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While many calming herbs don't have much effect on me, the passionflower resin extract is excellent for my insomnia! Highly recommended.
Jean
Dream · 25 September 2024
I wrote a lot of them so much I love your shop. Nothing has changed Fresh passion passion, delicious, powerfully calming, subtle and at the same time strong Plant of choice I also love the Pink Lotus that I recommend at the bottom! And many more Passionflower, perfect to cure nightmares, sleep like a baby and drug withdrawal or just to have fun. My thing is to smoke Passionflower and vaporize it too. everything is excellent! In herbal tea of course or other!
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Dream · 11 June 2022
Passionflower is fantastic and helpful, I use an assortment of herbs and this one once or twice a day is always pleasant, flower or powder is really good, it lasts a long time too as you don't need to use much. Plus, it goes with elderberry and oolong nicely as well, so you can get creative with it.
James
Dream · 7 February 2025
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What is Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)?
Officinal passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is a perennial liana native to the southeastern United States, food and medicine for the Cherokee for millennia under the name pa-su-mi-na or ocoee. She is listed in several modern pharmacopoeias for her traditional evening uses — sleep, nervous agitation, mind that won't rest. INFUSE offers her as whole leaves, powder extract and resin paste, harvested in France, organic.
Why is she called Passion Flower — what link with passion?
The word passion comes from Latin passio, from Greek pathos — "that which is endured, suffering". In 1610 in Mexico, the Augustinian friar Emmanuel de Villegas read in the flower the Passion of Christ (the 5 anthers, the crown of filaments, the 3 stigmas, the tendrils, the 10 petals); the Jesuit Giacomo Bosio published the allegory that became standard. The name therefore evokes the passion-suffering of Christ, not amorous passion — Passionflower soothes inner spinning, not desire.
What are the traditional uses of passionflower?
Three living lineages cross the history of the plant. Among the Cherokee, maypop has been food and medicine for millennia (raw fruits, pounded roots, boiled young shoots). Among the Aztecs in Mexico, Passiflora was described for her sedative, hypnotic and magical properties, and used as a potentiator of other preparations. In the European pharmacopoeia since the 17th century, she is referenced for anxiety, nervous agitation and sleep disorders — uses notably confirmed by the German Commission E.
How do I prepare a passionflower tea?
For whole leaves — 1 to 2 teaspoons in a cup of simmering water (~90°C), infuse 10 to 15 minutes, strain. To drink early evening or 30 minutes before bedtime. The leaves can be reinfused up to 3 times. For powder extract — 1 to 2 teaspoons in a warm drink. For resin paste — a knife tip (size of a rice grain) to dissolve in a warm or lukewarm drink (~50-60°C).
Passionflower and sleep — how to use her in the evening?
Drink the tea around 9 pm, low lights, no screens. A 2020 clinical review (in descriptive statistics) reports an improvement in sleep quality and deep slow-wave sleep among people who consumed the extract. Traditional uses also confirm an effect on insomnia linked to rumination. To combine with Mulungu and Chamomile for the Brazilian "Sleep Trinity" formula.
Does passionflower help during benzodiazepine, cannabis or alcohol withdrawal?
A clinical study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry (2024) reports that passionflower can support benzodiazepine tapering in real-world setting, without documented addictive potential. Traditional and clinical uses also report support in cannabis, opioid and alcohol withdrawal. Any benzodiazepine withdrawal must be done under medical accompaniment — passionflower is an ally, not a substitute for the medical protocol.
What are passionflower's active principles?
Flavonoids are her main compounds — chrysin, apigenin, vitexin, isovitexin, orientin, schaftoside. Chrysin and apigenin are documented as modulators of the GABA-A receptor at the benzodiazepine site. The plant also contains maltol (light sedative aromatic) and traces of beta-carbolines (harmane, harmine, harmaline) at concentrations too low for clinical MAOI effect. The profile is complex — several systems modulated in parallel, which explains the soft and broad effect.
What are the contraindications of passionflower?
Avoid in pregnancy and breastfeeding (lack of solid data). Avoid in combination with sedatives, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, prescription hypnotics (potentiating effect). Avoid with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI). Caution with anticoagulants (warfarin, aspirin, clopidogrel). Stop at least 2 weeks before scheduled surgery. Avoid before driving or operating machinery. Passiflora family allergy rare but possible. Very low tolerance documented — long-term use considered safe.
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