Yauhtli (Mexican Tarragon) — the Aztec dream herb, that which is offered

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She rekindles the Tonalli and brings the colours back to the inner landscape — vivid, meaningful dreams.

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Makes for an excellent delicious tea to promote winding-down or to pleasantly drift into sleep. Nurtures a relaxed yet more present state with a nearly mystical quality to it, especially when consumed in combination with German Chamomile and/or Kanna, perhaps also Mugwort.

Lockhart

Dream · 26 March 2023

A great whole body relaxing tea, add peppermint or passionflower/lemon balm and camomile for a knockout sleepy tea :)

Deko

Dream · 25 October 2024

Mexican tarragon is one of the best experiences I've ever enjoyed. it is Spicy. it has taste. the flavor lasts over time. the dizziness of well-being provides pleasure & satisfaction. really very good. thank you for these Treasures.

Cedric

Dream · 11 April 2022

It's very relaxing and makes me feel euphoric. The flavor is unique, a lemon and aniseed can. I made my grandmother taste, she even almost fell asleep and smelled good By taking this herb I see colors with my eyes closed and I dream very intensely at night. Wonderful and the quality has greatly improved. Perfect for directly calming an anxiety attack or insomnia. Thank you

Nébuleuse

Dream · 15 December 2021

As usual The same comment as last time for the same product. Very good relaxation and a can euphoric! Supe taste well pronounced and unique a lemony can / very slightly aniseed Helps to sleep. Nothing to change or report

Nébuleuse

Dream · 24 December 2021

Un goût plein de plaisir et de lumière aussi bien en infu (80°) que dans les mélanges à rêver 🙏🏽 Super qualité, envoi très soigné et plein d'attention

Frédérique Dassonville

Dream · verified purchase · 5 March 2026

A very pleasant and aniseed smell. A feeling of soothing on the digestive level. A very popular infusion.

Túyyo

Dream · 12 May 2024

The seller is full of good advice and was able to guide me according to my needs. She is a very passionate and caring person. Immediately delivered, immediately tested. This plant in infusion has a very pleasant taste. The products seem to be of quality. Thank you for the lovely gift 🙂 I would not hesitate to recommend it in order to test all these other fabulous and varied plants.

Elodie

Dream · 18 December 2023

Awesome stuff! I had wild dreams

Bruthur

Dream · 1 August 2022

Mexican tarragon mixed with the Indian Mix is my best experience on Dreams Herbs Temple. It never disappoints me. I try to pay tribute to the fellow travelers through whom I was able to discover the plants and whom I no longer see. And I try to salute the Plant And The Sacred Of The Plant Itself To make this experience a worthy, wise and honest experience. Thank you for these Treasures So Rare.

Cedric

Dream · 10 May 2022

I believe according to one of the emails of this great friend from Belgium that she really loved mexican tarragon. It doesn't surprise me. Delicious plant with taste, relaxing, euphoric, dreamlike and effective She's super happy anyway. Reliable company and ultra fast delivery even for a shipment outside France (after I do not know at all if it is even further) Thank you again! Much more than satisfied! What fun;

Nébuleuse

Dream · 24 December 2021

Really helped me recover my dreaming!

Deko

Dream · 24 December 2024

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What is Yauhtli (Mexican Tarragon)?

Yauhtli is Mexican tarragon — Tagetes lucida, an aromatic herb of the Mexican highlands that the Aztecs named "cloud plant". With a taste of anise and liquorice, she is drunk as an infusion, smoked, added to ceremonial cacao. She is a social herb, of dreams and celebration — her very name, in Nahuatl, means "she who is offered".

Is Yauhtli a good cannabis substitute to smoke?

She is one of the best smoking substitutes for cannabis and CBD. Her smoke is soft, sweet, aromatic, and pairs with almost any smokable herb. Many use her to move away from tobacco or cannabis while keeping a pleasant gesture.

Does Yauhtli give dreams?

It is her reputation. At night, Mexican tarragon is traditionally associated with vivid and meaningful dreams — Aztec tradition linked her to Ayauh, the sacred mist of the threshold. An infusion or smoke in the evening, before bedtime, is the most common oneiric use.

How do I prepare a Yauhtli infusion?

Put about 1 teaspoon (1 g) of leaves in a cup of simmering water (~80°C, not boiling). Let infuse 5 to 10 minutes, strain. The taste is anised, liquorice, slightly sweet. You can reinfuse the leaves up to 3 times.

Can Yauhtli be smoked?

Yes. Finely crumble a small quantity of leaves and add her to your smoking blend. Yauhtli synergises with almost any smokable herb and softens the whole with her sweet and aromatic notes.

Why was Yauhtli in the Aztecs' cacao?

Yauhtli was a documented ingredient of Xocoatl, the sacred Aztec cacao brew (with vanilla, chilli, achiote). She amplifies and beautifies the cacao — she is a synergiser that brings a contemplative precision to the cardiac warmth of cacao.

Does Yauhtli need to be fresh to be effective?

Yes, this is the critical point. Yauhtli's active compounds (essential oil, coumarins) degrade quickly upon drying. Material more than one year old loses almost all her effect. This is why lot rotation and freshness matter as much as origin — INFUSE works in tight flow with a supplier from Puebla.

Where does INFUSE's Yauhtli come from?

From the region of Puebla, in Mexico, 100% wild harvest. Whole leaves, analysed in laboratory in France. The supply details (lot, harvester) are in process of confirmation.

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Essence

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⊹ CHAPTER II · ESSENCE ⊹

The Aztecs believed in Yauhtli to replenish the Tonalli — the Spiritual Force of the Self that can sometimes be diminished or lost.

Yauhtli breathes Life into our souls: like a lightning bolt of vital energy, she imbues colours, scents, and flavours into the arid landscapes within.

Mexican Tarragon fills us with passion, dreams, and desires. She brings joy and lifts our mind and emotions.

For meditation and introspective journeys, she offers clarity, depth, and visions.

At night, she unveils her magic through vivid, meaningful dreams.

A true delight to smoke or to drink — one of the best smoking substitutes for cannabis and CBD.

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Spiritual healer — Yauhtli lifts the inner world, the sentient and emotional reality. She nourishes and flourishes the inner garden, allows us to cultivate dreams where there were none left. She moves us away from torpor, numbness, the weight of addictive behaviours.

Her vibrant, potent essence makes her an excellent adversary of inner demons. With her bubbling life force, she refuses to let you stagnate among your shadows. She shakes and infuses the colours of life into your soul.

A precious ally for trauma work: the Aztecs believed in Yauhtli to accompany *Susto* — deep fears, the "shock" that disembodies the soul. The herb accompanies the *limpia* (purification) and the return of the soul (retrieving the soul) — rendering the person spiritually whole before the mental or physical symptoms can be treated.

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Registerthe one who offers herself, sacred mist, cloud-herb, Flowered Dream

Aztec nahuatl · Xochipilli Prince of Flowers · Tlaloc master of the waters · Codex Cruz-Badiano 1552

Tradition

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⊹ CHAPTER III · TRADITION ⊹

The Aztecs called her yauhtli, "plant of the clouds". In 1552, an Aztec physician named Martín de la Cruz set down, in Nahuatl, the oldest surviving medical treatise of the Americas — the Cruz-Badiano Codex — and Yauhtli figures there among the cardinal plants. At the same period, the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún includes the plant in his Florentine Codex as a medicine and a ritual herb. Five centuries later, the archaeologists analysing the incense burners of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan confirm her presence chemically: the same plant, the same medicine, crossing time.

Yauhtli was linked to Tlaloc, supreme deity of Rain and Lightning, Master of the Waters. The herb was said to be equipped to cross destructive emotional storms — she helps you "pass through the Waters of the soul", and gives the strength to navigate, drawn on by visions of the shore on the other side.

She was also a precious ally of work on trauma: the Aztecs believed Yauhtli able to soothe Susto, the deep fears. The herb accompanied the limpia — the cleansing — and the "return of the soul", making the being whole again, spiritually, before the symptoms of the body or the mind were addressed.

The lineage is not only a memory. Still today, the Wixárika (Huichol) — the jicareros, keepers of the sacred blood of peyote — carry Yauhtli on their annual pilgrimage to Wirikuta. They smoke her, alone or mixed with mapacho, sometimes in the presence of peyote, for more vivid visions. And across Mexico, many still burn the dried herb as incense, on household altars as much as in ceremonies. At Día de los Muertos, on 1 November, it is her cousin — Tagetes erecta, the orange marigold — that carpets the altars to guide the souls: the Tagetes lineage in Mexico is whole, living, cyclical.

Preparation

⊹ CHAPTER IV · PREPARATION ⊹

Yauhtli has a marvellous flavour, recalling anise — sweet, close to liquorice. At once refreshing and aromatic, she invites herself into almost every preparation. INFUSE offers her as whole leaves: 10 g, 20 g or 50 g.

As an infusion — for a simple and delicious moment, at any hour of the day. A teaspoon (≈ 1 g) of leaves in a cup of simmering water (~80 °C, not boiling). Infuse 5 to 10 minutes, strain. The same leaves can be re-infused up to 3 times, savouring each pass.

As smoke — as a truly delicious complement. Crumble a small quantity of Yauhtli finely, add it to your smoking blend. She synergises with almost every smokable herb, and lifts the whole with her sweet, aromatic notes. She is one of the best smoking substitutes for cannabis and CBD.

In ceremonial cacao — her secret role. Yauhtli was a documented component of Xocoatl, the sacred cacao drink of the Aztecs. Added to cacao, she reveals deeper levels of its magic: the theobromine of the cacao opens the heart, Yauhtli brings contemplative precision inside that opening.

Yauhtli is an amplifier. As a tea, as smoke, in any preparation, she lifts the effects and makes the experience deeper.

Suggested ritual

The circle of the Flowered Dream

For those who want to find colour again — or to dream where the dream had dried up.

Prepare the infusion or the blend in silence — feel the anise rise, and name what you have come to cultivate (a joy, a desire, a dream you thought was out)
Offer first — the teaching is in the name. Before drinking or lighting, offer the smoke to the sky, offer your presence to the dream. A word of gratitude to Xochipilli, to the Mexican earth, to the cloud-herb
Drink or smoke in presence, without a screen — let the sweet taste come back, feel the life force that "refuses to leave you among your shadows"
In the evening, just before bed for dream use — an infusion or a gentle smoke, then the dream notebook open beside the bed
In the morning, write down the dreams before the phone, before the coffee — watch what has flowered again

To be shared, above all. She is a social herb: a medicine circle with Yauhtli is a blessed communion with others and with nature.

We answer.

What is Yauhtli (Mexican Tarragon)?

Is Yauhtli a good cannabis substitute to smoke?

Does Yauhtli give dreams?

How do I prepare a Yauhtli infusion?

Can Yauhtli be smoked?

Yes. Finely crumble a small quantity of leaves and add her to your smoking blend. Yauhtli synergises with almost any smokable herb and softens the whole with her sweet and aromatic notes.

Why was Yauhtli in the Aztecs' cacao?

Does Yauhtli need to be fresh to be effective?

Where does INFUSE's Yauhtli come from?

From the region of Puebla, in Mexico, 100% wild harvest. Whole leaves, analysed in laboratory in France. The supply details (lot, harvester) are in process of confirmation.