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Sceletium Elixir

4.8(11 reviews)

R 350,00

Sceletium tortuosum — kanna — grown organically in Stellenbosch, drawn down to an extract and taken up into coconut MCT oil. Two ingredients, 10ml of it, and 5mg of alkaloids in every millilitre.

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Important — do not combine with antidepressants

This product contains Sceletium (Kanna), which affects serotonin. Do not take it at the same time as SSRIs or other antidepressants or serotonergic medications (including MAOIs) — combining them can be dangerous. If you take any antidepressant, or you're unsure, please consult your doctor before using this product.

Sceletium Elixir

Sceletium Elixir

R 350,00

Sceletium Elixir

Sceletium Elixir

R 350,00

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Sceletium (Kanna)
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Sceletium (Kanna)

Sceletium tortuosum

Mood · Social · Calm

A succulent native to South Africa, traditionally fermented and chewed to lift the spirits and settle the nerves.

Heart & EmotionCalm & Stillness

Benefits, preparation, pairings, and how to use, all in one place.

A succulent native to South Africa, traditionally fermented and chewed to lift the spirits and settle the nerves.

Heart & Emotion

Rapidly lifts the mood and softens social edges.

Calm & Stillness

Provides a grounded state of calm resilience.

Traditional & Modern Context

Nature's empathy enhancer.

Known as 'Nature's MDMA' in some circles, though much gentler and safer.

“Traditionally fermented in animal skins to reduce oxalates and potentiate the alkaloids.”

Common Pairings
Cacao
Full plant profile
OriginSouth Africa
EnergeticsMood · Social · Calm
TimeDaytime / Situational
IntensityModerate
Considerations

Do not combine with SSRIs or MAOIs.

How to use

Chew, tea, or extract.

Ingredients

Contains only 2 ingredients:
Sceletium extract* & coconut MCT oil (as carrier oil)

*Sceletium extract is ~3% total alkaloids, ~80% Mesembrine

ORGANIC & LOCALLY grown in Stellenbosch, Cape Town

Suggested use

Sceletium is best taken orally, ideally sublingually (under the tongue), though it can be added to food or drinks. A typical daily dose is 1-5 drops, taken twice a day, usually after breakfast and lunch, but this can be increased as needed. Individual responses vary, so finding the right dosage is important.

You can also take 1-5 drops as a "rescue" dose for sudden anxiety or before stressful events. While exceeding 10 drops at once is not recommended, an overdose is not possible; high doses may cause temporary euphoria followed by tiredness.

It's crucial to consult a doctor before using Sceletium with prescription medications, especially SSRIs.

What people say

4.8

11 reviews

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Magical plant medicine

Sceletium is a subtle yet powerful medicine that can aid in coping with anxiety and depression. It is gentle at lower doses, creating space within which you can handle life with…
LukaszVerified

Sceletium Elixir

I really appreciate finding this elixir, my friend and I have found that it’s a lovely clean product, easier to access than the smoke... I only need 2-3 drops to feel uplifted…
LaraVerified

Feel good!

Sceletium is an amazing plant for keeping anxiety and stress at bay. After trying many different forms (chewing plants, taking capsules, snuff etc) these oil based drops, taken…
NoelVerified

Awesome service and product! (Sceletium)

I was given this brand of sceletium while going through a rough time and it really helped me. Very happy to have found something that I didn't have to go the chemical route. Also…
LavonneVerified

It really knocks anxiety for me and helps with insomnia

Sceletium Elixer has worked wonders for me in terms of anxiety - I'm calm as a Psalm these days! Together with Sativa 1:12, it's been giving me 7 - 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep…
ChristaVerified

Changed my life

This product has literally changed my life, I was on anti depressants and thyroid meds. 5 weeks today and I am a new person, it almost scares me. After living in a black hole for…
WendyVerified

Great product

This sceletium extract is really great. I use it daily to enhance my mood and combat stress. It really works. It relaxes and integrates body and mind without making me drowsy or…
DavidVerified

The Good Stuff

Different level to the sceletium I usually buy, as such have had a bit of a fun week adjusting dosage. But in general works amazingly as a mood enhancer and sustained energy…
LisaVerified

The product, in detail

The plantThe elixirHow to take itWhat's insideBefore you start
A worn timber table in low afternoon light: a fleshy-leaved succulent in a terracotta pot cropped by the frame at the left, a plain glass of water in front of it, the small amber dropper bottle standing on a folded cloth to the right with its glass pipette lying beside it, a window and a lived-in room out of focus behind.

Sceletium

The dose you can count

Sceletium tortuosum — kanna — grown organically in Stellenbosch, drawn down to an extract and taken up into coconut MCT oil. Two ingredients, 10ml of it, and 5mg of alkaloids in every millilitre.

A low succulent sprawling across dry stony ground in the shade of a thorny bush, plump grey-green leaves finely striped darker, trailing woody stems, one white many-petalled flower with a yellow centre open low among the leaves, rounded pale pebbles and cracked earth beneath and a dry hillside beyond.

The plant

The succulent, briefly

Sceletium tortuosum is a low, sprawling succulent of southern Africa — soft fleshy leaves on trailing woody stems, close to the ground and often in the shade of a larger bush, flowering white. The Khoikhoi dried it, chewed it and swallowed the saliva, and the first written account of that is Jan van Riebeeck's, in 1662.

The Sceletium Extract sold alongside this bottle is the same plant, dried and powdered rather than taken up into oil.

The plant behind this bottle is organically grown in Stellenbosch.

A bare timber table in daylight: a small glass jug holding clear pale yellow oil at the left, a shallow ceramic dish heaped with fine cream-coloured powder beside it, dried grey-green succulent stems scattered across the boards, the amber dropper bottle standing upright well back and out of focus.

The elixir

Extract taken up into oil

An elixir, here, is an extract carried in a fat. The plant is drawn down first — material into a solvent, solvent driven off, a small fraction of the original weight left behind holding the compounds the process was aimed at — and that fraction is then taken up into coconut MCT oil. Two ingredients go into the bottle and nothing else does.

MCT is the medium-chain fraction of coconut oil: the part that stays clear and liquid at room temperature instead of setting solid the way whole coconut oil does. It is the carrier. A concentrated extract is a very small quantity of very fine material, and the oil gives it a volume that can be poured, measured and drawn up into a pipette. Without a carrier there is no dropper, and without a dropper there is no drop to count.

That is what the oil buys over the powder. The extract is stated at around 3% total alkaloids, of which around 80% is mesembrine — the alkaloid named for the Mesembryanthemum family this plant belongs to, alongside the related mesembranol and mesembranone. We put 5mg of those alkaloids into every millilitre of oil, so a dose here is a number of drops rather than a pinch.

A hand cropped at the wrist holding a glass pipette above a plain glass of water on a linen-covered table, one round drop of pale oil hanging at its tip, the amber dropper bottle standing on the linen to the right, a dim room with a desk and a vase of dried flowers out of focus behind.

How to take it

3 drops, under the tongue

The oil goes under the tongue and is held there rather than swallowed straight down. It can also go into water, into a drink or onto food, but under the tongue is what we make it for.

3 drops is a typical adult dose and 5 is a strong one. The pattern given for regular use is 1 to 5 drops twice a day, after breakfast and after lunch, and more often than twice if it is wanted. Each drop carries somewhere between 200 and 250 micrograms of alkaloids depending on how large the drop comes out, which is why the guidance is written in drops rather than in milligrams.

10 drops at a sitting is the ceiling. Beyond that, everyone responds differently to Sceletium and to plant material generally, so treat all of that as a starting point and your own dose as the one that matters.

Consult a doctor before taking Sceletium alongside any prescription medication, and SSRIs in particular.

10ml bottle

10ml of oil · amber glass with a glass pipette

The only size the elixir is made in, and the one printed on the label.

What's inside

By weight, per ml of oil

Sceletium alkaloids · From organic Sceletium tortuosum extract — ~3% total alkaloids, ~80% mesembrine
5mg
Coconut MCT oil · The medium-chain fraction, liquid at room temperature
carrier
per ml of oil
5mg

The bottle is drawn to the actives in proportion to each other, not to the volume — the 5mg sits in a carrier that makes up the rest.

The oil

per ml of oil
  • Sceletium alkaloids · From organic Sceletium tortuosum extract — ~3% total alkaloids, ~80% mesembrine5mg
  • Coconut MCT oil · The medium-chain fraction, liquid at room temperaturecarrier

Two ingredients, in the order we list them. At 5mg of alkaloids a millilitre, a full 10ml bottle holds 50mg of them; at 200 to 250 micrograms a drop, that is roughly 200 to 250 drops in a bottle.

Before you start

A note on informed use

Plant medicine deserves preparation. For most people this is gentle and uneventful, but some situations call for a conversation first.

Talk to someone first if:

  • You take prescription medication of any kind
  • You or your family have a history of psychosis, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
  • You have a heart condition or blood pressure that isn't well controlled
  • You are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • You simply aren't sure whether this is for you

SSRIs and other antidepressants

They compete for the same serotonin receptors, and can dull the effect substantially. People who feel nothing at all are often taking one without having made the connection. It doesn't rule anything out; it does mean the timing is worth discussing with your doctor first.

Unsure where you sit? Email support@cosmicbazaar.com before you order — we would rather answer questions than take a sale someone regrets.

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About the brand

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Customer reviews

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Magical plant medicine

Sceletium is a subtle yet powerful medicine that can aid in coping with anxiety and depression. It is gentle at lower doses, creating space within which you can handle life with more grace, and at higher doses it can be heart opening and empathogenic. It has improved my life in many noticeable ways and I feel immense gratitude to it. The most common and widely available form is raw plant material (also sold here). This works well enough but can cause nausea at higher doses. This elixir is the ideal form in which to take this plant, since it does not cause nausea and it's very easy to dose. Start small and work your way up until you find your sweet spot. The experience is very clean, quite similar to the extract (also sold here).

LukaszVerified buyer

Changed my life

This product has literally changed my life, I was on anti depressants and thyroid meds. 5 weeks today and I am a new person, it almost scares me. After living in a black hole for many years I finally feel as if I have my life back.

WendyVerified buyer

Relieves my anxiety

I only take one drop a day and it helps to ease my anxiety and helps me to stay in the moment. Great service from Cosmic too. Thanks!

OdetteVerified buyer

Really good product

I've been using this for about a year now to calm my mind down when going to sleep...it really, highly recommend it

FatimahVerified buyer

It really knocks anxiety for me and helps with insomnia

Sceletium Elixer has worked wonders for me in terms of anxiety - I'm calm as a Psalm these days! Together with Sativa 1:12, it's been giving me 7 - 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep at night, which feels like a miracle. I also only have to take one drop at a time, so it's economical too.

ChristaVerified buyer

Pretty Good

First time I used the tincture it definitely grounded me a bit, but i feel like it needs more than 5 drops to work. Nice product will continue to use it and see how it works. Taste is odd, so I drink with water

JoanneVerified buyer