White Lotus (Nymphaea lotus) — the flower that opens at night

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The lunar sister who opens when the world thinks the night will swallow it — the fine perception.

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White lotus is known in mayan land as the herb of oracles, I use it before going to bed and with intentsion I ask question that I am looking answer for. White Lotus is helping dream state to become more deeper so the symbols and stories will be more easily remembered. Thank you, very good quality!

Kairi Emanuel

Ritual · verified purchase · 20 March 2025

Resin is a beautiful experience. I found the effect a bit long to come but I slept very well and had a deep and restful sleep. It was nice and sweet. Thank you for discovering this new treasure.

Cedric

Ritual · 8 December 2022

The white Lotus is very nice and very soothing. The Products are well packaged and Shipping by Mail is very efficient. I am extremely satisfied. I ordered the White Lotus, the Red Lotus, and the Indian Mix. Thank you very much for this magnificent discovery. I add to this opinion that I was entitled to A Small Bag Of Calea As a Gift. It's a Plant I Didn't Know. The bitter taste is nice. The After-the-Fact effect as well. Lotuses are softer. Several very different experiences for a package, therefore. Very Authentic Experiences, Very Close To Nature. I consumed La Calea with a juice. I think that With a Tea it must be more Authentic, Too.

Cedric

Ritual · 17 December 2021

Order received today. Haven't tried anything yet, but they look like very pure quality herbs. I haven't seen such beautiful deep purple blue lotus flowers in a while. I placed a large order and received a very welcome extra from the seller (I'm very curious) the shipping and delivery were super fast! A very satisfied and probably regular customer here!!😁💯🧡🤠🙏

Sander

Ritual · 31 October 2023

Quality lotus, white lotus has more magic in it, amazing. Thankyou

Morganne C

Ritual · 28 October 2023

This product is very special, for meditators it is great

Pepito

Ritual · 13 August 2023

I am so pleased with the herbs from these/ this person and her shop. Beautifully handled and very effective for whatever need you might have. The natural calm and stability I always know I'll get to have & experience myself when ordered some of my favorites here. Love 🌻

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Ritual · 13 August 2021

Beautiful tea, makes me feel very relaxed. Would recommend!

Sara

Ritual · 8 September 2024

I love it, beautiful flowers and a real pleasure in infusion

gaelle

Ritual · 8 April 2024

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What is white lotus (Nymphaea lotus)?

White lotus is a sacred flower of ancient Egypt, botanically a water lily named Nymphaea lotus (Nymphaeaceae family), the nocturnal sister of the blue lotus. Her particularity is rare — she opens at night and closes in the morning, exactly the inverse of the blue lotus. The Egyptians made her the flower of Isis, of passages and dreams. INFUSE offers her whole flowers and a paste extract.

What are the felt effects of white lotus?

Traditional uses describe white lotus as both calming and subtly euphoric — a relaxation of the body, a refined presence, a softness that inclines toward inner silence. She is situated in the evening, for meditation, ritual bath or entry into sleep. She is not a health product; she is a flower of slow moments.

What is the difference between white lotus and blue lotus?

These are two close water lilies, Nymphaea lotus (white) and Nymphaea caerulea (blue), of the same Nymphaeaceae family. Their cycles oppose — the blue opens in daytime, the white opens at night. Coherent use reports over decades describe the white as more sedative and oriented toward sleep and dream, the blue as more euphoric and social. This is exactly the ritual distribution of ancient Egypt.

Is white lotus a true lotus?

Botanically no — she is a water lily, Nymphaea lotus (Nymphaeaceae family), not a true lotus like the Asian Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbonaceae family). But in ritual use, from Egypt to Sri Lanka, she has been called "white lotus" for millennia, and she bears this name with dignity. Her modern commercial name in aquatic gardening is tiger lotus.

How do I prepare a white lotus infusion?

Place a whole flower in a large cup, pour simmering but never boiling water, and let infuse 7 to 10 minutes. The same flower reinfuses two to three times. At one moment she stops floating, sinks to the bottom and reopens, submerged — a spectacle. In the evening, in silence. A little honey or lemon enhances.

Does white lotus help to sleep and dream?

Traditional use situates her in the evening, as companion of relaxation and the sleep threshold, and several traditions place her near the bed for dream quality. INFUSE formulates no medical promise — the flower accompanies an evening ritual and heals nothing. Many take her during life passages: grief, age change, crossing.

What precautions with white lotus?

Start with a small quantity to observe your body's reaction. To avoid in case of pregnancy or breastfeeding without professional advice. Caution with sedative or antidepressant (SSRI) medications, or those acting on dopamine. Do not drive after a full dose. Vaping and hyper-concentrated extracts are not the traditional way — INFUSE works with the whole flower. DYOR, as always.

Where do INFUSE's white lotus flowers come from?

Our white lotus flowers are wild-harvested in the lakes of Sri Lanka, in collaboration with a small family business. Quality control is carried out in France. The supply details (harvester, lot) are in process of confirmation.

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Originating mainly from India and China (and more broadly from the tropical-subtropical zone), the Lotus flower is considered a highly sacred flower in the Eastern religions and traditions. The Sacred Lotus is known as the Flower of the Buddha. According to Hindu mythology, Brahma, god of creation and knowledge, was born from a Lotus flower that grew from the navel of Vishnu while he slept on the water.

White Lotus has both calming and euphoric effects — inviting deep bodily relaxation and psychic insights. An excellent plant to enrich meditative practices. Recognised as a reliable ally of sleep.

Stimulating feelings of inspiration and refined presence, the sacred flower has a purifying quality with a potential to awaken the soul.

In ancient yoga practice, the circulation and regulation of the energy currents in the body are compared to the blooming of a Lotus flower at the crown of the head. The Lotus flowers will accompany you wherever you are on your spiritual path.

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Isis-nocturnal		10/10
fine perception		9/10
lunar passage		10/10
inverted re-flowering		10/10
Shveta Kamala		9/10

RegisterSeshen (flower of passage), Book of the Dead, Tutankhamun, lunar sister (funerary Egypt, meditative ayurvedic, the Maya world of Bonampak, Sri Lanka)

Tradition

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⊹ CHAPTER III · TRADITION ⊹

The name as signature. Nymphaea comes from the Greek numphē — the nymph, the young woman of the waters, the divinity who inhabits spring and pond. The word carries an aquatic femininity before any botany. In hieroglyphs, she is called Sesh or Seshen — a word that designates at once the flower and the power she carries: the passage between the worlds.

Egypt — flower of passages. The myth of Heliopolis tells that at the dawn of the world, a lily flower floated on the primordial waters of Nun. She opened, and from her heart sprang the sun-child Ra. The whole Egyptian cosmology was born of watching a lily flower open. The white lotus — who opens at night — became the flower of passages: Isis, the journey of the dead, the Book of the Dead (where she is mentioned in several chapters). While the blue accompanied the sun and the daytime festivals, the white accompanied the night, the dead and dreams.

The Festival of Drunkenness of Hathor. Every year, in the temple of Hathor at Dendera, the whole community drank a wine scented with lilies and danced into visionary states. Archaeology has confirmed that this festival existed without interruption for more than two millennia.

The same gesture at the other end of the world. At Palenque, the bas-relief of the tomb of King Pacal (died 683) and the frescoes of Bonampak show Mayan lords wearing large Nymphaea flowers emerging from their heads — a ritual signalling of an altered state. Three thousand kilometres between Egypt and the Yucatán, the same flower, the same role, with no attested contact.

Vedic India. In Sanskrit, the white lily is *Shveta Kamala*. The classical treatises place her among the hridaya (cardiotonics) and manas (nervines of the mind), specifying: she is the calmest, the most soothing, the most meditative of the three lotuses — white, red, blue.

Preparation

⊹ CHAPTER IV · PREPARATION ⊹

Marker: one whole white lotus flower per cup.

As an infusion: place a fine flower in a large cup, pour simmering but never boiling water over her, let her infuse 7 to 10 minutes. Reuse the same flower two or three times. At some point, the flower stops floating, sinks to the bottom and re-forms completely submerged — simply magnificent. Face up, for her beauty. A little honey or lemon lifts her. In the evening, preferably.
As a bath: add one to three flowers to a hot bath, candlelight — a complete sensory experience, particularly at the full moon.
To smoke: petals and stamens crushed in the hand, sprinkled over your smoking-blend base.

INFUSE offers two forms:

→ Whole flowers (10 / 20 / 50 g) — the most beautiful and the most holistic way. The whole experience of the flower opening, sinking back and re-forming in the cup.

→ Paste extract (5 / 10 / 20 / 50 g) — super-simple: a knife-tip (the size of a grain of rice) to dissolve in a hot or warm drink (~50-60 °C), in the evening. Obtained with pure water: the material soaks, boils, is strained, boils again, until it is concentrated.

Suggested ritual

The ritual of Isis

At dusk, set a white lotus flower in a bowl of water — and watch her open slowly: she is an evening flower, who unfolds as the day falls
Pour the hot water over her
Drink while the night settles in — without a screen, in silence

It is the reverse of Hathor's solar gesture with the blue lotus — it is the nocturnal gesture of Isis, keeper of thresholds.

We answer.

What is white lotus (Nymphaea lotus)?

What are the felt effects of white lotus?

What is the difference between white lotus and blue lotus?

Is white lotus a true lotus?

How do I prepare a white lotus infusion?

Does white lotus help to sleep and dream?

What precautions with white lotus?

Where do INFUSE's white lotus flowers come from?