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Rapé | Hapé

Shaman Serving Rapé Hape´Tepi

Rapé (pronounced Hapé) is a traditional Amazonian nasal snuff deeply rooted in indigenous culture and spirituality. Prepared from a blend of medicinal plants, often centered around Nicotiana rustica (mapacho), it is administered nasally through a V-shaped pipe known as a kuripé or a long pipe known as a tepi.

Botanical Composition

  • Core ingredient: Nicotiana rustica (mapacho)

  • Additional plants: Psychotria viridis (ayahuasca vine) and various medicinal herbs and tree barks

  • Each plant contributes unique properties to the blend

 

Cultural Significance

  • Central to Amazonian indigenous life

  • Used in rituals, ceremonies, and daily life

  • Fosters community, healing, and spiritual connection

  • Deeply rooted in ancestral knowledge and traditions

  • Respect for nature and ecological balance

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Preparation Process

  • Meticulous and often sacred process

  • Involves plant selection, harvesting, drying, grinding, and mixing

  • Specific rituals and techniques vary between tribes

  • Ash from specific trees often added for potency and spiritual significance

  • Modern practices may include sterilization for hygiene

 

Effects

  • Physical sensations: sneezing, increased salivation, warmth, energy

  • Mental clarity: enhanced focus, concentration

  • Spiritual experiences: connection to self, nature, and the universe

  • Emotional release: catharsis, release of blocked emotions

  • Physical well-being: potential support for respiratory and immune function

  • Potential: nausea, lightheadedness, or purging.

Risks and Precautions

  • Allergic reactions to plant components

  • Nasal irritation

  • Overdose from excessive use or strong blends

  • Contamination from improper preparation or storage

  • Intense emotional or spiritual experiences

 

Safety Guidelines

  • Start with small doses

  • Choose a trusted source for hapé

  • Create a safe and supportive environment

  • Consider having a sitter for initial experiences

  • Consult with a healthcare professional if needed

 

Rapé and Other Modalities

  • Can be combined with yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound therapy, and plant medicine ceremonies

  • Enhances the benefits of these modalities

 

Historical Context

  • Originated in ancient Amazonian civilizations

  • Used by tribes like Yawanawa, Katukina, Huni Kuin, and Shipibo-Conibo

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Rapé should be approached with respect, caution, and a deep understanding of its cultural context.

7 Herbs HK

A versatile blend offering a balanced mix of stimulating and calming effects. Suitable for various purposes, including meditation and spiritual practices.

Alfavaca

Alfavaca contains healing, astringent, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, carminative and antibacterial properties. This medicine assists in concentration, meditation, relaxation and expansion of consciousness.

Angico

Angico hapé supports the energy field of our physical body and gives us strength to meditate and to be awake all night during ceremonies. It is always good for concentration and can help alleviate stress and fatigue while promoting focus and clarity.

Aroeira

Made from the mastic tree bark and tobacco, Aroeira rapé is valued for its strong medicinal qualities. It boosts immunity and promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Known for its astringent, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial effects, it's used for headaches, sinus issues, and a variety of conditions like gastritis, bronchitis, and fever. Popular among Katukina Nokekoi and Kaxinawa Huni Kuin tribes.

Ayahuasca

This energetic blend allows you to feel the scent of the vine. Ayahuasca Rapé is appropriate for medicine wheels and ceremonies and gives us a feeling of liberation and purpose. This medicine anchors us and helps us align ourselves to our higher selves.

Bobinsana

A gentle blend with a soothing and calming effect. It's often used to promote relaxation and reduce anxiety.​​

Cacau

Rich in antioxidants and natural stimulants, Cacau rapé can provide a sense of well-being and energy. This Rapé blend works to connect the energies from the subconscious and bring light to the occult parts of the hurting process by stimulating courage and personal pleasure. The polarities integrating between the lower and upper chakras produce a feeling of well-being.

Canela

A spicy and stimulating blend that can increase energy levels and enhance mood. It vigorously acts on the three centers of our lives: mental, emotional, and physical. This plant is known for its effectiveness in helping with nerve control and brings us the wisdom to cultivate a positive standing with our colleagues and family members.

Canelerio

Caneleiro rapé helps people to clear painful memories of the past and to focus on the present moment with a strong intention. This medicine can help us free ourselves from anxiety.

Cajueiro

Made from the bark and trunk ash of the cashew tree, this rapé is known for its powerful energetic cleansing and physical strengthening. It heightens self-awareness and perception, similar to Ayahuasca. It has a strong, spicy burn and is anti-congestive. Traditionally used to support addiction recovery (like smoking or alcohol), it also eases depression, anxiety, and headaches. Used by the Fulni-ô and Kariri-Xocó tribes in daily life and sacred Jurema ceremonies. Also serves as a natural dewormer and purgative.

Chacrona

Contains the chacrona plant, the primary source of DMT in ayahuasca. This blend can induce deep psychedelic experiences. This energetic blend allows you to feel the scent of the vine. Ideal for medicine retreats and ceremonies, this blend gives us a feeling of liberation and purpose. Chacrona blend grounds us and helps align ourselves to our higher selves.

Cumaru

This rapé activates the third chakra and the crown chakra, calming the mind and opening a spiritual view to the extra-physical perceptions of the light of the atmosphere. Mental focus and meditation are the keywords for this type of medicine. 

Envira Ferro

A rare and potent rapé from the Shawandawa people, made from the ash of the envira-ferro tree. It delivers intense purging effects, a strong burning sensation, and can numb the body. Traditionally used to clear "panema"—an energetic heaviness or lack of motivation. Often part of Ayahuasca and Kambo ceremonies. Despite its power, it's not yet widely known.

Hunikuim

A traditional blend used by the Huni Kuin people, known for its energizing and purifying properties.

Imburana

A grounding and balancing blend that can help reduce anxiety and promote relaxation. Imburana is intensely stimulating and invigorating. It acts through the element of fire by clearing and decongesting the entire respiratory system by strengthening it and bringing energy to it. Imburana Rapé brings mental clarity and helps to discharge stagnant energies in the body. Strong doses can lead to dizziness and cleanliness. Contraindicated for people who have labyrinthitis. For people who have imbalances in vision it is recommended to first remove the glasses. 

Ipê Roxo

Used for spiritual alignment and protection, this rapé promotes mental clarity, immune support, and pain relief. It has anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antifungal, antioxidant, and even anti-cancer properties. Traditionally used by the Kamayura and Tupi-Guarani peoples, it’s made from the bark ash of the vibrant purple-blossomed ipê tree, common in their region.

Jarina

A blend with sedative and relaxing properties, often used to relieve anxiety and promote sleep.

Jatoba

A stimulating and energizing blend that can increase focus and concentration. This blend is often used in dancing ceremonies to provide the natives with harmony and focus as they make collective movements. Jatoba rapé is a rare blend due to the small quantity of tribes that use and share it.

Jenipapo

Crafted by various Acre tribes (like the Shanenawa and Huni Kuin), this rapé blends tobacco with ash from the genipap tree. It supports cold relief, liver health, anemia, and can act as a laxative or dewormer. Used in Ayahuasca, Kambo, and Sananga ceremonies, it enhances spiritual and physical vitality, detoxifies the body, and sharpens focus—especially for crafting or hunting.

Jurema Prieta

Mimosa hostilis, popularly known as Jurema Preta in Brazil, is a plant known to be utilized for extracting DMT, especially for recreational use. This plant has an uplifting effect and can be considered one of the strongest blends we offer. Jurema gives us the opportunity to step into more of who we are and strengthen our communication and harmony with the spirits of nature and mother earth. Jurema brings us a great cleansing while adding harmonious growth to the auric field. It also offers the power to listen with attention and care to our own feelings and those of our brothers. This entheogenic plant with hallucinogenic and stimulating properties moves the energies of the body and mind, opens the connection of the channels, and brings you in better contact with your dreams and intuition. 

Mulaterio

Calycophyllum spruceanum is an excellent medicine that has been used by the Acrean and Amazonian tribes for many years. It adds strength to one’s spiritual energy and helps us to refine our self-perception - how we look at ourselves and realize ourselves. Mulateiro teaches us to overcome the past and "grow" stronger roots in the present. This snuff is very special because of its strength and the special wisdom that the ashes and tobacco bring us. A strong and earthy blend with a cleansing effect, it's often used for spiritual practices and to promote grounding. This powerful snuff rapé can increase body temperature as it strips fatigue from the body and mind to bring a feeling of refreshment and presence. 

Mumu

A gentle and soothing blend that can promote relaxation and reduce anxiety. Mumu Rapé anchors our base energy and our connection to the earth, releasing locks. It is used for physical and energetic cleansing and dissolution of accumulated blockages. It is a potent and intense snuff with a lasting effect and can cause bodily purges and other types of releases such as crying, tremors, sweating and diarrhea. Very powerful snuff made from ashes of Mulateiro and Murici, Tobacco Mói.

Murici

This blend works the lower chakras and the depth of our interior. For a deeper cleansing, it is recommended to withdraw disease energy from the body and mobilize states of energetic stagnation. A strong and deep snuff, Byrsonima crassifólia acts strongly on the physical body, cleansing the strength of the muscle fibers and the hardness of the bones. It is very effective in cleaning and re-energizing the frontal lobe of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Because Murici ashes have some natural ibogaine-like seeds, they act as catalyzed spiritual energy in the mind and cause people to become self-aware. At times one may enter a journey state of internalization and spiritual understanding.

Nukini

A strong and energizing blend, often associated with strength and protection.

Parika

A spicy and stimulating blend that can increase energy levels and enhance mood. Parika provides a sense of presence, and reconnection to the sacred; it awakens the inner healer in us and opens the connection with our ancestors as it moves the energy of the body. This snuff is used by therapists and healers because it promotes a clearer contact with the energy of the other given the sensitivity of the proper application of therapy. Extra strong snuff.

Pau De Parreira

A grounding and balancing blend that can help reduce anxiety and promote relaxation.

Piri Piri

A spicy and stimulating blend, which can increase energy and concentration.

Pixuri

A sweet and uplifting blend that can promote a sense of well-being and happiness. This spiritual snuff opens the quantum field, connecting with the heart chakra and with the pineal chakra. It is great for conducting studies and activities that require high concentration and focus. Pixuri Rapé awakens the feminine energy, bringing sensitivity and intuition through our own creative potential. Physically, it strengthens the immune system and is recommended in cases of low vitality. With specialized professional accompaniment, this rapé can be an excellent medicine in the cases of average depression, chronic anxiety and treatment of addictions. It is not indicated for people with mental imbalances such as schizophrenia or bipolarity, and/or who use controlled psychoactive drugs. 

Puyanawa

The Puyanawa are an indigenous ethnic group from Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, who prepare this medicine. Puyanawa snuff has the strength of the Murici tree and the wisdom and sacred energy of the Pixuri tree; these assist us in our healing process, connection with our inner and higher self, manifesting awareness, and concentration to receive spiritual guidance from the great spirit of the forest.

Red Tsunu

This hapé comes from a different tree and the most difficult to find - the Red Tsunu tree. It is generally used for ceremonies and healing treatments of the native shamans and healers from the Katukina and Shawandawa tribes. The elders say that Tsunu hapé helps us get in contact with the spirit of the jungle and also serves to balance our feelings and behavior. It can help cure nasal obstructions such as sinusitis and rhinitis, and has a strong effect on the physical body. It cleanses the dimensions of our energy field, and gives strength to our spiritual selves. This was we may focus and concentrate on our healing purpose - a state of mindfulness and spiritual understanding.​​

Samaúma

Samauma hapé is an ancient blend from the biggest tree of the Amazon. Samaúma hapé gives us an intense feeling of grounding and alignment to our higher self. It teaches awareness with respect, as it is a profound opportunity to be in contact with such an ancient and overwhelming spirit of the jungle.  

Samsara

Samsara is a very respected medicine by traditional indigenous knowledge given its bronchial dilating, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. It is also known to be able to cure headaches. Samsara medicine is a plant much sought after for snuff because of its aroma and for being a plant with spiritual strength, but it is difficult to find.

Sananga

Contains sananga plant extract which is used to cleanse the eyes and strengthen spiritual vision. This Rapé is rare and unique because it is so light in color, energizing, elevating, warm, and clarifying. The energy of this rapé comes from the Golden Kundalini Serpent and immediately enters the pineal gland and crown chakra with warmth and light.  The crystal cold and clear energy penetrates as it spirals toward the heart, solar plexus, and base of the spine to provide an entire alignment. This energy breaks all blockages without a problem and helps you to channel the energy outward into the universe. This rapé is perfect for using with your hands to heal yourself and others as it truly awakens the healer within the chakras in your hands. It liberates the mind of negative thoughts, conducing a space for meditation; it clears our minds and betters our intuition to promote strength, relaxation, and spiritual wellbeing.

Shanenawa

A potent blend with a strong, earthy aroma. It's often used for its cleansing and purifying properties.

Tsunu

A potent and traditional blend known for its purgative and spiritual properties, Platycyamus regnelii is generally used for rinsing, cleansing and balancing. It is also very good for reconnecting us with nature. Tsunu rapé is mainly used by the Yawanawá tribe and can help cure of nasal obstructions such as sinusitis and rhinitis.This hormonal and endocrine neuromodulating snuff harmonizes energies between the physical and etheric. It raises our vibration and rebalances the entire energy and respiratory system by providing balanced strength.

Vashawa

A blend with energizing and stimulating properties, often used to increase strength and vitality.

Vei De Paje

A powerful blend, often used by shamans in ceremonies.

Yarumo

A blend with calming and relaxing properties, ideal for relieving anxiety and stress.

Yawanawa Fuerza Femenina

A blend specifically formulated for women, with energizing and strengthening properties.​ This medicine comes from the Yawanawá tribe and brings great cleaning, healing and protection. 

Yawanawa

A traditional blend of the Yawanawa people, with a variety of therapeutic properties.

Please note: Individual experiences may vary.

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