Blue Lotus Flower
Article by Stefan Burns - Updated October 2022. Join the Wild Free Organic email newsletter!
In the oldest Egyptian cosmogony, the world began when the Sun God Ra (Atum) emerged from a blue water lily growing in a dark pool of nothingness symbolizing chaos (Nun). This blue water lily is a plant that was sacred to Egyptian culture since the earliest dynasties thousands of years ago. Overtime the flower of the blue water lily (Nymphaea caerulea) evolved into a symbol of the cycle of life and death and was featured prominently in tomb motifs of the pharaohs and members of the highest caste, being one of the primary offerings the high ranking dead were decorated with for their journey into the afterlife. Blue lotus flower was used extensively in the religious and healing ceremonies of the high priests of Egypt, and Nymphaea caerulea was a herb revered because of its unique plant pharmacology which bestow upon it transcendental mind-altering properties.
Blue lotus flower contains an assortment of plant phytochemicals like alkaloids and flavonoids that together make it mildly psychoactive, sedative, and it’s a strong aphrodisiac. Blue lotus flower has these properties primarily because it normalizes the activity of the central nervous system by acting on dopamine and serotonin receptors in the brain. Little human-based research has been completed on blue lotus flower, but abundant research exists on its main chemical constituents apomorphine, nuciferine, and antioxidant flavonoids. In addition to this its rich history of use across many different cultures supports its use in treating mental health issues like depression, paranoia, and insomnia, as well as neurodegenerative problems like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. I have also personally experimented with the herb in a variety of ways and share my insights here.
Beyond its potential health and wellness uses, blue lotus flower is a herb that can be used to facilitate spiritual growth by tuning human consciousness to different dimensions of reality, and this shamanistic effect of blue lotus flower is especially powerful when combined with other psychedelic herbs like cannabis. Blue lotus flower can be consumed in a variety of ways for its wellness, spiritual, or recreational uses, most commonly as a tea or dry-vaporized or taken sublingually. In this article we take a deep dive into blue lotus flower and start by exploring the unique plant pharmacology which bestows upon it, as some would say, its psychic effects.
Table of Contents
Phytochemicals of Blue Lotus Flower
Blue lotus lily (Nymphea caerulea) is an African water lily, the flowers of which contain alkaloids apomorphine and nuciferine alongside many diverse flavonoids. Flavonoids are potent antioxidants with many beneficial biologic effects throughout the body, and the main flavonoids found in blue lotus flower are anthocyanins and different versions of quercetin, myricetin, and kaempferol, with “rare” versions of kaempferol and quercetin having been isolated before. All these phytochemicals all work together in an “entourage” effect giving blue lotus flower its unique physiological and psychological effects.
Before going into specifics, the basics of how blue lotus flower works is that apomorphine/apomorphine-like alkaloids non-selectively stimulate dopamine and serotonin receptors, nuciferine modulates dopamine transport and also stimulates certain dopamine and serotonin receptors, while flavonoids keep dopamine from destabilizing and oxidizing which creates cellular damage. This combination of chemicals, which all easily pass the blood-brain-barrier, is able to powerfully alter brain neurochemistry and promote neurogenesis.
Dopamine is an important hormone and neurotransmitter with many different functions throughout the brain, regulating emotions, learning, memory, and neuroplasticity, and it also helps govern motor control throughout the body. The direct precursor for dopamine is L-DOPA, which is synthesized in the brain and kidneys.
Serotonin in another important neurotransmitter that modulates mood, appetite, sleep, learning, memory, and general cognition, in addition to physiological acts like vomiting and vasoconstriction. About 90% of serotonin is produced in the intestinal tract through interactions between the digestive system and microbiome.
Apomorphine
Apomorphine has been described as a psychoactive alkaloid and is a non-selective dopamine agonist. Apomorphine is also a strong antioxidant being generally regarded as neuroprotective. Apomorphine was first synthesized by humans in 1845, though its medicinal and spiritual usage stretches back thousands of years because it is naturally found in the flowers of the African water lily Nymphaea caerulea.
Apomorphine can be produced by heating morphine in an acid solution (like hydrochloric acid), and apomorphine’s chemical formula (C17H17NO2) is similar to morphine (C17H19NO3) minus a water molecule (H2O). In spite of its name and similar chemical formula, “apomorphine has none of the habit-forming characteristics of morphine…no more like morphine than sawdust is like sugar” according to apomorphine advocate Dr. John Y Dent back in 1934.
Apomorphine is very lipophilic (likes fats) and is moderately soluble in water and normal saline solution. Apomorphine oxidizes rapidly with air and light exposure. Because of its high lipid solubility, APO equilibrates rapidly between blood and tissue compartments, and transient brain concentrations of apomorphine have been measured up to 8x greater than in plasma. The fact that apomorphine is highly soluble in lipids is relevant later in how it works nicely with cannabis (see Blue Lotus Flower and Cannabis).
Apomorphine Receptor Science
Apomorphine has a powerful action on the central nervous system and in multiple parts of the brain, but not on the vagus nerve, due to how to stimulates various neurotransmitter receptors. Specifically, apomorphine activates the cerebral cortex and attenuates inhibition of the thalamus by the internal globus pallidus. The thalamus sits deep within the brain and acts as a central hub which processes and relays sensory information (except smell) to the cerebral cortex for interpretation. Apomorphine is a non-selective dopamine receptor agonist and also activates serotonergic receptors and α-adrenergic receptors.
Blue lotus flower contains significant levels of apomorphine and apomorphine-like alkaloids, and this allows blue lotus flower to influence dopamine and serotonin pathways in addition to increasing the sensory throughput of the thalamus, aiding its mentally stimulating and mind-altering effects. In my experience, covered more in the later section Blue Lotus Flower and Cannabis, the psychedelic effects of blue lotus flower are only really noticeable when combined with another psychedelic like cannabis, or as the ancient Egyptians reportedly did with mandrake fruit and opium poppies.
Physiological Effects of Apomorphine
The main physiological effects of apomorphine are:
Lowers blood pressure
Lowers body temperature
Reduces sympathetic nervous system activity
Reduces prolactin secretion
Increases growth hormone
Promotes relaxation
Improves male sexual function
Dilates the pupils
Apomorphine is a highly potent antioxidant and free radical scavenger with a neuroprotective effect. This is quite valuable because dopamine, which apomorphine interacts with, is highly unstable and oxidizes easily which can cause cellular damage under certain conditions. Some of apomorphine’s neuroprotective effects are receptor mediated, and some are non-receptor mediated. One example of how apomorphine is neuroprotective is that activation of the D4 dopamine receptor inhibits oxidative stress-induced nerve cell death, and as a non-selective dopamine receptor agonist, apomorphine can bind to an activate the D4 receptor.
Apomorphine has a rapid onset of action and a relatively brief duration of effect of about 60-90 minutes long, though its pharmacodynamic effects last up to 30 minutes after its plasma concentrations fall below its “peak ineffective threshold”.
Apomorphine Metabolism and Bioavailability
Apomorphine is a high clearance compound that is mainly metabolized and excreted by the liver, with less than 5% of apomorphine introduced into the body being excreted unchanged in the urine.
Oral administration of apomorphine is not recommended because of its poor bioavailability and significant first-pass metabolism by the liver. In fact, very large doses of apomorphine can lead to an accumulation of a liver-produced nephrotoxic (kidney damaging) metabolite. Sublingual administration of apomorphine bypasses liver first-pass metabolism. Apomorphine does not require decarboxylation to be activated (like cannabinoids do), and it readily diffuses across the blood-brain-barrier.
There are many ways to consume blue lotus flower, and in the context of receiving the most apomorphine, then sublingual use of a 10:1 or 20:1 blue lotus flower extract will be one of the most effective methods. I have tried this before, taking a pea-sized amount of 20:1 blue lotus flower extract sublingually by itself, and didn’t notice anything other than a subtle improvement in mood and enhanced focus. For someone with Parkinson’s disease though, sublingual use of a blue lotus extract may reduce or eliminate their tremors and muscle spasms.
Conventional Medicinal Uses of Apomorphine
Since its first synthesis, in a clinical setting the main uses of apomorphine are for rapid gastric emptying, to promote sedation, and as an antiparkinsonian medicine which reduces tremors and muscle spasms.
Pure apomorphine was the drug of choice for any condition that required prompt emptying of the stomach until the 1970’s when better alternatives came along, because though the apomorphine induced vomiting*, it was usually followed by sleep which isn’t terribly helpful when diagnosing possibly toxic exposure.
*Note - In order to not scare anyone away from trying blue lotus flower because of apomorphine and its ability to trigger gastric emptying, the doses of pure apomorphine needed to trigger this are quite high and a lot of blue lotus flower would need to be consumed to reach this threshold. In addition to this blue lotus flower contains other plant phytochemicals which alters its overall physiological and psychological effects. Still, if you’re easily triggered into vomiting, then you should start very carefully with blue lotus flower or avoid it altogether.
The main medicinal use of apomorphine is in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by chronically reduced levels of dopamine in parts of the brain that leads to a hypersensitivity of brain cells concerned with motor control.
By triggering the neurotransmitter pathways that it does, apomorphine reduces Parkinson’s tremors and involuntary movements. Long term continuous use of apomorphine for a Parkinson’s patient like a continuous drip can lead to tolerance of the chemical, but because it is high clearance, only a four hour interval is required to prevent tolerance from building up.
Compared to other dopamine agonist, long term use of apomorphine is less likely to induce dopamine dysregulation syndrome characterized by hypersexuality or addiction to medication or gambling.
The most often reported clinical adverse effect from apomorphine is headache and nausea. Apomorphine is an expensive drug, and a safe and effective dose for apomorphine is still to be elucidated for many different conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. The benefit of using blue lotus flower to naturally and holistically help treat neurodegenerative diseases is that as a natural herb it’s easier and safer to dose, comes with less risk of side effects, and has a natural entourage effect with its other phytochemicals that makes it helpful for a wide range of health conditions in a way that is likely significant, just not concretely confirmed yet via modern scientific research.
Nuciferine
In addition to containing apomorphine, blue lotus flower also contains nuciferine alkaloids. Nuciferine has a rich polypharmacology as it and its metabolites easily pass the blood-brain-barrier, it has a high number of molecular targets, and it has good protein binding capability. Nuciferine is similar in effect to anti-psychotic compounds, and this effect of nuciferine pairs nicely with apomorphine, the two together being a good combination for treating conditions like depression, anxiety, paranoia, insomnia, and schizophrenia.
Nuciferine is an alkaloid is a partial agonist of certain dopamine receptors (D2, D5), is an agonist of D4 (making it neuroprotective), and nuciferine also modulates the dopamine transporter. The D2 receptor is a highly desirable target for antipsychotic effects, and nuciferine and apomorphine both trigger it (another reason blue lotus flower pairs nicely with cannabis).
Nuciferine has antagonistic, inverse agonist, and agonist activity across the many different serotonin receptors, and it has the greatest affinity at the serotonin receptors as compared to the dopamine receptors. For example, nuciferine has an activity about 2/3rds as strong as dopamine at the D2 receptor.
Dopamine and Dopamine Transporter Inhibition
One of nuciferine’s cellular actions is that it inhibits the dopamine transporter. Dopamine transporter inhibitors can be addictive, such as cocaine and heroin, but inhibiting dopamine transport also has the potential of being useful in increasing brain plasticity and improving overall cognitive function, so finding non-addictive dopamine transporters is important.
One of the main clinical uses of apomorphine back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s was for the treatment of addictions, and apomorphine is a dopamine receptor agonist with little ability to trigger dopamine dysregulation, one of the characteristics of which being addictive tendencies. The benefit of blue lotus flower is that by containing nuciferine and apomorphine together, it triggers the various dopamine pathways in a neuroprotective manner and modulates dopamine transport safely, increasing brain plasticity and improving cognition, without addictive tendencies developing. Nature is the best pharmacist, and the ancient Egyptians holistically knew this.
It’s useful to go more in-depth on dopamine and modulating dopamine transport because the dopamine system (along with serotonin) is the main neurotransmitter/hormone than blue lotus interacts with. Dopamine is involved in regulating synaptic plasticity, and is a crucial neurochemical mechanism underlying learning and memory.
Declining brain dopamine signaling during aging is associated with the onset of neurological impairments, and in the human brain dopaminergic signaling has been observed to decline 5-10% every decade. Elevated dopamine levels modulate synaptic neurotransmission, network activity, and synaptic plasticity. Increased dopamine levels can induce neuronal plasticity by increasing dendritic spine numbers and shifting their micromorphology toward more elaborate and thinner spine structures. Dendritic spine changes are thought to reinforce memory encoding by increasing synaptic neurotransmission, and dendritic spines generally decrease during aging.
Dopamine receptor subtypes differ in their downstream physiological outcomes, so modulating dopamine reuptake by modulating dopamine transport is a promising therapeutic strategy to balance dopamine levels.
One of the issues with dopamine is that it can oxidize to form reactive oxygen species or unstable electron-deficient quinones. The dopamine transporter is one of the proteins at high risk of oxidation by dopamine because it has a high affinity for dopamine. Under inflammatory conditions, some percentage of dopamine will oxidize and modify dopamine transport function, and another percentage of dopamine will oxidize and damage proteins, lipids, and DNA. Free radical damage is one of the main causes of neurodegenerative diseases. Dopamine oxidation products inhibit the uptake of dopamine into synaptosomes, both by interfering with dopamine transporter function and also by creating general oxidative damage. Dopamine toxicity can be prevented when it is released and transported in the presence of antioxidants.
Blue lotus flower is so valuable in the context of beneficially regulating the dopamine system because apomorphine itself is a potent antioxidant that helps dopamine from oxidizing, and nuciferine keeps dopamine transport smoothly functioning. The flavonoids blue lotus flower contains also easily enter into the brain and exert antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protective effects throughout the extracellular matrix.
Anthocyanin, Quercetin, Myricetin, and Kaempferol Flavonoids
Blue lotus flower contains a rich and rare assortment of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory flavonoids. Flavonoids are absorbed readily into the bloodstream, and if orally ingested, those that aren’t absorbed into the bloodstream make their way to the large intestine where the microbiome converts them into beneficial secondary metabolites the body uses. Flavonoids cross the blood-brain-barrier and exert their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects throughout the brain, and blue lotus flower containing abundant flavonoids is the final piece of the phytochemical puzzle that helps to explain blue lotus flower’s many health effects and wellness benefits.
By stimulating the dopamine system, blue lotus flower promotes the secretion of dopamine, a relatively unstable and easily oxidized chemical. The flavonoids of blue lotus flower, in addition to apomorphine and nuciferine help to keep the cellular environment of the brain free of dopamine-induced oxidative damage, which allows dopamine to better perform its critical biologic tasks and keeps the cellular infrastructure of the brain functioning normally. Blue lotus flower can be used to help offset age-related dopamine decline.
It’s the combination of apomorphine, nuciferine, and antioxidant flavonoids that make blue lotus flower such a compelling herb to use for enhancing cognition, improving learning and memory, preventing neurodegeneration, and for normalizing the functioning of the central nervous system. Balancing the nervous system is critically important for overall wellness and lifespan because the ratio between sympathetic (stress) and parasympathetic (rest) activity governs the cellular conditions and activity that occurs throughout the body.
Blue Lotus Flower Effects
Blue lotus flower can be consumed in a variety of ways, and going beyond the trio entourage effect of apomorphine, nuciferine, and flavonoids, the ratios you get of each varies via method of consumption and what it’s consumed with.
Blue lotus flower has powerful effects on the emotional, mental, and astral (dream) planes, but it’s not easily felt on its own. In experience it acts more as a potentiator for other psychedelic transcendental herbs like cannabis, mandrake, or opium.
The ancient Egyptians combined blue lotus flower with mandrake and opium into didi, an “elixir of life”. Mandrake and opium are possibly deadly herbs yet it appears the Egyptians were able to use them fairly safely by combining them with blue lotus flower. The unique dopamine and serotonin activating combination of blue lotus flower help keeps the body relaxed and parasympathetic.
Blue Lotus Flower and Cannabis
In the modern day narcotics are popular such as cannabis and tobacco, and with these herbs blue lotus flower can be mixed with. Cannabis raises your heart rate, nicotine gets you going, both are usually smoked, and in my experience this is where I feel the effects of blue lotus flower greatest. Every time I have smoked cannabis and blue lotus flower together the high has been better than if I had smoked cannabis by itself. Adding apomorphine, nuciferine, and extra flavonoids and terpenes to cannabinoids THC and CBD makes the psychedelic experience much grander. Your senses are broader, you can access vibrational realms rarely experienced and incredibly aligning. Smoking cannabis and blue lotus flower connects you with your breath and yogic principles for spiritual growth.
Blue lotus flower creates brainwaves in the the learning and memory centers of the brain, the hippocampus, where new brain cells are created freely. A healthy hippocampus is a healthy brain, a brain that is able to connect to the Earth’s brainwaves, the Schumann resonances. By entering into electromagnetic resonance with the Schumann resonances at 8 Hz, 14 Hz, 20 Hz, 25Hz, and 33 Hz, your brain “plugs in” to the collective consciousness of all life on Earth that has ever lived. Not all the answers are there, but Earth has a pretty rich and deep database of helpful information, if you learn how to access it.
By connecting with the breath during any vibrational downloads, revelations are bestowed upon you, completely reprogramming your operating system to be more efficient. To operate more from a place of love, compassion, and empathy, free of harmful impact.
I suppose I’m writing a trip report right now, and if you decide to try it yourself after considering the safety concerns, write your trip report in the comments below for all the world to see, and see if you can imprint that feeling upon the Schumann resonances too ;)
Blue Lotus Flower Aphrodisiac Effects
Blue lotus flower is a powerful aphrodisiac for both men and women. In fact you can trace the ability of this herb to induce sexual arousal by its Linnaean name - Nymphaea caerulea.
In greek mythology a nymph is a deity that takes the form of a beautiful young maiden. A nymphomaniac is a women with excessive sexual desire. Blue lotus flower has aphrodisiac effects for men and women because it targets the dopamine and serotonin systems while also increasing parasympathetic (feed and breed) nervous system activity.
Blue Lotus Flower for Men
For men, the primary benefit of blue lotus flower is that it helps stimulate and maintain erections. As such, blue lotus flower can be an effective herbal treatment for erectile dysfunction. Blue lotus flower effectively makes it easier to go from the processing of sexual stimuli (visual, olfactory, tactile, or imaginative) to a relaxing of the smooth muscles down below that make erections possible. Apomorphine in particular reduces prolactin levels, and prolactin is well known to inhibit erections. In fact it’s prolactin that’s released after ejaculation to turn off sexual desire and stop the erection.
By working with the paraventricular nucleus (the part of the brain that initiates erection and ejaculation signals) and by opening and closing specific ion channels in smooth muscles, blue lotus flower activates the male reproductive system and is very sexual arousing, given a trigger.
Blue Lotus Flower for Women
The aphrodisiac mechanisms of blue lotus flower for women are not as well understood as they are for men, but the effect is the same. Blue lotus flower is an effective herbal treatment for female sexual dysfunction because of how it alters dopamine, serotonin, and the functioning of the paraventricular nucleus. It’s the alkaloids found in blue lotus flower like apomorphine that are chiefly responsible for its aphrodisiac effect, so using blue lotus flower in a way that delivers these alkaloids directly to the brain without first being metabolized by the liver makes the effect stronger and more noticeable.
Blue Lotus Safety Concerns
The main safety concerns for blue lotus flower revolve around apomorphine. Remember one of the old medicinal uses for apomorphine was to induce vomiting, and the first time I combined blue lotus flower with cannabis and chamomile I felt the urge but was able to surpass it. At the time I was beginning to feel sick as my mucus was very thick and I also saw something very gross by chance which triggered the reflex, so if your stomach is feeling 100% great then you should be careful with blue lotus flower. I’ve never had any gagging or vomiting issues with blue lotus flower since.
Apomorphine can also cause fatigue, weakness, frequent headaches, and nausea. There are case reports, few and far between, of exceptional cardiovascular collapse in children and adults. Make sure your cardiovascular system is healthy and you’re relatively unstressed before using blue lotus flower.
The Egyptians used blue lotus flower as part of an elixir of life, and it was consumed prodigiously by the highest caste, so if consumed properly it appears relatively safe, and I would concur based on my personal N=1 experience. Drinking blue lotus flower tea is the safest way of using it, as it extracts the least amount of alkaloids, but it still extracts some, and you can consume this tea nightly for long periods of time in order to potentiate vivid, memorable, and lucid dreams.
Blue Lotus Flower Wellness Uses
For people not interested in smoking or dry-vaporizing blue lotus flower, which allows for its active compounds to bypass liver first-pass metabolism, then drinking blue lotus flower tea is an excellent option for consumption with many beneficial health effects. Blue lotus flower wine is also an option we’ll explore.
Blue Lotus Flower Tea
Alkaloids apomorphine and nuciferine are moderately water soluble. Water temperature can be adjusted up or down to roughly determine the level of blue lotus flower phytochemical extraction. Some of the alkaloids of blue lotus flower are metabolized into metabolites toxic to the kidneys, which then require processing. The body only excretes 5% of alkaloids in original form because as antioxidants they bind or donate to free radicals easily. You have to be mindful when consuming the alkaloids found in blue lotus flower that your body can process them safely. Don’t drink any alcohol when using blue lotus flower, as alcohol damages the liver and kidneys too much.
A dream tea can be created using blue lotus flower consisting of equal parts mugwort, damiana, chamomile, and blue lotus flower. Mugwort is a dream potentiator, damiana is a gentle mood booster, chamomile promotes relaxation and brainwaves, and blue lotus flower actives the hippocampus and limbic (emotional) system. The tea has a pleasant flavor and can be sweetened with honey.
Drinking this 1:1:1:1 blue lotus flower, mugwort, damiana, and chamomile dream tea helps treat depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and nightmares. Any emotional disturbances can be balanced out with the help of blue lotus flower as it gently rewires the brain by improving neuroplasticity. With these incredible effects you may want to drink it nightly, though I feel it’s best in my experience to drink this dream tea when you feel you need it rather than consistently everyday. Trust your timing and trust any insights you receive during the brain’s mood modification upgrade.
Emotional disturbances create oxidative conditions in the brain, and by reducing emotional disturbances to a minimum, blue lotus flower helps to keep the brain in a youthful regenerative state. From this platform of clear cognition spiritual growth can be launched from.
Blue Lotus Flower Wine
The alkaloids found in blue lotus flower can also be extracted using alcohol, and one way the ancient Egyptians used blue lotus flower is they steeped the flowers for a few days in red wine and then consumed the beverage. While I typically don’t recommend drinking alcohol for wellness purposes, red wine does contain a lot of beneficial phytochemicals like resveratrol, and not much wine is needed to extract a good amount of alkaloids from blue lotus flower, only about a glasses worth (5 oz).
A glass of blue lotus flower wine can be used to help with depression and as a general mood booster, or it can be used to establish a platform for spiritual exploration depending on how much is consumed and whether other psychedelics like cannabis are used.
Blue Lotus Flower for Spiritual Growth
Nymphaea caerulea, the African blue water lily, was the plant of greatest importance to the ancient Egyptian elite. The religious class, with the pharaoh claiming himself a demi-god at the top, consumed blue lotus flower as part of trance-like healing ceremony. Under the guidance of a shaman, during this healing ceremony the spirit was believed to separate from the body and commune with entities like spirit guides, past ancestors, and gods in the astral dimensions and beyond. In these realms of higher consciousness, a metamorphosis of the spirit takes place, and upon returning to the body with a new bioelectrical code, heals the body with the “software” upgrade. Bioelectricity is what programs DNA, and if your DNA is creating stressful cellular conditions, then the body destructively ages.
Dry-Vaporizing Blue Lotus Flower
To receive the greatest benefit from blue lotus flower with the least impact on health, then it is best dry-vaporized. By heating the plant material to below combustion temperatures, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenes, and other phytochemicals are volatized out of the herb and inhaled alongside water vapor. This herbal vapor is absorbed into the bloodstream by the lungs, allowing a majority of the active phytochemicals to cross the blood-brain-barrier unmetabolized. Dry-vaporizing blue lotus flower alongside cannabis, or smoking them for that matter, increases the overall bioavailability because Nymphaea caerulea alkaloids are highly lipid soluble and combine nicely with sticky cannabinoids.
In the modern day where mandrake and opium aren’t widely used (and for good reason) I think dry-vaporizing cannabis and blue lotus flower together is a highly compelling way to experience spiritual dimensions of reality in a way that is relatively safe and harmless to the body.
My favorite dry-vaporizers are made by Healthy Rips, I highly recommend their Fury Edge used with dosing capsules so the vaporizer stays clean. You can precisely choose the chamber temperature for precise extraction of phytochemicals like different cannabinoids, it has a long battery life, and it is very efficient, producing big clouds of vapor.
Energetic Infusion
Before you proceed with any method of consuming herbs, you can infuse them with energy of your choosing to direct your spiritual experience.
For example if you feel you need emotional stability, place any herbs you’re using, say the dream tea blend, in-between your hands and say what you want to help you achieve emotional stability. In this case you could infuse them with Earth energy, acceptance, and balance. The more psychedelic the experience, the more your affirmations at the beginning are powerfully felt and realized. Combining cannabis with blue lotus flower is a safe way to powerfully interact with the emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of reality. The benefit of mixing the two together is that while blue lotus flower is only subtly felt on its own, it eliminates the paranoia and anxiety that is common to cannabis. CBD also reduces paranoia and feeling of anxiety induced by THC, and adding CBD into the herbal blend improves the stability and depth of the experience even further.
Blue Lotus Hallucinations
Establishing a sacred ritual around herbal practices just as the ancient shamans used to do creates a sense of responsibility to not take the situation lightly and helps to deeply guide you in your sacred journey. Depending on to hat degree you disconnect from the material realm, your spirit body can let go of the physical body and begin to energetically travel at the speed of light, transmitting to and receiving information from different layers of consciousness around the world instantly. Use a lot of psychedelics and you begin to access the implicate order beyond space and time, and you have greater choice of whether you return to your body or not.
I’ll share a personal story. On the night before a full moon I drank blue lotus flower red wine and shared in a couple blue lotus flower and cannabis joints with friends. I was well potentiated after the wine and first joint, and shortly after the second joint, everything felt more vivid and light began to shift and sway. Looking at the full moon I saw shapes dance across its surface, enacting an endless cosmic drama to all who would simply look up. I felt connected to the wholeness of reality and felt the truth of the fact that everything happens for a reason. I felt safe and supported and in control of my destiny. This experience of higher consciousness, of not feeling like I was simply enacting out programmed behaviors beyond my control, lasted for the rest of the night and afterwards I felt I had made significant progress in tuning into and aligning with my higher spirit.
Steeped in red wine for three days, a 1/4 oz of blue lotus flower provided a broader foundation for the cannabinoids to reach upwards from. The energy of the full moon amplified everything. Your environment cannot be overlooked in its importance in determining any psychedelic or spiritual experience. If you intend to pursue the spiritual journey, then do everything you consciously can to improve your environment before embarking upon any psychedelic experience. This is the key to having good trips, and we want to avoid bad trips as they can lead to even more severe emotional and mental disturbances which require healing from on their own.
Return from the Underworld
The myth of the Egyptian god Osiris is symbolic of the life cycle of the blue water lily. For three days the flowers of the blue water lily grace the water’s surface, blooming a sweet narcotic nectar. On the third day drowsy bugs become trapped as the flower closes and the stems coils, drawing the flower back under the water’s surface, into nothingness. Similarly the Osiris myth has Osiris murdered by his brother, and for three days he explores the underworld before being resurrected. It was the life cycle of the blue lotus flower that provided the inspiration for the myth of Osiris, among many others.
Using blue lotus flower in combination with other herbs like cannabis, chamomile, mugwort, and damiana creates an environment conducive to drawing emotional and mental pains to the surface, sedating them, and then allowing them to be dragged into nothingness on the third day.
Blue lotus flower is a herb that teaches you the truth of that “to heal the body you must first cleanse the soul”.
Blue lotus flower is truly a elixir of life if used for this purpose, just be careful to not abuse this sacred plant, or you may find yourself as the drowsy bug trapped in the flower on day three.
Where to Buy Blue Lotus Flower
I have used blue lotus flower from two different vendors.
One was a local apothecary I discovered by chance while visiting Edinburgh, Scotland. The quality was quite good.
The second source, from which I’ve now purchased 5 oz from, is Schmerbals Herbals. They have a popular Etsy store, but if you go directly to their website you’ll find the prices are about 50% cheaper and you’ll get free shipping on orders over $35 using a coupon you can find in the coupon section of their website. The dried flowers I received from them (imaged at the top of the article) are of a very high quality, and are easily steeped into a tea or ground down for dry-vaporizing or smoking.
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