Looking to tap into a magical experience or elevate your health and wellness game with the power of hallucinogenic plants? While cannabis and magic mushrooms often steal the spotlight, there’s a wealth of lesser-known plants that deserve your attention.
So buckle up and get ready for a wild ride as we explore the hidden magic that can transform your wellness journey. Meet the four exotics fueling the sparkle in our soon-to-launch Trippin’ Gummies: kanna, yohimbe, mucuna pruriens, and huperzia serrata.
A New Generation of Magic Gummies Has Arrived
If you’ve loved our original Euphoria, Uplift, and other effects-based collections, you will adore our new Trippin’ Gummies. This next-generation mushroom gummy is coming soon and designed to deliver sparkly euphoria, a natural mood boost, along with elevated sensory perception and deeper emotional connection.
But here’s the twist—these gummies don’t rely on psychedelic mushrooms for their magic. Instead, their effects come from a carefully crafted blend of hallucinogenic and psychoactive plants—with kanna extract, yohimbe bark, mucuna pruriens, and huperzia serrata taking center stage.
Each ingredient in these trippy gummies was handpicked for its ability to create precise, targeted effects that could take your experience to exciting new heights. Combined with functional mushroom extracts such as lion’s mane and cordyceps, adaptogens such as gingko biloba and l-theanine, and nootropics including citicoline and ashwagandha, these gummies offer an innovative—and legal— way to explore the psychedelic sensations you’d expect from magic mushroom products.
Like all Urb creations, Trippin’ Gummies are crafted with the same commitment to quality, supported by rigorous third-party testing and our trusted product standards. Now that we’ve introduced you to the stars of the show let’s dive deeper into the story behind each of these magical ingredients.
Kanna Extract For the Sparkles
Whether enjoyed traditionally or in contemporary preparations, kanna remains a fascinating plant with a rich cultural history and a range of potential benefits.
What Is Kanna?
If you’re familiar with natural plant-based remedies that promote a sense of well-being, you may already appreciate the ways certain botanicals can uplift and enhance the human experience. Kanna offers a similar type of transformative effect due to the compound mesembrine found in its leaves.
Kanna (or Mesembryanthemum tortuosum) is a striking flowering plant revered by the Khoisan, considered ancient Africa’s “first people.” It can be used in its raw form, but traditionally, it was allowed to ferment naturally before consumption by either chewing it or placing a pinch under the tongue for slow absorption. Today, it is often brewed into tea or made into kanna extract for a more user-friendly experience.
How Kanna Works
When kanna is ingested, it has been shown to improve the absorption of serotonin while offering a subtle boost to memory and attention. Kanna’s effects on the brain track closely with those of the class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), widely used to treat depression, anxiety, and other disorders.
Mesembrine, the active ingredient in kanna, is a psychoactive alkaloid known for its ability to influence mood, reduce stress, and create a calm yet elevated state of mind. Whether in whole plant form or extract, kanna may deliver a distinct euphoria, functioning as an all-natural mood booster. Those who’ve tried it describe it as imparting a feeling of peace and comfort that’s unique in the world of psychedelic plants.
Potential Kanna Effects and Benefits
Given what we know about kanna’s effect on the brain, it should come as no surprise that it’s under intense study for its potential benefits on anxiety, depression, and other mental conditions. Studies on the kanna extract known as “Zembrin” have shown that the drug has a powerful calming effect on the perception of threat or anxiety. It’s also being used in other studies as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
But it’s kanna’s effect on mood that imparts much of our Trippin’ Gummies sparkle. Studies demonstrate that kanna may intensify psychotropic effects, reduce stress, and enhance sensory and emotional depth.
Potential Kanna Side Effects
There are certain circumstances that argue against the use of kanna. Some physicians warn that combining it with MAO inhibitors, SSRI antidepressants, and drugs such as MDMA may increase the risk of serotonin syndrome, an unpleasant and, in rare cases, potentially deadly condition. If you’re considering taking any product that contains kanna, talk to your doctor before diving in.
Mucuna Pruriens For Natural Uplift
Mucuna pruriens, also known as the velvet bean, monkey tamarind, and lacuna bean, is a plant with many names. Whatever you choose to call it, this fascinating legume is known for its highly unusual traits. In addition to its traditional uses, modern research is uncovering a whole host of potential beneficial effects associated with this humble bean.
What Is Mucuna Pruriens?
Native to Africa and Central Asia, mucuna pruriens is an important component of Ayurvedic medicine, an ancient system of health and wellness practices rooted in India that has existed for over 5,000 years. Though it is used as a food for nourishment, its medicinal uses include treating upset stomachs, pain, and snake bites.
Like other hallucinogenic plants, mucuna pruriens contains many active compounds. One of the most important is levodopa—or L-DOPA—a precursor to the critical neurotransmitter dopamine. This helps explain why mucuna pruriens may impart a special feeling of euphoria, emotional engagement, and a sharpening of sensory perceptions.
How Mucuna Pruriens Works
Thanks to its L-DOPA content, mucuna pruriens may affect the reward pathways associated with dopamine, which is strongly connected to pleasure, satisfaction, and motivation. Dopamine also helps regulate memory, mood, concentration, and other bodily functions. In rodent-model studies, mucuna was shown to help alleviate anxiety and depression and also helped test subjects successfully manage obesity—an effect believed to be tied to dopamine’s influence on reward.
Potential Mucuna Effects & Benefits
While dopamine isn’t considered psychoactive in and of itself, a large release of the neurotransmitter tends to trigger a euphoric state. Since mucuna contains L-DOPA, it may help produce this critical brain chemical. Researchers believe this may be key to understanding how the compound partners with our bodies to impart its unusual yet subjective effects.
Mucuna appears to have a very dose-dependent psychoactive quality. While more research is needed, some evidence points to the plant’s expression of hallucinogenic tryptamines, which may impart their own special euphoric sensations to the experience.
Mucuna is also associated with an array of potential medical benefits. Studies have suggested that it may treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms, have heart-protective effects, and improve male fertility.
Potential Mucuna Pruriens Side Effects
Although acute toxicity from Mucuna pruriens is uncommon, it can still occur, particularly when the seeds are consumed raw. Fortunately, this risk is significantly minimized when the plant is processed and included in a supplement, such as our Trippin’ Gummies.
It’s still important to note that mucuna pruriens contains L-DOPA, a compound that can cause side effects like nausea, vomiting, and dizziness when taken in excessive amounts. It may interact with antidepressant drugs and medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease, and should not be used with other medications containing L-DOPA.
Yohimbe Extract For the Feels
Yohimbe has a long history as a health supplement thanks to yohimbine, its core active compound. With reported effects ranging from elevating sensory perception to deepening emotional resonance and euphoria, it’s a crucial component of our delicious Trippin’ Gummies.
What Is Yohimbe?
Sourced from an evergreen tree found in West and Central Africa, yohimbe has long been revered as a curative for fevers and coughs. It’s also been used as an aphrodisiac, with modern research uncovering its promising potential, including its use as an enhancement supplement for sexual and athletic performance, high blood pressure, and diabetic neuropathy.
How Yohimbe Works
Modern clinical studies have confirmed that yohimbe has the potential to affect the release and reuptake of certain neurotransmitters. One mechanism was shown to stimulate the release of norepinephrine, a compound that helps encourage the body's "fight-or-flight" response to danger, increasing heart rate, blood pressure, and energy levels. It may also help regulate alertness, arousal, and attention.
As with the other compounds present in our Trippin’ Gummies, yohimbe may also impact our serotonin and dopamine pathways, increasing sensory perception and euphoria.
Potential Yohimbe Effects & Benefits
While large-scale studies on yohimbe’s exact benefits are lacking, there’s evidence for some promising effects. One study on male sexual performance found that the compound significantly improved erectile function, a finding backed up by a second study released in 2021. One trial on yohimbe extract and exercise found that while the drug didn’t increase muscle mass, it may positively affect weight loss.
Of course, there are always yohimbe’s purported psychoactive effects, which—like those of mucuna pruriens—appear to be dependent on the amount of yohimbine consumed. There are no modern studies on yohimbe’s hallucinatory effects, though an older study from 1961 makes note of its “psychic effects.”
Potential Yohimbe Side Effects
Yohimbe extract is not without potential risks. Some sources have determined that the compound can increase heart rate, trigger anxiety, and cause high blood pressure. Yohimbe may trigger interactions with other prescription drugs, including antihypertensives, norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (NRIs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), other antidepressant medications, and blood pressure medications, among others. For those who suffer from certain mental health disorders, taking yohimbe may increase reactivity, delusions, and hallucinations.
Huperzia Serrata Extract For Presence
Long used in traditional Chinese medicine to promote circulation, reduce fever, and serve as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic, huperzia serrata is now being studied for its potential benefits on brain health and function.
What Is Huperzia Serrata?
Also known as Chinese club moss, huperzia serrata is the source of huperzine A, a purified extract with known neuroprotective qualities and other effects. Ancient physicians first used the plant—under the Chinese name “Qian Ceng Ta”—to treat memory loss.
How Huperzia Serrata Works
Huperzine A is a neuroprotectant, meaning that it can protect brain cells from inflammation, injury, and other stressors. Some studies indicate that it may increase levels of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter responsible for signaling between nerve cells to help regulate memory, muscle movement, and learning. One study suggests that the compound may even do what—until now—has been impossible: reversing some of the debilitating symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Huperzine A may also help relieve specific types of chronic pain.
As it relates to our Trippin’ Gummies, huperzine A may also increase dopamine levels in the brain. As we’ve seen with previous compounds, this can broadly affect brain function, mood, and euphoria.
Potential Huperzine A Effects & Benefits
Due to its aforementioned positive effect on acetylcholine, there are indications that huperzine A may improve memory and focus. Part of this is due to the compound’s ability to suppress acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that rapidly breaks down acetylcholine and degrades its effectiveness. The result is potentially greater memory, sharper focus, and the experience of euphoria.
Huperzine A’s Potential Side Effects
According to the latest research, huperzine A's potential side effects are considered mild. They may include nausea, increased thirst, abdominal pain, dizziness, insomnia, and other potential effects. Huperzine A may interact with medications used to treat Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma, and anticholinergic drugs.
Legal Mushroom Gummies Made from Magical Plants
We’re beyond excited to introduce our plant-powered Trippin’ Gummies, a cutting-edge trippy experience crafted not from magic mushrooms but from a meticulously curated blend of potent compounds, including kanna, yohimbe, mucuna pruriens, and huperzia serrata.
These botanical heavyweights are complemented by a smartly designed mix of nootropics, adaptogens, and functional mushrooms, creating a formula that delivers a new type of stimulating magic experience. Whether you’re seeking a boost of creativity, enhanced focus, or just a fresh perspective, our groundbreaking gummies are your launchpad to chart an entirely new course. Want to find out when these gummies drop? Sign up for our newsletter below and you'll be among the first to try our innovative Trippin' Gummies when they launch.
