Kaigo Botanicals
Kaigo Botanicals is our living garden in Jamaican sun grown, hand tended plants cultivated for ceremony. We pair tradition with science, using organic-leaning methods, and batch notes (with selective lab testing) to keep every harvest clean and traceable. Small, seasonal lots support Kaigo House, Kaigo Studios, and our Mountaintop programs with botanicals and fungi for integration. We aim to steward respectfully, growing what we use. We are not allowed to make any medical or therapeutic claims about these plants but we find all of these to be nifty organisms with fascinating properties for one reason or another.
Blue Lotus
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Revered in Egyptian iconography blue lotus has been a companion to human society since 2,000 B.C.
It’s properties bring relaxation, peace and creativity.
Ashwaganda
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Described as a companion plant in Indian and Ayurveda. Listed since 600 B.C.
This plant has relaxing euphoric but non psychedelic properties. It is often associated with strength and vitality. We use it for you in times of stress or difficult journey
Lemon Verbena
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Used in South America since B.C. Lemon Verbena has traveled around the world. Brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 1600’s this plant has been used for its incredible terpene profile. An incredible mix of Citral, Limonene, Eucalyptol, Geraniol, β-Caryophyllene and Linalool makes this little wonder one of our go to Post session tea components as well as an oil for certain massages and ceremonies.
Salvia Divinorum
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Salvia divinorum has been used for centuries by the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, in sacred night ceremonies of healing and divination. Chewed as fresh leaves in candlelit rituals, it served as a bridge to the spirit world — a tradition dating back nearly a thousand years.
Morning Glory
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Morning glory seeds, rich in the visionary compounds, were used by the Aztec and other Mesoamerican peoples in sacred rites of divination and healing. Known as ololiúhqui in Nahuatl, they opened a gateway to visions and guidance from the spirit world. A practice reaching back hundreds of years.
We pretty much do the same thing today. It’s pretty cool. Come check it out.
Cacao
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or over 3,000 years, cacao has been revered as a sacred plant — from the Olmec and Maya to the Aztec, who called it the “food of the gods.” Prepared as a rich, bitter ceremonial drink, it was used to open the heart, deepen connection, and honor the divine in both daily ritual and sacred ceremony.
We like to use it in brews, teas, and tonics during retreats. We have over 100 Cacao trees on Soulja Mountaintop.
Hawaiin Baby Woodrose
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Hawaiian Baby Woodrose is a climbing vine holding woody seeds imbued with potent ergoline alkaloids. Used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years as a healing and strengthening plant, its seeds also echo the visionary legacy of morning glory, opening paths of insight and altered states in ceremonial use.
N. Rustica Tobacco
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Nicotiana rustica, a powerful wild tobacco, has been central to ritual life across the Americas for millennia. With nicotine levels up to ten times stronger than common tobacco, it has been used by shamans as smoke, snuff, or infusion to cleanse, protect, and carry prayers into the spirit world.
Cannabis
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For thousands of years, cannabis has been woven into human ceremony — from ancient India and China to the ritual smoke of Africa and the Caribbean. Revered as both medicine and sacrament, it has long been used to open the mind, ease the body, and connect communities in sacred space.
Psilocybin Mushrooms
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Psilocybin mushrooms have been honored for millennia — from the painted caves of prehistoric Africa to the sacred ceremonies of the Mazatec in Mexico. Long regarded as “flesh of the gods,” they have been used to open visions, heal the spirit, and guide seekers into deeper communion with the divine.
Having been a human tradition for literally thousands of years we don’t see a reason to change what’s not broken. We cultivate several strains from P. cubensis to panaeolus.
San Pedro Cactus
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For over 2,000 years, San Pedro cactus has been used in Andean ceremonies as a sacred teacher plant. A visionary plant, it has guided healing, divination, and communion.
Bufo Alvaris
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Bufo alvarius, also known as the Colorado River toad or Sonoran Desert toad, is a large amphibian native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Damiana
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For over 1,000 years, the Maya and Aztec honored Damiana as a sacred healing herb, using it in ceremony to lift the spirit and restore balance.
We use it as a companion plant that has the ability to synergize with other allies.
Kava
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For over 3,000 years, Kava (Piper methysticum) has been used in South Pacific ceremony. Prepared from its roots, the drink brings deep relaxation, gentle euphoria, and a grounded sense of clarity and connection.
pretty sweet after experience drink.
Rhodiola
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Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small cactus containing mescaline, a powerful psychedelic compound known for facilitating deep spiritual insight and emotional healing. Traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of the Americas in ceremonial settings, it supports introspection, trauma release, and connection to the divine. Users often report enhanced self-awareness, empathy, and a sense of unity with nature. Research suggests peyote may help treat depression, addiction, and PTSD when used in therapeutic contexts.
Syrian Rue
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For at least 2,700 years, Syrian Rue has been burned as sacred smoke across ancient Arabia—its seeds long used in ritual fumigation to clear the air, open perception, and connect with unseen realms.
Basically its terpene properties are excellent for certain types of alertness and ritual.
Sage
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For over 2,000 years, sage has been sacred across the ancient Mediterranean—burned in Roman and Greek temples to cleanse and inspire wisdom, and later cultivated in monastic gardens, its name rooted in ‘salvare,’ meaning ‘to save.
Guayusa
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Guayusa has been a sacred wake-up call for over 1,500 years. Indigenous Amazonian peoples—especially the Kichwa (Quechua) and Shuar communities in Ecuador and Peru—have used its leaves each dawn in communal rituals, brewing the plant as tea to energize the body, enhance dream recall, and open the heart for storytelling and spiritual connection.
Very good after a dreamroot night.
Brugmansia
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For centuries, Andean shamans have employed Brugmansia in sacred rites of divination and healing, invoking powerful visions through its potent alkaloids.
We don’t really use this unless specially requested and we call in a shaman that specializes in it’s use.
Virola
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For generations, Virola trees have held a place in Amazonian spirituality, regarded as sacred allies by tribes such as the Yanomami and Witoto, who turned to them for visions, guidance, and healing