practice. They conclude that combining multiple plants will naturally create a stronger or more effective dieta. The idea of a “super dieta” “three-in-one” is appealing to the naive, but it reflects a misunderstanding of how plant medicines actually act within the organism.
We do not “max” dietas.
I’m addressing this directly because a particular combination has gained popularity in retreats and is frequently presented as a comprehensive solution for healing the heart. And let’s be real, the marketing is top-notch. However, this combination is not supported by an understanding of plant dynamics, vibration, or directional action. When I refer to a plant’s “vortex,” in the coming paragraphs, I am describing the directional tendency a substance induces in the organism—whether it draws inward, expands outward, lifts, disperses, or contains.
The popular triad I’m referring to is rose, bobinsana, and cacao. The appeal is obvious, heart healing is universally desirable, and the promise of amplifying it threefold is compelling. The desire to heal deeply is not the issue, and I don’t question that motivation.
My concern arises from experience.
A significant portion of my work involves supporting people who have crossed dietas, overstimulated themselves with plant medicines, or participated in poorly contained ceremonial contexts. In many cases, the issue is not the plant itself, but the way it was combined or applied.
Before discussing the plants individually, it’s important to be precise about what dieta is in the context I have practiced since 2013.
Dieta is a disciplined, largely solitary process in which sensory input is minimized so that the dietero can perceive the subtler communications of themselves and the plant they are ingesting to allow genuine regulation and repair to take place. Dieta is not entertainment, and it is not designed for stimulation. While meaningful experiences do occur, the process is fundamentally one of restraint, containment, and listening. It is also highly individualized. Although there are rare cases in which plants may be dieted together, these are exceptions that require discernment and experience. With that clarified, we can look at why this particular triad is incompatible.
Let’s begin with our soft and subtle friend rose. Rose creates an inward movement within the organism. It supports emotional containment, boundary repair, and the gathering of fragmentation back toward the heart. Its action is cooling, calming, and narrowing. In directional terms, it can be understood as an inward or counterclockwise movement.
Bobinsana, a well-known “viral” Amazonian heart medicine, acts in the opposite direction. Its movement is expansive and lifting. It increases emotional permeability and sensitivity, particularly where the heart has been long constrained. Bobinsana opens relational and perceptual channels, making boundaries more porous rather than more defined. Its action is typically experienced as upward and outward, though my personal experience inside the energy of bobinsana has shown the previous to be true and it has also shown the energy body functioning in the infinity loop or a torus field, always expanding.
When these two are combined, their directional actions interfere with one another. In homeopathic terms, we would say the remedies obstruct each other’s vital action on the vital force—opposing dynamic vectors. The same principle applies in herbalism. When plants with opposing directional tendencies are taken together, their effects are often muted or scattered rather than integrated. For the person dieting, this can manifest as mixed or fluctuating signals, which complicates interpretation and undermines the purpose of dieta—to receive a clear signal from yourself and/or the plants.
Adding cacao intensifies this interference. Cacao is strongly outward-moving, warming, circulatory, and dispersive. It amplifies emotional tone and pushes content toward expression. Its effect is social and activating by nature. Introducing cacao into a space that is meant to be quiet, contained, and perceptually refined overwhelms both the inward consolidation of rose and the subtle opening of bobinsana.
What results is not depth, but noise.
Those who have dieted understand that desensitization is essential for hearing plant communication clearly. When multiple opposing vectors are introduced simultaneously, the energetic field becomes saturated, and the dietero/a is left sorting stimulation rather than receiving guidance. I have repeatedly observed the aftermath of such experiences: confusion, overstimulation, and a need for extended grounding with the intention of full clearing before any true integration can occur.
Rather than continuing with abstract explanation, I’ll would like to leave you with a practical inquiry.
Given the directional actions described here, what do you notice about how these plants interact when taken together? Have you experienced different directional vortexes than the one’s mentioned?
Are you seeking support after confusing or crossed ceremonies or dietas?
Or are you interested in engaging plant diets with proper structure, containment, and discernment?
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