Cacao's Medicine in Love and Bliss

Let’s take a journey into the heart of cacao and her gifts.

Chocolate has been a sacred source of food and medicine for many cultures throughout the course our known history. Cacao and her graciousness has been well documented and recorded for its use as a food, medicine, in rituals, ceremony, feasts and festivals. A plant that is woven into the heart of many  ancient cultures and civilisations right across the planet. Reaching into the inner ecologies of all people in all parts of the world.

From Indonesia, reaching all the way across the equatorial line, cacao goes throughout the lands of South East Asia, India, and prolifically and abundantly throughout culture and country  in the Central and Latin Americas and again into the African continent.

I find it poetic that this plant and food, revered  for its reach into love,  is literally wrapping herself around the entire breadth of the earth.  

With such breadth of connection, this is cacaos greatest virtue.

Her nourishment lies at the heart of family. She connects us to a sacred sense of kinship and community. She is wise and ancient with her  evolution here on earth believed to be in existence for over 10 million years.

Cacao and her spirit of generosity.

This gift of a plant brings much prosperity and abundance to the lives of those who farm her, tend to her, grow and harvest her, revere her and who receive her.

This seed of love’s truest essence is in connection, family, community and heart centred experiences of joy. 

Cacao as a whole plant food is well researched and acclaimed as a rich source provider of many useful compounds that our human bodies thrive with and essentially love.

Cacao’s most unique nutritional attribute among many is that she contains a compound known as the bliss compound…Theobromine. A primary bitter-tasting alkaloid found in cocoa and chocolate that has profound effects on our mood, our energy, our sense of well being. Known as the compound of love.

The love and bliss factor.

Theobromine  exists naturally in a variety of plants but most notably in the cacao bean (other sources include coffee beans, guarana berries, and some tea leaves.)

This compound has so many health benefits, and in particularly is known to have direct synergy and relationship  on our cardiovascular systems. Cacao’s more scientific rationale as the food associated most with love and matters of the heart.

This bliss compound is known to lower blood pressure, support the bodies healthy balance and ratios of  high and low density cholesterols and support healthy peripheral circulation. 

Theobromine is also a stimulant which gives us the boost and kick effect when we drink her yet differs from that of caffeine being more milder in effect and yet more sustained in our bodies. 

This compound enriches blood flow to the brain and is a great cognitive pick me up.

Nourishing ways in which Cacao serves  us?

Cacao in its whole form also contain the amino acids of tryptophan, tyrosine and phenylethylamine that all work together and synergistically enhancing those cosy feelings of wellbeing, happiness, and joy.

A natural, healthy, delicious and highly nutritious  way to get your happy  on. To lift your spirit, your mood and your connection into a place where love resides, opens up and gives back.

Cacao, her fats and compounds are packed with these and more bliss compounds that light up our brain and activate our centre of pleasure and joy.

ANANDAMIDE The compound  that gives us a euphoric feeling when we drink her! Incredibly anandamide is ONLY found in two sources, the human brain and cacao!

SEROTONIN - This is the ‘happy chemical’ in our brains. Cacao contains serotonin, as well as contains tryptophan which helps to naturally stimulate more serotonin production.

TRYPTOPHAN - This is the precursor to serotonin which allows your brain to naturally produce more happy chemicals.

TYROSINE - This is the precursor to dopamine which has us feeling a sense of bliss, motivation and concentration

PHENETHYLAMINE - ‘PEA’ is the LOVE chemical that gives you that feeling of falling in love!! PEA also helps to boost your mood and increases your focus and concentration while also increasing your memory and metabolismThe true medicine of cacao is in her most natural form.

Unlike the highly processed and reduced version of cacao or cocoa, ceremonial grade cacao is made traditionally with deep intentional practice and reverence. Ceremonial grade or raw whole cacao is  chocolate in its most pure, most natural edible and nutritious state. Retaining all the healing properties and with the true holy spirit of cacao.

Always connect to the source of your cacao for this connects you to her true essence.

Cacao is a heart healing plant medicine used by ancient Mayans and other civilisations in ceremony. In connection. By combining elements of ceremony with your own daily cacao, you can create a potent daily practice that has you tuned in, filled with intention, gratitude, creativity and connection. A place of heart felt presence.

Plant Power

Packed full of goodness cacao is one of the most concentrated sources of magnesium, calcium, chromium, and antioxidants found in nature. It contains one of the  most richest sources of  antioxidants, magnesium and fibre. Cocoa is rich in polyphenols and flavanoids, which have significant health benefits, helping reduce inflammation, improve circulation and enhance brain function.

Together all these ingredients combined with bursts of Riboflavin (B2), Niacin (B3), Folate (B9) , Vit B6, Thiamin (B1), Vit K, Pantothenic Acid (B5), Vit E, Manganese, Copper, Magnesium, Iron, Phosphorus, Zinc, Potassium,Selenium, Calcium is an epic nurtitonal profile for a plant food.

What a gift from the gods!!

So next time you reach for your hot chocolate, consider her in all her glory and reach for ceremonial grade raw whole cacao, from source. 

We are so so grateful to have a stock of Holy Wow Cacao her @ Shine and are honoured to be the primary stockists in Australia for this exquisite product.

As pure from source, in her richness, with only the loving hands and hearts of her stewards, this cacao is as close to an origin product as you can get.

You can learn more about Holly Wow Cacao and their cacao alchemy and community by clicking the above link.

Feel how she connects you to your own source, to your nature, to your loved ones.

Cacao, the embodiment of love and bliss.