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Rubus idaeus is named after the goddess Ida who hid the infant Zeus. Since antiquity, midwives have transmitted it as a bidirectional uterine tonic. Fragarine, isolated in 1941, confirms it. Here is the plant that accompanies an entire feminine life.
⧖Celebrating the Natural Way
Guayusa, Yerba Mate, Tulsi, Ceremonial Cacao, Adaptogenic Blend, Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Reishi — eight plants that hold up energy without coffee's chase, lineage by lineage.
❦The Cacao Trail
Theobroma: food of the gods. Not a marketing compliment — an ethnographic observation. From the Olmec of 1500 BC to the Tzeltal Maya and modern ceremonial circles, cacao carries 5300 years of lineage. This is not the story of a superfood. It is the story of a sacred flesh crossing civilisations.
❦The Way of Smoking Plants
The House's smoking herbs sorted into four families (neutral bases, flavour bases, complements, resins), their sourced traditions, our measured recipes, and the truth about smoke.
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Reishi, lion's mane, cordyceps, chaga and three more: the tradition behind each mushroom, how to read an extract, how to prepare it, and why we promise no effect.
❦The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
Ashwagandha, shatavari, rhodiola, maca, reishi, cordyceps, schisandra. Seven plants arranged by geography: their native name, the tradition that drinks them, the form in which we offer them.
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One root in ten in the maca fields of Junín comes out of the ground black. What the Andes read in its colour, the legend of the Inca warriors, and how it is eaten.
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About one root in five, in the maca fields of Junín, comes out of the ground red or violet. Where its colour comes from, what the Andes read in it, and how we prepare it.
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Six to seven roots in ten in the fields of Junín: yellow maca, the one families on the plateau eat every day, sun-dried, then cooked as a porridge or in milk.
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Six to seven roots in ten in the fields of Junín: yellow maca, the one families on the plateau eat every day, sun-dried, then cooked as a porridge or in milk.
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One root in ten in the maca fields of Junín comes out of the ground black. What the Andes read in its colour, the legend of the Inca warriors, and how it is eaten.
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About one root in five, in the maca fields of Junín, comes out of the ground red or violet. Where its colour comes from, what the Andes read in it, and how we prepare it.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
The Conqueror of Mountains, the black gold of the mountains: the resin born of rock over the centuries, from Shiva to the herders of the Altai, and the pure paste we offer.
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The alchemical morning latte: it awakens the fire (Tejas) and anchors the vital essence (Ojas). Six plants from India, Mexico, the Andes and Estonia, and the way to prepare them in warm milk.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
Ayurveda's rasayana, with its hut of three enclosures and its rasayana of conduct; the adaptogen of Lazarev and Brekhman, born in Soviet laboratories. Two histories told side by side, with their dates.
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The Amazonian holly the Kichwa drink before dawn while telling each other the night's dreams: the wayusa upina, the tomb of Niño Korin, the word Runa, and our leaves from Ecuador.
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She of a hundred roots, she of a hundred husbands: the Sanskrit name of India's wild asparagus, its place among the rasayana, the milk of the forty days, and our root powder.
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The holy basil India prays to every morning before drinking it: the story of Vrinda, the courtyard altar, the plant's yearly wedding, its three varieties and the way we brew it.
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The golden root, a plant of all extremes: from Dioscorides to the Vikings, from the Golden Mountains of the Altai to our morning decoction, the story of Rhodiola rosea and the way we drink it at the House.
☥The Way of Adaptogens & Mushrooms
Hot water dissolves beta-glucans, alcohol dissolves triterpenes. Dual extraction combines both: how it is done, and why we use it for reishi and chaga, and not for lion's mane or cordyceps.
❦The Way of Smoking Plants
Wild Dagga is NOT cannabis. No THC, no CBD, no cannabinoid receptors. It is Leonotis leonurus, a South African mint with coral-orange flowers. The Khoikhoi called it dachab millennia before the word was transferred to hemp. A thousand-year-old respiratory and nervine medicine — a gentle bronchodilator, antispasmodic, mild sedative. If you are looking for cannabis, this is not the right plant.
☥Ancient civilizations
Tussilago farfara pierces the still-frozen earth at the start of spring — yellow flower on bare ground, before any leaf. Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Pliny prescribed it for cough. In the Middle Ages, its flower was the sign of apothecaries. Here is coltsfoot, the plant of the lungs and of the tired courageous.
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A rare plant of the sun and of warm nights — one that does not light desire but keeps it company. Companion of the Guaycura of Baja California, Maya-Aztec ally of Cacao, and today part of INFUSE's Love Elixir and Euphoria Blend.
☥Ancestral history
Twelfth-century Rhineland. A Benedictine abbess receives visions and translates them into a living pharmacopoeia: the Physica, 230 plants classified by their temperament. At the center of it all, viriditas — vital greenness, the green force that binds body, soul and cosmos.
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For the Khoisan of South Africa — one of the oldest living human cultures, 100,000 years of continuous genetic lineage — she is kanna. Old mother still young. Empathic ambassador. SSRI + PDE4. The plant that does not amplify — she dissolves the walls.
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Lavandula angustifolia takes its name from the Latin verb lavare, to wash. The Romans perfumed their thermae with it, Hildegard prescribed it against evil spirits, and the Virgin Mary is said to have dried the swaddling clothes of Jesus on its bushes. Here is the plant of the threshold of sleep.
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Kapikacchu — she who itches like a monkey — for the urticating fuzz of the pod. Plant of Ayurvedic Vajikarana (to make horse-like) and of Kampavata (parkinsonian trembling, treated a millennium before L-DOPA). 4 to 6% raw L-DOPA in the seed. Modernity copies ; tradition knew.
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Mucuna pruriens carries the highest known natural concentration of plant L-Dopa (4–6%). A double-target pillar — CEO biohackers reaching for dopamine, focus and libido without third-party standardized extracts, and Ayurveda practitioners who have known Atmagupta in the Charaka Samhita for 4,000 years. Full timing/dose/cycle protocol. Whole-plant vs. standardized-extract table (8 criteria). The living Konda Reddi lineage of Andhra Pradesh, credited. Red lines laid down — MAOIs, SSRIs, Parkinson's, pregnancy. A clear refusal of Sensoril/KSM-66/Withanex. Not a substitute for pharmaceutical levodopa.
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Cotton-soft leaves like rabbit ears, a straight spike like Aaron's rod, a Presence 2,000 years old in European lungs. Mullein is the great Companion — the one who carries without shining, who receives without judging, who has lit the witches' torches since antiquity.
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Verbascum thapsus lays a velvet blanket on the burnt chest. Roman soldiers carried it as a torch and a talisman. Witches burned it at Samhain. The Cherokee rubbed it under the armpits. Here is the matriarchal grandmother of the lungs.
☥Ancient civilizations
Chamaemelum nobile is the plant that responds to pressure by giving more — trampled, it releases more fragrance. From the Ebers Papyrus to Beatrix Potter, 3500 years of teaching the body to set down without resistance.
☥Alchemy & spagyric
Sixteenth century, Basel. Paracelsus burns the works of Galen before his students and declares: nature is the only book. He invents spagyrics — the alchemical extraction of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury — and lays the foundations of a medicine of signatures. A forerunner of modern pharmacology and of systems thinking, he remains one of the most misunderstood figures in the history of plants.
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Documenting the ancestral knowledge of plant contraception without recommending it. From the extinct silphium of Cyrene to the Queen Anne's Lace of Appalachia, from Ayurvedic neem to Quechua practices, this historical and anthropological guide traces what women knew for millennia — and why, today, self-medicating with these plants is dangerous. For real contraception: a midwife or a doctor. This content is documentary.
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A macerated-oil recipe for respectful tantric massage, drawn from the Shiva-Shakti lineage. Three carrier oils (jojoba, almond, sesame), five activating plants (damiana, rose, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, jasmine), three essential oils (sparingly), and above all the ritual intention.
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Rosa damascena. Bulgarian Valley of the Roses, three thousand petals for a single drop of essential oil. Plant of grief that no longer crushes, of the heart that softens without breaking. INFUSE works the buds, the petal, the absolute — never synthetic rose oil. Sister of Tulsi in Ayurveda, of Hawthorn in European herbalism.
☾Kaari Uni
'Inner journey', 'spirit guide', 'death and rebirth' — these terms circulate freely. But shamanism, mysticism and contemplation are three modes…
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Spagyrics — from the Greek spaō (to separate) and ageirō (to reunite) — the alchemical art of drawing from a plant its three Philosophical Principles (Mercury, Sulphur, Salt), purifying each apart, then recombining them. Paracelsus (1493-1541) names and codifies it. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) carries its cosmology upstream. A pillar of editorial authority sourced in the work of Junius, Bartlett, Burckhardt, Jung, Hildegard. No spagyric elixir is sold — but here is the house that understands it. The Mercury of the spagyrists is not metallic mercury. The distinction is vital.
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The yoni steam (vaginal steam bath) is a practice documented among the Maya (bajos), the Koreans (chai-yok), West Africans, and Indonesians. Medicinal plants infused, steam brought to the perineum. This guide traces the traditions, examines modern science (few studies, limited methodology), offers a respectful protocol, and lists the absolute warnings (pregnancy, IUD, active infection — never).
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Nelumbo nucifera — the flower the Buddha made bloom at every step. Grows in the mud, blooms immaculate. Sanskrit Padma, padmasana of the gods, thousand petals of the crown of the skull. Plant of slow meditation and noble sleep, to be distinguished from the Egyptian Lotus Nymphaea.
❦Learning from the Master Plants
Tabernanthe iboga, the sacred root of the Babongo and the Gabonese Bwiti, is one of the most potent master plants in the world. This article honours it: botany, chemistry (ibogaine, noribogaine, hERG cardiotoxicity), the living Bwiti lineage (Babongo, Mitsogo, Apindji, Massango, Fang), the initiation in the mbandja with the ngombi and the nima na kombo, and the Western debt to Gabon. INFUSE does not sell it — not as a warning, but out of respect. Sources: Schultes-Hofmann, Rätsch, Pendell, Fernandez, Alper, Mash, Glue, Lotsof.
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For the Shipibo-Conibo of Peruvian Amazonia, she is semein — the heart-plant. Small riverside tree with pink-white pompom flowers. The water that returns long enough undoes the stone. Bobinsana reorganizes the heart without forcing it — patience, fluidity, post-trauma teaching.