Plants & botanicals.
Kanna, blue lotus, damiana and the dream herbs. Each name opens a different corner of the smartshop. Pick a plant that caught your eye, then get to know its story and the products you will meet.
This is the home for the plant guides in our smartshop area. Each guide asks what the plant is, what the sources say and where they stop. It is for anyone curious about a name they have spotted on a shelf. Some of these names cover more than one plant or product, so the identity question comes first.
What brought you here?
Begin with Kanna: meet the plant behind the extracts, which shows how much one name can cover.
Jump to its guide below; each stands on its own.
Blue lotus: what is it, actually? and Dream herbs explained both start with which plant is meant.
Read Supplements, herbs and medication first, then the plant you are considering.
Good questions.
Useful places to start.
- 01
What is the plant, why do the products differ, and what did small studies find?
Kanna: meet the plant behind the extracts
- 02
Which flower is it, what do lab analyses find, and what does the safety picture look like?
Blue lotus: what is it, actually?
- 03
Where does the famous reputation come from, and what do animal and lab studies show?
Damiana: beyond the shop description
- 04
Which three unrelated plants share the label, and where does research stop?
Dream herbs explained: African dream root, seed and uvuma-omhlophe