Sananga: Spiritual Opening Eye Drops

Sananga

For traditional Amazonian tribespeople, sananga is a powerful eye medicine used to sharpen night vision. For those of us in the modern world, however, sananga does more than just help with hunting.

Often used as a precursor to Grandmother ceremonies by the Kaxinawa and Matsés tribes of Brazil, these powerful eye drops have a healing power that’s more energetic than physical, and that has the capacity to increase spiritual insight in the minds of those who use it.

Benefits of Sananga

Sananga is still used by many tribes in the heart of the Amazon, but its benefits are reaching the rest of the world as these tribes open up ceremonies to outsiders and train those who are interested in the administration of the eye drops. Used either in conjunction with a Grandmother ceremony or Kambo ceremony, or as a stand-alone treatment, sananga shows powerful potential to treat a spectrum of physical and psychospiritual illnesses:

• Treats and prevents ocular diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism, and blindness

• Detoxifies the body

• Increases visual perception and enhances colors

• Clears long-standing inner anger

• Used in conjunction, helps with mental disorders such as addiction, depression, and anxiety

• Resets energetic field

• Treats spiritual ailments, or “panema”, caused by negative energies in the body. These spiritual diseases can accumulate in a person’s energetic body and make a person depressed and anxious.

The human eye is a particularly sensitive organ, which means a sananga ceremony can be painful. These sacred, shamanic eye drops cause an intense burning that usually lasts a few minutes, but experienced practitioners say this pain is an important part of the healing process. Shamans advise you breathe deeply into the intensity to gain the most from its benefits—it is by leaning into the pain that you can cleanse not only your eyes but your mind and spirit as well. Once the pain leaves and the sananga is no longer in your body, you’re left with a feeling of immense relaxation.