Tranquility Blend: Bobinsana, Blue Lotus & Kava — Freeze-Dried Squares | 20 ct

Each of these plants comes from a different tradition and does something distinct. Kava settles the body. Bobinsana works on the heart and the emotional field. Blue lotus turns attention inward, toward dream and image. Blended, they cover ground that none of them covers alone — which is why this is a single square rather than three separate products.

The texture is unusual and worth expecting: dry, light, closer to astronaut food than to a gummy. That is what freeze-drying does, and it is also why the actives keep so well.

Kava has been cultivated across Oceania for more than two thousand years — pounded, steeped in water, and shared from a communal bowl to open ceremony and mark hospitality. Pacific Island herbalism values it for a settled body and an easeful mind.

Bobinsana grows along riverbanks in the western Amazon. Shipibo and other Amazonian traditions know it as sirenita bobinsana, the little mermaid of the river, and work with it in dietas — extended periods of relationship with a single plant. It is regarded as a teacher of the heart, associated with empathy and emotional opening.

Blue lotus appears throughout dynastic Egyptian art, held to the nose in tomb paintings and carved into columns, and recurs across Indian and Nepalese iconography. It is traditionally associated with dream, vision, and the boundary state between waking and sleeping.

The three plants sit at very different points on the research curve, and it is worth being straightforward about that:

• Kava is the best studied. Kavalactones appear to act as positive allosteric modulators at GABA-A receptors, binding at a site distinct from the benzodiazepine site. Several also show activity at voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels.
• Blue lotus is studied less, and mostly indirectly. The flower contains aporphine alkaloids, principally apomorphine and nuciferine, which have known dopaminergic activity in isolation. Much of what circulates about blue lotus is extrapolated from that isolated pharmacology rather than drawn from studies of the flower itself. We would rather say so than overstate it.
• Bobinsana has almost no published pharmacology. Phytochemical screening has identified flavonoids and other constituents, but there is very little peer-reviewed work on how it acts. What is known about bobinsana is ethnobotanical — centuries of Amazonian practice — and that is a real form of knowledge, but it is not the same as mechanistic research, and we will not dress it up as such.

Where research exists it describes pathways, not outcomes. None of this is a claim that this product treats any condition.

• Freeze-dried · no preservatives · no chemical solvents
• Handcrafted from Hawaiian-grown plants
• Keep cool and dry. Shelf-stable for years in an unopened mylar seal
• Not recommended alongside alcohol or sedatives
• Bobinsana is not suitable for those seeking to become pregnant
• Consult your practitioner if pregnant, nursing, taking medications, or managing a liver condition

Bobinsana, blue lotus, and kava, at 30 mg each per square. Twenty squares per pouch.

Earthy and dry, with kava's characteristic tongue-tingle.

Freeze-drying removes water at low temperature, leaving a light, brittle square. It preserves the actives far better than heat drying.

Years unopened in the mylar seal. Once opened, reseal and press out the air.

Tranquility combines three plants in one square at 30 mg each. Ease is kava alone at 50 mg kavalactones. Expand is bobinsana alone at 125 mg. If you want one plant at a higher dose, go single. If you want the combination, this is it.

No. Tranquility Blend is bobinsana, blue lotus, and kava. Our kanna product is Heart.

• Meeting bobinsana: Christine's story
• Sacred blue lotus in five cultures
• How kava is grown and harvested
• Ancient plant sacraments