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✦ Love Elixir · in one breath ✦
Four loves in one pipette — the circle, the royalty, the play, the threshold.
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What is INFUSE's Love Elixir?
It is a composite elixir that brings together four heart plants: Guayusa (Ecuador), Rose (Morocco/Himalaya), Damiana (Mexico), and Blue Lotus (Egypt). Each one loves in its own way — the circle-love of the guayusa, the royalty-love of the rose, the play-love of the damiana, the threshold-love of the lotus. The assembly of the four is an INFUSE proposition, not an ancient traditional recipe: each plant carries its own real lineage, the elixir is our gesture.
How do you use the Love Elixir?
Two uses. Day to day, in a small amount (a few drops), to keep the heart awake — preferably in the morning or daytime because of the caffeinated guayusa. As an opening dose, on an evening of presence, one to two pipettes to rekindle the fire of the heart and open intimacy, with one other or in a circle. Damiana's traditional rule holds for the whole elixir: you do not take it alone into the void, it is a plant of relationship.
Is the Love Elixir an aphrodisiac?
The term calls for caution: INFUSE makes no promise of effect. What the lineages say is documented — Damiana belonged to the Mexican love brews, and a 17th-century Spanish missionary reported that people made a sweet drink from it to increase amorous potency. What the elixir actually does is described by the gesture, not the promise: the inhibition that loosens, the warmth that returns to the body, the conversation that opens, the presence that settles upon the other.
Can you take it in the evening? Does it contain caffeine?
Yes, the guayusa is a caffeinated plant (the leaves typically contain 1.7 to 1.8%). It is a real question for an elixir also conceived for the evening and for ceremony: depending on the amount of guayusa in the final formula, the full dose may be better kept to the daytime. People sensitive to caffeine should approach it with the same caution as a coffee.
What precautions come with the Love Elixir?
Damiana is mildly uterotonic: avoid during pregnancy and the conception window; it inhibits MAO-B (caution with MAOI/SSRI antidepressants) and has a mild hypoglycaemic action (monitoring if blood sugar is fragile). Blue Lotus has theoretical interactions with SSRIs. Guayusa contains caffeine (caution if anxious, hypertensive, or with heart conditions; avoid the full dose in the evening). Avoid in children. If you are on treatment or in doubt, a doctor's advice comes before the plant.
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