Everything You Need to Know About Yopo

At Dutch-Smart, you can find a wide variety of products, including Yopo seeds. Yopo is a plant that also goes by other names: Anadenanthera peregrina and Piptadenia peregrina. We just call it Yopo—after all, it rolls off the tongue a lot better. You can make a snuff from Yopo seeds, which is called cohoba. In countries like Brazil, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, this was often used in rituals. The cohoba was blown into another person’s nostril using a special tool. With the Yopo seeds we sell, you can grow your own plant at home!

The Effect

Yopo is known for its powerful, hallucinogenic effect. This potent effect often results in some side effects when you use Yopo. These can include dizziness, vomiting, and headaches, especially when using higher doses. Many users say they have a psychedelic experience or enter a dream-like state. In most cases, the trip itself lasts about fifteen minutes, but you may continue to feel mild effects for another half hour to forty-five minutes afterward.

Preparing and using the seeds

As mentioned, you can use Yopo seeds to grow your own Yopo plant, but what do you do if you want to trip on them? To get the most out of them, you need to prepare the seeds properly. We’ll tell you how to do that, of course:

1. Heat the seeds over low heat until they burst open
2. Remove the inner part and discard the shell
3. Then heat the inner part over low heat; stop when the seeds become hard and grainy
4. Grind the seeds
5. Then mix two parts seeds with one part calcium hydroxide and one part baking soda
6. Add a few drops of water so you can form a dough
7. Mix well, then heat the mixture until everything has dried out. After that, grind everything again until you have a fine powder

Use a pan with a lid, because if the seeds burst open, everything might start “popping” (just like when you make popcorn yourself).

What you’re left with after these seven steps is a mixture you can snort. It can be helpful to have a friend blow it into your nose, so you get a larger dose than you could snort on your own. If you’re just starting out, start with the amount of powder from a single seed. For many users, a dose of three to five seeds has a truly psychedelic effect: taking more than five seeds isn’t really necessary and often causes more discomfort than pleasure.

Check out the Yopo seeds in the Dutch-Smart selection. Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact us at support@dutch-smart.nl or 085-7827555.