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4.9/571 reviews, including 68 left on our Etsy shop
Merci infiniment pour la qualité de la Plante sacrée. Au travers la diète, j'ai pu faire connaissance avec son esprit, les guérisons du coeur et des blessures anciennes ont été très profondes et intenses et cela dès le 2 ème jour de prise, je suis très reconnaissant que I infuse earth propose cette Plante incroyable et puissante. Merci encore de tout mon coeur! a vous et à Bobinsana Thank you so much for the quality of the Sacred Plant. Through the diet, I was able to become acquainted with its spirit, the healing of the heart and old wounds was very deep and intense and this from the 2nd day of intake, I am very grateful that I infuse earth offers this incredible and powerful Plant. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart! to you and to Bobinsana.
audrey lehy
Amazing herb. When I take it I feel extremely relaxed with more awake consciousness and that night after taking it I dreamed very intensely that I plunged into a Rainbow in the cosmos then became this Rainbow and married the Eternity. I was dancing in the cosmos all this after having died, having experienced my own childbirth, having seen myself being born in a room invaded by a white and blurry Light. My whole soul trembled in the dream and I rediscovered true ecstasy. All this after a trip to a somewhat magical island. I woke up and I heard the birds louder than usual. The other night after taking this herb I dreamed very intensely of ants climbing on me in the Amazon.Dreams are extremely powerful and we remember them. Great plant!
Nébuleuse
It was exciting and an honor to be chosen by this Master Plant 🙏🏼🌺.. a scent that brought me back to the banks of the river in South America.. I used it as a herbal tea and immediately felt peace in my Heart.. as if the pain was melting away.. compassion took over.. the scent is really intoxicating... so much so that I wanted to put it on charcoal as incense ♥️ Thank you .. also for the gift received from the seller .. very kind 🙏🏼♥️☀️ I recommend it!!!!!!!!
Angela Chionna
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✦ Bobinsana · in one breath ✦
She opens the Space of the Heart, and restores its Strength and its Suppleness.
Signature INFUSEIntensity · scored out of 10
| reorganisation of the heart | 10/10 | |
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| long dieta 1-3 months | 10/10 | |
| ayahuasca-bridge plant | 9/10 | |
| grammar of the várzea | 9/10 | |
| watery mistress | 9/10 |
Register Mermaid of the River, Daughter of the Tree of Light, the water that undoes the stone, lulling icaro · Shipibo-Conibo · Amazonian várzea · curanderas women-healers
⊹ The path of the plant
⊹ FREQUENT QUESTIONS ⊹
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What is bobinsana?
Bobinsana (Calliandra angustifolia) is a small tree of the Amazonian riverbanks with pink-and-white powder-puff flowers, one of the master plants of the healers of the Peruvian Amazon (Luna 1984). For the House, she is the Daughter of the Tree of Light and the Mermaid of the River, the plant of the heart, received as a gentle cure or in a dieta. INFUSE offers her leaves, a bark and leaf powder mix, and the elixir, wild-harvested in Peru.
Is bobinsana the same as mimosa?
No. Bobinsana is Calliandra angustifolia. Like the mimosas, it belongs to the large legume family, the Fabaceae, and its pink and white powder-puff flowers look like theirs; they are different genera.
What are the traditional uses of bobinsana?
In the Peruvian Amazon, she is a master plant: she is received in a dieta, and she "teaches medicine" to the one who keeps the diet (Luna 1984). She is also added to ayahuasca (Beyer 2009; Rätsch 2005). In the living tradition, as it is passed on in Peru today, she is the plant of the heart, the one that accompanies after heartbreak or separation.
How do I prepare bobinsana?
Three ways depending on the form. Whole leaves — 1 to 2 teaspoons in infusion 5-10 min in simmering water. Bark + leaves powder mix — 1 to 2 teaspoons in a cup of warm plant milk or simmering water (gentle decoction 10 minutes for more potency). Elixir — 5 to 15 drops under the tongue or in a warm drink. One to three times a day depending on intention.
What is the bobinsana dieta?
A dieta is the way a master plant is received: a period of withdrawal, a plain diet without salt, sugar, fat, alcohol or sex, and the plant taken every day. Traditional dietas can last for weeks or months, under the guidance of a healer. At INFUSE we share it over 7 to 21 days, with a journal open.
Bobinsana and ayahuasca?
Bobinsana is one of the plants most often taken before or after an ayahuasca ceremony — she deepens the cardiac dimension during the opening, reduces emotional defensiveness, and helps the integration of difficult contents in the following days. Rätsch and Beyer also document her among the admixtures that some mestizo shamans add to the brew. Many discover her through this bridge, then return to her for her own value.
All questions
Bobinsana or Ajo Sacha, in which order?
In our practice, Ajo Sacha often comes first to clear the ground, then Bobinsana, after a pause, for the heart. It is the House's way of doing it; each plant can also be received on its own.
Which form of bobinsana should I choose?
For the gentle daily cure and the evening companionship, the whole leaves in infusion. For the concentrated decoction, the framed dieta, and serious ritual work, the bark + leaves powder mix (more potent). For a precise ceremonial use or quick uptake, the elixir by the drop. The three carry the same plant.
Does bobinsana have precautions?
Yes. To avoid during pregnancy, desire of pregnancy (traditionally reputed contraceptive) and breastfeeding. Medical advice recommended under treatment, particularly cardiac (possible interactions). To avoid in case of Fabaceae allergy (pea family). The long dieta requires a frame — never in autonomy without experienced accompaniment.
Is bobinsana psychoactive? Is it legal?
She gives no visions: she works gently, layer after layer, on the heart and the dream. Her pharmacology is still to be mapped. She is freely sold in France. Check the law in your country.
Where can I buy good-quality bobinsana?
INFUSE offers bobinsana wild-harvested with respect in Peru, in three forms — whole leaves, a bark and leaf powder mix, and an elixir — shipped to France, the EU and worldwide. Our supplier commits to always replanting more than he takes, and works with a registered cooperative in Peru.
What are the benefits of bobinsana?
Tradition makes her a master plant, received in a dieta (Luna 1984). The House holds her as the plant of the heart and of courage, who brings lucidity and vibrancy to the Dream Space. Our dreamers tell of more intense dreams, and sometimes of nothing at all. No clinical study has looked at her.
What are the effects of bobinsana?
A gentle plant, without visions. What our dreamers report: relaxation, dreams more intense or found again, sometimes no effect. She reveals herself over several days, in a cure of 7 to 21 days.
Does bobinsana have side effects?
No adverse effect is reported in our reviews. As a precaution: not during pregnancy or if you are planning one (she is traditionally used as a contraceptive), not while breastfeeding, not if you are allergic to the pea family, and ask your doctor first if you take any medication, especially for the heart.
How do you make bobinsana tea?
1 to 2 teaspoons per cup. As a tea, in water at about 90 °C for 6 to 8 minutes; the plant can be steeped at least twice. As a decoction, the strongest way, simmer gently for about 10 minutes and strain. In the evening for the dream, over a cure of 7 to 21 days.
What do people who tried bobinsana say?
Of 58 reviews published on INFUSE, 5 tell of a night: 3 more intense dreams, 2 dreams carrying messages, 1 dreams found again, and 1 nothing at all. Jasmine: 'on the first night I had dreams for the first time in a long time'. Anastasiia: 'Nothing at all'.
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- Anonymous voiceAug 24
Is it compatible with a treatment I’m taking?ajo sacha
- flordelparaisoestelarINFUSE teamAug 29
Are you referring to Ajo Sacha or Bobinsana? We would need to know which treatment you're taking to give you an accurate answer:) You can write to us directly at : contact@infuse.earth It will be easier to respond you since each treatment is different 🙏
In depthbotany · phytochemistry · historyRead
For those who want to go below the page: botany, then four voices, each one named. ◆ what the tradition left in writing, ◇ what research has measured, ● what our dreamers tell us, ☾ what the House says.
What is bobinsana?
Bobinsana is Calliandra angustifolia Spruce ex Benth., a small tree of the Fabaceae (Mimosoideae) that grows along the rivers and in the floodplain forests (várzea) of the western Amazon: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil. Her flowers are pink-and-white powder puffs, a burst of fine stamens that seems made of spray. She loves water: she roots on the banks where the river rises and falls back each year. These riverside ecosystems are under pressure from deforestation, which makes the way she is harvested a real question.
◆ The documented tradition
In the Peruvian Amazon, bobinsana belongs to the *plantas maestras*, the plant teachers. The anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna worked with four mestizo healers (vegetalistas) in Iquitos, and bobinsana appears among the plant teachers they named — plants that "teach medicine" to the one who keeps their dieta, and that are also added to ayahuasca (Luna 1984, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, citing Soukup 1970). Luna adds that some plant teachers teach only through dreams, without saying which ones.
Stephan Beyer (Singing to the Plants, pp. 291-292) and Christian Rätsch (The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, pp. 708-709) both list bobinsana among the plants that accompany ayahuasca. Many people discover her this way, taken in the days before or after a ceremony, and come back to her for her own sake.
◇ Bobinsana effects: what the studies say
Its pharmacology has not been mapped, and no study has looked at its effect on dreams.
● Bobinsana reviews: what our dreamers say
Of 58 reviews published on INFUSE, 5 tell of a night (re-read one by one for our dreamers' accounts; a review can say several things): 4 report an effect on their dreams, including 3 more intense dreams, 2 dreams found again or better remembered, 2 dreams carrying messages. And one customer felt nothing. That is too few to draw a trend: we share them for what they are.
"on the first night I had dreams for the first time in a long time." — Jasmine
"For me personally the tea had no effect. I tried drinking it during the day and before going to sleep. Nothing at all." — Anastasiia
☾ The House
The companion of the tired heart. A plant of Courage: it helps you live in the truth of your heart, integrate the wounds of the past, walk your truth, find the courage to embody who you really are.
The dieta
A dieta is the way a plant teacher is received: a period of withdrawal, a plain diet without salt, sugar, fat, alcohol or sex, and the plant taken every day, so that it can teach. Traditional dietas can last for weeks or months. The way we share it at INFUSE is gentler: *"Best to use on a 7 to 21-day diet to fully infuse in the magical vibration of Bobinsana."* The invitation that goes with it: to call upon the spirit of the plant while preparing and drinking it, to keep a journal, and to "pay attention to the shifts in your dreams and life aspirations as you progress on this journey."
The words of the house
This is how we have always spoken of her:
"Dream Teacher, Heart-Opener and Empathic Master. Bobinsana is a true Heart Warrior: She gives us the strength to align our actions with the highest truth of our Heart, at all time. In South America, she is considered the Legendary Daughter of the Tree of Light & Mermaid of the Amazonian River. Bobinsana is renowned for its ability to open the Heart Space and deeply engage in the Dream Space, where she brings lucidity and vibrancy."
The Daughter of the Tree of Light and the Mermaid of the River belong to the living lore of the plant, as she is sung about today in Peru and in the healing centres of the Amazon; the written ethnography does not record these images. What the dreamers tell us is simpler, and it counts: "on the first night I had dreams for the first time in a long time" (Jasmine, 2024).
Sourcing
Our bobinsana is wild-harvested with respect in Peru. Our supplier commits to always replanting more than he takes, and works with a registered cooperative in Peru. The plant is harvested on request, so it reaches you as fresh as possible.
Side effects, safety and gesture
When not to use: avoid during pregnancy, if you are planning a pregnancy (she is traditionally used as a contraceptive), and while breastfeeding. If you take any medication, especially for the heart, ask your doctor first, as interactions are possible. Do not use if you are allergic to plants of the pea family (Fabaceae).
The house gesture: 1 to 2 teaspoons per serving. As a decoction (the strongest), simmer gently for about 10 minutes and strain. As a tea (softer), steep in water at about 90 °C for 6 to 8 minutes, and re-use the plant at least twice. As a tincture, a few drops in a glass of water or juice. The taste is mild and earthy, with a slightly bitter undertone. Then a pause after each cycle of intention.
If in doubt, see a practitioner before the plant.
The monograph on bobinsana tells the heart plant in full, and our guide to the best herbs for lucid dreaming places her among the other dream allies.
Sources: Luna L.E. 1984, "The concept of plants as teachers among four mestizo shamans of Iquitos", Journal of Ethnopharmacology 11:135-156 · Beyer S., Singing to the Plants (pp. 291-292) · Rätsch C., The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants (pp. 708-709) · INFUSE's own texts and customer reviews.
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