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Kanna's Active Alkaloids: A Comprehensive Guide

The ultimate guide to Kanna alkaloids explores the plant's primary compounds, focusing on their roles in mood enhancement and cognitive benefits. Key alkaloids like mesembrine and mesembrenone are ...

Kanna Extract Dosage: Optimal Use Guide

Kanna extract serving sizes depend on alkaloid content, the extract type and your own sensitivity. For stronger extracts like MT-55, MZO and FS-33 a beginner starting point is around 25 to 50 mg, a...

Extract Profiles and What They Mean: A Healing Herbals Explanation

Each of our kanna extracts has its own alkaloid profile, and that's why they feel different. MT-55 and MZO are the high-mesembrine, more energizing picks, XK6 and IX lean relaxed and gentle, VU3 si...

Kanna and SSRIs: Exploring Potential Interactions

Kanna and SSRIs both act on serotonin, so taking them together could push serotonin too high and raise the risk of serotonin syndrome, which is rare but serious. Don't combine them without talking ...

Discovering the Dual Use of Our Blue Lotus Vape Juice

Our alcohol-free blue lotus tincture pulls double duty. You can take it under the tongue like a normal tincture, and because it has no alcohol and the right liquid consistency, it also works as vap...

Kanna: South Africa's Natural Mood-Boosting Herb

Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum) is a South African succulent the Khoikhoi and San have chewed, smoked and snuffed for centuries to lift mood and ease hunger and stress.

Sceletium Phytochemistry

Sceletium tortuosum, commonly known as kanna, channa, or kougoed, is a succulent plant from the Aizoaceae family and Mesembryanthemum genus, native to South Africa's Cape Provinces. Its...

Different types of Kanna Extract?

Kanna extract comes as powder, tincture, resin, capsules, gum and isolated alkaloids, sold under names like MT55, XK6 and MZO. Be skeptical of 10x, 20x and 100x ratio extracts with no reliable lab ...

Blue Lotus: Potential Side Effects and Risks

"While Blue Lotus is generally safe with mild effects, potential side effects include nausea and dizziness, especially at higher doses. Caution is advised regarding interactions with medications an...

Our Kanna Sourcing

Most of our kanna is now grown at our own leased nursery in South Africa, where an on-site lab makes our extract. Organically grown, benefit-sharing with the San and Khoikhoi, and licensed for export.