Linha de Arrochim (cura)

• Linha – in Santo Daime parlance a linha (“line”) is a current or phalanx of spiritual force and, by extension, the ritual or hymn‑set that invokes it.
• Arrochim / Arroxim – the proper name of a healing spirit that the hymns describe as “um beija‑flor” (a humming‑bird) who comes when invoked “a nove pontos” (at nine points of the compass).

So Linha de Arrochim literally means “the spiritual current (or work) of the spirit Arrochim.”

How it is used inside the Santo Daime tradition

Type of work One of the trabalhos de cura (healing works) carried out in Daime churches alongside Estrela, Mesa‑Branca, etc.
Purpose To help those who are physically or spiritually ill. Participants drink Daime, sing the hymns, and the corrente (current) focuses on diagnosis, karmic understanding and cure.
Hinário A 39‑hymn collection also called “Linha de Arrochim”, compiled in the late 1960s by Padrinho Wilson Carneiro after receiving a healing mission from Mestre Irineu.
Ritual traits The hymns are sung seated, without maracás or instruments until the closing hymns; great concentration and silence are required so the healing current can operate.
Schedule Traditionally performed once a month (often on the Saturday closest to the 30th) while the Trabalho de Estrela earlier in the month is for general cleansing.
Key themes in the hymns Harmony, Truth, Forgiveness; discipline; faith in Jesus, the Virgin Mother and Juramidam; invocation of “os espíritos curadores da Linha de Arrochim.”

Practical meaning for Daimistas

1. Calling specific healing forces – When a Daime church announces a Linha de Arrochim work, members know it will be a night dedicated to personal and collective healing through the intercession of Arrochim and allied spirits.
2. A guide for healers – Many curandeiros/curandeiras memorize the hinário because it sets out step‑by‑step instructions for how to serve, pray for and energetically guard the sick.
3. Cultural marker – The work links present‑day communities to the legacy of Padrinho Wilson and to Mestre Irineu’s early “pronto‑socorro” (spiritual first‑aid post) in Rio Branco, Acre, reminding Daimistas of their roots in folk‑Amazonian medicine.

In short

Linha de Arrochim names both (a) the humming‑bird‑like healing spirit Arrochim and (b) the monthly Santo Daime healing ritual—sung from Padrinho Wilson Carneiro’s hinário—which concentrates the church’s energy on cure, discipline and divine forgiveness through the power of that spirit current.