Description
Other Names:
Aizoaceae (Family) / Kanna / Kauwgoed / Kougoed / Canna / Kougoed / Nature’s Prozac / Channa / mesembs / Mesembrianthemum / Mesembryanthemaceae (Family)
Botanical Description:
- A succulent groundcover which produces showy white flowers with threadlike petals.
- Its fermented roots and leaves were chewed by the Hottentots tribe of S. Africa as a vision-inducing entheogen and inebriant.
- Succulent leaves, bright shiny-petalled flowers and hygrochastic fruit (capsules open when it rains) characterize the group.
- A fast growing procumbent succulent, forming loose mats and often confined to the shade of Karoo shrubs.
- Its flowers are also very attractive, shiny, pale yellow to whitish flowers.
Part of Plant Used:
- Whole, dry plant
Main Uses:
Nutritionally beneficial for a relaxed sense of well being, mood elevation and reduced levels of anxiety stress and tension.
Other Traditional Uses:
- Anti-depressant
- Anxiety
- Appetite suppressant
- Attention deficit Disorder
- Empathogen
- Energy increase
- Grey-weather syndrome
- Irritability
- Irritability in menopause
- Libido
- Mood elevator
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Relaxant
- Smoking cessation support
- Social phobia
- Stress
- Study aid
- Tension
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