Description

What is Hapé?

Hapé is the preparation of powdered medicinal herbs administered through the nose as a snuff. Hapé quickly and intensely produces effects that make the user feel alert and elevated. Typically, mapacho (nicotina rustica sacred tobacco) which contains about twenty times the nicotine of common tobacco is used as a base for Hapé, and other plant medicines are added for various effects.

This ancient practice of consuming powdered plant medicines through the nose dated back to the pre-Colombian days and was first observed among the indigenous tribes of Brazil. To these tribes, hapé is a sacred shamanic medicine with extensive healing and other powers. Other uses include inducing visions, increasing energy, and heightening the senses with the aromatic fragrance of the plants used in the blend.

Several tribes traditionally use Hape, and they each produce their own specific Hapé blends. These tribes include but are not limited to the Shipibo, Katukina, Yawanawa, Kaxinawa, Nukini, Kuntanawa, Apurinã, Ashaninka, and Matses.

In general, Rapé has the following effects: it deeply helps to reconcile and open all your chakras, improves your grounding, releases any illness on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, opens the third eye, decalcifies the pineal gland, removes any mental confusion, it releases any negative thoughts, removes all negative entities, connects you with your divine breath and enhances your connection with the Spirit.

Please note that after application of Rapé, you may experience cleansing, vomiting, bowel movements and increased saliva, which is a normal reaction when your energy and physical body releases blocked energy, toxins and diseases. It is good to have a bucket, toilet paper and drinking water at hand.

Each Rapé has different vibrations, different properties, carries different information, differs in subtlety and has very different effects on the energy field. In addition, after you build a deeper relationship with each Rapé – She becomes a powerful plant teacher for you to ask any questions or go to any sacred ceremony with a specific purpose.

During the Ayahuasca ceremony, Rapé is commonly used by the Yawanawa, Kaxinawa-Huni Kuin and Katukina (Brazilian tribes) to relieve illnesses, dissolve blocked energies, find visions and look clearly.

It is important that Hape(rapé) is used with clear focus and intention. A state of clear mind and meditation is desired before administering to yourself, it is recommended to have a long study and understanding of this medicine as well as receiving an initiation before serving to others as it is a highly energetic medicine. Please get in touch if you require more information on the use of hape or where to be initiated in how to serve for others.

These natural products are offered for their ethnographic and historical value and are delivered with no expressed or implied fitness for a specific purpose. It is simply a raw botanical specimen, or a scientific sample.

The information provided is purely meant for historical, scientific and educational purposes and should never be interpreted as a recommendation for a specific use. The use and application of our product is at the customer’s decision, responsibility and risk. All products are sold not for human consumption.

Yawanawá Txunu (rapé)

This hapé is a traditional Yawanawa blend, made with ashes of the Tsunu tree and tobacco. This particular blend has been prepared by our friend Hukena Yawanawa, from the village of Mutum, which is a village based in the Amazon rainforest around Acre, Brazil. Hukenas hapés are known for their clear, focused and strong effects. This particular one has a medium to strong force, perfect for any of a prayer work we hold with this beautiful medicine.

Hukena Yawanawa, started her journey on the path of spirituality at a very young age, being one of the youngest women of her people to be initiated into the Muka diet, one of the most sacred and important spiritual diets in her tradition, receiving it from the hands of the master pajé Tata, and her mother Hushahu, the first female pajé of her people. Since then, she has dedicated her walk to the study of sacred medicines.