Sananga Ceremony in Stockholm

What is Sananga?

Sananga is a traditional medicine made from the roots and bark of Tabernaemontana undulata, an Amazionian shrub found in Brazil and other South American countries. It is ground into a fine powder and extracted into a juice, then administered as eye drops. 

Sananga not only cleanses your eyes, but your mind and spirit as well.

Traditionally, Sananga is known to remove “bad eyesight” and establish “good eyesight.” The concept of vision can be understood not just as a physical ability, but also in a broader, more spiritual sense, as indigenous perspectives suggest. A negative outlook on the world, focusing on the negative, can be seen as a form of "bad eyesight." Sananga can alleviate this negative perspective, enabling one to approach life with a fresh perspective.

Sananga’s powerful spiritual benefits increase insight, remove unwanted energy, and open one's Third Eye. It can be used to treat mental disorders such as addiction, depression, and anxiety. 

Physically, it is used to treat and prevent ocular diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, farsightedness, nearsightedness, and even blindness. In Amazon tribes such as Kaxinawás, Matsés, and Yawanawá, it is commonly used to sharpen night vision while hunting. 

Sananga contains a natural mix of alkaloids (such as ibogaine, coronaridine, quebrachidine, heyneanine, 3-hydroxycoronaridine, ibogamine and voacangine), which have powerful psychoactive effects and can exert strong antibiotic effects.

The burning sensation that is felt after administration triggers the release of endorphins, a chemical produced by the body to reduce pain. These endorphins remain in the body long after the effects of Sananga have gone, leading to a lasting feeling of deep relaxation.

Benefits of Sananga

Sananga shows powerful potential to treat a spectrum of physical and psychospiritual illnesses:

• Treats and prevents ocular diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism, and blindness

• Detoxifies the body

• Increases visual perception and enhances colors

• Clears long-standing inner anger

• Used in conjunction, helps with mental disorders such as addiction, depression, and anxiety

• Resets energetic field

• Treats spiritual diseases (“panema”) caused by negative energies in the body. These spiritual diseases can accumulate in one’s energetic body and make one depressed and anxious.

Below are some of the benefits of the Tabernaemontana genus which is found in sananga:

• Antimicrobial: Studies show that Tabernaemontana pachysiphon and Tabernaemontana angulata, found in sananga, are effective in treating skin infections because of its antimicrobial properties.

• Antifungal: Tabernaemontana stapfiana is effective in preventing fungal growth.

• Antioxidant: Tabernaemontana genus also has strong antioxidant properties which play a critical role in preventing age-related ocular problems.

• Anti-inflammatory: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui has anti-inflammatory effects used for treating arthritis. 

• Anti-cancer: Study shows that Tabernaemontana species, specifically the T. elegans is an effective cancer killer.