Sceletium Tortuosum is a small groundcover plant native to Southern Africa. The Hottentots of Southern Africa used Sceletium tortuosum as a mood enhancer, relaxant and empathogen for hundreds of years.
Sceletium tortuosum has been historically eaten/chewed, smoked or used as snuff producing euphoria and alertness, which then gently fades into relaxation. A mild aneasthetic effect in the mouth, much like kava, is produced if enough is chewed. The San tribes use it this way for tooth extractions. A tea made from Kanna is used to wean off alcohol.
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7 Grams
$10.00
1 oz
$25.00
Thunberg, during his 1773 expedition reported: "The Hottentots come far and near to fetch this shrub with the root, leaves and all, which they beat together, and afterwards twist them up like pig-tail tobacco; after which they let the mass ferment and keep it by them for chewing, especially when they are thirsty. If chewed after fermentation, it intoxicates." Laidler in 1928 noted that Sceletium Tortuosum was "chewed and retained in the mouth for a while, when their spirits would rise, eyes brighten and faces take on a jovial air, and they would commence to dance. But if indulged in to excess, it robbed them of their senses and they became intoxicated.
WARNING! Kanna is believed to act as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI). In combination with common psychiatric medications including other SSRIs (such as Prozac) and MAO Inhibitors, it may cause injury if it was ingested.
