Lions Tail Dried Wild Dagga Petals

Lions Tail, also know as Motherwort, belongs to the mint family of plants.

Wild Dagga is smoked or made into a medicinal tea by the Hottentot tribe of South Africa. Because of its euphoric effects and marijuana-like experience, Wild Dagga is often referred to as a Cannabis substitute. Leonotis leonurus (Wild Dagga, Lion's Tail) species is also used in Eastern medicine as euphoriant, purgative, and vermifuge.

The main uses of lion’s tail in western herbal medicine are to relieve premenstrual discomfort, ease menopausal symptoms, and regulate menstrual periods. In addition, it may have some effectiveness for normalizing rapid heartbeat -- especially when a "pounding heart" is associated with anxiety.

Less intense and overwhelming trips were reported when smoking lions tail with salvia divinorum.

Dosage:

0. Smoked: 1-2 grams of Lion’s tail
   
   
0. Tea: prepared by soaking about 2 grams or about 1/4 of a teaspoon of dried Lion’s Tail in about 5 ounces of boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes. The solid particles should be strained out and the somewhat bitter-tasting tea may be sweetened or flavored with other herbals such as ginger before drinking it. Usual recommendations are to drink one cup of motherwort tea three times a day.

Prickly Poppy

Prickly poppy is a stout, prickly-stemmed annual to perennial 2' to 5' tall with pale yellowish sap, and alternate lanceolate to ovate leaves that are deeply-lobed, prickly, and at least in the upper clasping at the base.

It is often made into a tea and has been used as an anesthetic for surgery due to owning many of the same chemicals as its namesake, the poppy plant (papaver somniferum). It has been used to treat cancer, the common cold, fever, inflammation, and toothache in the past. This poppies chemical constituents include protopine, berberine, and several isoquinilines.

White Lotus

The white lotus is a shallow-water, night-blooming plant with a creeping rootstock (rhizome) that sends up long-stalked, nearly circular, dark green leathery leaves, which float on the surface. Unlike the blue lotus which is a smaller, less showy day-blooming plant, the white lotus stands up to 25 cm (10 in) across and remains open until midday.

In WWI, powerful alcohol extract of white lotus, also known as, Nymphaea alba was successfully used as an anesthetic when the traditional opiate anesthetic wasn't available. It is closely related to Nymphaea Caerulea (Blue Lotus), which was worshipped as a visionary plant and was a symbol for the origins of life. White Lotus has extremely similar alkaloid content as Blue Lotus, but because it is in less demand and less colorful, we can offer it as a less expensive, but extremely popular alternative.

Yellow Lotus

Yellow lotus produces huge, round leaves, usually raised above the water, although in floating leaves are produced in deeper water. The central part of the flower, called the receptacle, forms an inverted cone, in which the pistils are individually imbedded in cavities. At maturity it becomes detached and floats cavity-side down, and the seed-like fruits eventually fall out and sink. They have very hard walls and often do not germinate for years or even decades. When they do germinate, they may rise to the surface, where the floating seedlings are dispersed by wind and current.

The lotus also has an extensive system of underground stems, which produce large tubers. Although this species scarcely spreads at all in the northernmost part of its range, in warmer regions it rapidly forms large colonies.

The common names for Yellow Lotus are American lotus, duck acorn, water nut. Traditionally Yellow Lotus is a narcotic used for trances and visions. Although this plant is protected in the northern parts of the country, in the south it is considered a weed. This is a rare plant known for its unique incense scent.