African Dream Root

Name: African Dream Root
SKU: AfricanDreamRoot
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Silene undulata

Indigenous to the green river valleys of the eastern cape province of South Africa, this obscure flowering species is regarded by Xhosa diviners as a sacred plant with the ability to induce remarkably vivid and prophetic dreams.

Xhosa shamans regard the plant as a type of “Ubulawu” or medicinal root that they call “Undlela Ziimhlophe,” which literally translates to “white paths” or “white ways.”

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African Dream Root – Silene undulata

Xhosa: iindlela zimhlophe — “white ways/paths”, also known as African Dream Root (Silene capensis,) is a plant native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. egarded by the Xhosa people as a sacred plant. Used by the Xhosa people of South Africa to induce vivid and prophetic lucid dreams, particularly during the initiation journeys of shamans.

The Xhosa believe that their ancestors can be best contacted through dreams, and so they use S. capensis to receive assistance and advice from those ancestors, classifying it a naturally occurring oneirogen similar to the more well-known Dream Herb Calea zacatechichi.