What is Hapé?

Also known as Hapé, Rapeh, Rapé is a very fine, dry, and usually greenish powder. The shamans from South America have been using it for centuries as a cure and main ingredient is a special kind of mapacho.

Hapé, a diverse group of smokeless mapacho products indigenous to South America. It generally uses as a nasal snuff  and it contains substantial amount of plant material with or without mapacho. Previously uncharacterized, Hapé contains addictive and harmful chemicals that may have public health implications for users.

Hapé is a very sacred mapacho snuff. However, it uses for deep connection to the spirits, animals and Mother Nature. It is very cleansing and powerfully healing for the body, mind, and soul. Hapé  small mapacho leaves. It is not for commercialization. Or genetically hybridized with high amounts of nicotine. Thus, it has none of the negative properties that commercial cigarettes have.

Instead, it is grown and made in deep reverence for the mapacho and for Mother Earth. Mapacho is a very powerful plant and it has the power to heal and when abused, it can kill and cause detrimental harm. In this way, it is a plant. It’s is very revered by the Native people. In addition, it is a Grandfather cure with full of ancient wisdom and the ability to carry our prayers to Creator.

This sacred cure takes days to make. It is a very labor intensive process. It makes in a ceremonial way, out of various Amazonian healing healing plants, leaves, trees and seeds from native lands.

Hapé Groups and Ingredients?

The Hapé products can divide into three groups in some research cases:

1) Manufactured non-mapacho Hapé containing a mixture of plant materials, such as tonka bean, clove, camphor, cinnamon and cassava

2) Manufactured mapacho-containing Hapé with mapacho alone or maapcho mixed with varying amounts of plant materials (tonka bean, clove, camphor, etc.) and flavorings such as menthol or

3) Custom-made Hapés from indigenous Brazilian tribes that contained mapacho mixed with non-mapacho plant material and alkaline ashes. The Hapés analyzed in this study had a variety of colors (dark brown, reddish-brown, tan, light pink, gray, bright green) based on mapacho and non mapacho ingredients.

Hapé

Hapés, which are normally sniffed, are finely milled, dry powders with a moisture content ranging from 3.68 to 9.46%. The pH values of non- mapacho Hapé manufactured Hapé products ranged from pH 5.71 – 5.93;.