Sananga

Sananga: What is it?

The Sananga plant

Sananga or Cyperus articulatus, is a tropical plant that grows along the Amazonian rivers and belongs to the Cyperaceae family.

Sananga is a native Amazonian plant, but it grows in many other tropical areas, including Africa and Asia. There are about 30 different types of Sananga, belonging to three species: Eleutherine bulbous, Cyperus articulatus, and Cyperus prolixus Kunth.

Sananga is used by Amazonian indigenous tribes to improve vision and thus their hunting skills used as eye drops, as well as being used for various medicinal purposes such as treating epilepsy or treating snake bites and fevers.

Sananga eye drops, benefits:

Sananga medicinal properties:

Effects of Sananga at the energetic level:

– Sananga helps to open the inner vision, the third eye, the visions.

-Activates the pineal gland.

-Clear mental confusion.

-Helps align and open the chakras, particularly the third eye and crown chakra.

– Sananga helps to cleanse deeply on an energetic, physical, emotional and spiritual level.

-Helps release past traumas, releasing stagnant negative energies, closing holes in our energy fields caused by negative lifestyles.

-Eliminates negative energy charges and accumulations.

-Powers lucid dreams.

Sananga is also helpful in some psychosomatic illnesses, since the eyes are the windows from which we perceive this world. Therefore, this natural medicine helps balance and heal imbalances in the perception of what happens around us, providing harmony and the consequent spiritual, emotional and physical healing.

Effects of Sananga at the Physical level:

 The Shipibo tribe also use Sananga drops to improve their ability to focus on crafts such as sewing, painting, and embroidering textiles, for which they are famous. From an early age, Shipibo women are initiated into this practice by their mothers and grandmothers. A Shipiba says: “When I was a little girl, my mother put drops of Sananga in my eyes so that I would have the vision for the designs of my paintings.”

Sananga drops are also used before and during Ayahuasca ceremonies, since after its use as eye drops, the visions become clearer and more detailed. Some tribes even use Sananga as an additive to their Ayahuasca drink.

Other traditional uses of the Sananga plant:

To counteract malaria, it is applied by nasal infusion; When used for wounds, it is cut and applied externally; For digestive problems or nausea, it is applied as a tincture; For coughs and fevers, and for use as an antivenom, it is applied orally by decoction. The flowers and leaves are used to make a tea that has strong aphrodisiac effects and also increases lucid dreaming. Finally, when the dried rhizomes are mixed with tobacco and smoked, hallucinogenic effects are described.

Sananga also helps alleviate dental problems, counteract wounds, and heal various eye injuries.

Relieves nausea and vomiting, alleviates intestinal/digestive problems and soothes/calms. Sananga was widely used in the Shipibo tribe as a contraceptive, as an abortifacient and to avoid pain during childbirth, probably due to its ergot alkaloid content.