Plant medicine has been a vital part of my healing journey lately. A few months ago, I purchased Sananga Eye Drops from Queen of the Forest, which is a fair-trade supplier of indigenous plant medicines including rapé (pronounced ha-pey), a tobacco/bark ash mixture which is nasally ingested for physical and spiritual benefits. From the Queen of the Forest website:
“Sananga is a very powerful sacred eye medicine, which is made from a shrub called “Apocynaceae” from the Amazon jungle.
The beautiful spirit of Sananga assists us to deeply cleanse on the energetic, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Also, it assists us to unblock, re-align, open-up all the chakras, and release any stuck energy and sickness.
The bark of this special shrub’s root is used to make these sacred eye drops, which is traditionally used by the indigenous peoples to lift “panema” – it can be thought of as bad luck, depression, laziness, sadness, or negative energetic influences, which attract difficulties and disease. Several tribes in the Amazon use Sananga to improve their hunting skills giving them kind of a night vision.
On the energetic level, Sananga profoundly helps to open-up the inner sight, third eye, visions, activates the pineal gland, clears any mental confusion, releases negative thoughts, and deeply cleanses the whole aura from the inside out.”
After keeping the stuff stored in my fridge for a few months, I finally felt called to use this medicine as a tool to open up some blockages in my brow chakra (“third eye”) and to hopefully lift some optical anomalies I have been experiencing for a few years now. In pure Ethereal Ecology fashion, I made a video of the experience with before-and-after commentary for your benefit. You’re welcome.
In short: The drops were painful as hell, but the experience was enlightening and well worth it. I would recommend this medicine to anyone on the spiritual path looking to release stuck energy in their third eye center or simply interested in plant medicine, and to people with troubling eye problems.
Word of advice: If you choose to try Sananga, remember to respect the medicine. Medicinal plants are a conscious beings with intelligence. Treat them as any less than sacred and they will gladly kick your ass.
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