✦ Entada Rheedii — African Dream Bean · in one breath ✦
One of the most powerful dream intensifiers there is — a long companionship that tames itself.
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Dream · 3 April 2021
these things give GREAT dreams! I loved it! it's kind of hit or miss tho. sometimes i get what I want, other times nothing at all. I ordered the whole seeds tho so I can carry one as a talisman!
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Dream · 6 April 2022
I haven't been able to enter a lucid dream state yet but I have gotten some of the best sleeps I've ever gotten. the resin is easiest way to consume, I tried all the options offered. I might not be consuming enough at night, can't find any suggestions for dosing online.
Kyle
Dream · 7 December 2021
Very nice to relax with a book before sleep, I use the extract (0.5 to 1g) as a tea with passiflora (nice taste). No noticeable effect on my dreams, though. My sleep may be better as I sleep a lot (usually > 8h), and with this tea I sometimes sleep about 1h less.
Michael Robertson
Dream · 2 November 2023
Nice in a tea before sleep, I like the relaxing effect, no noticeable impact on dreams though (extract 100x).
Michael Robertson
Dream · 24 August 2023
Amazing quality. Phenomenal dreams. Dream divination beyond my wildest dreams. Thank you so much.
Elona
Dream · 14 November 2021
perfect I can remember multiple dreams very vividly, because of this I was able to receive a lot of messages and will try harder in life.
Samonyai
Dream · 23 February 2021
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Dream · 24 November 2022
The extract works exactly as promised. I tried a small pinch of it and it worked! Thank you very much!
Kiruna
Dream · 8 August 2024
Beautiful beans/seeds. Will keep them around for a while as talismans. The energy is so good and I will know when or if it is to be consumed. Thank you for great service, good medicine and the gift!
Nadja
Dream · 24 November 2023
Another wonderful product. Find it helps me sleep.
Val
Dream · 9 October 2023
These people really know how to source great quality resin. Soft and pliable without being sticky. The beans I bought from them at the same time are huge and you can really understand why people sometimes make them into trinket boxes. Can't honestly say that my dreams are any more vivid than usual but I certainly get better sleep when I use the resin. If you smoke this would be very easy to roll into strands and mix with your favourite herb. Not quite sure yet whether I'll use the beans as anything other than a very attractive and unusual ornament - much bigger than your average conker and look very striking!
Tricia
Dream · 16 January 2023
Ask the Forest about Entada Rheedii — African Dream Bean
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⊹ FREQUENT QUESTIONS ⊹
We answer.
What is the African Dream Bean (Entada rheedii)?
Entada rheedii, called the African dream bean, is the large brown bean of a giant liana of the Fabaceae family. Her shell is so watertight that she can drift for years at sea before germinating on another shore: this is how she reached the tropical coasts of the world. In isiZulu she is called umbhone. INFUSE offers her as a whole seed and as a resin paste.
Is the Entada seed a lucky charm?
That is how many people keep her: whole, in a pocket, by the bed or under the pillow, filled with their prayers and intentions. Some never open her. The written sources we have read tie her to dreaming: a pipe made from the seed, and dream recall among South African diviners (Sobiecki 2008).
How is the African dream bean used?
First carry her for a few weeks, then break the shell with a mallet. The inner flesh is taken in small portions chewed in the evening, as a brief strained infusion, or as a powder sprinkled on a smoking blend, over 3 to 7 nights in a row. The resin paste dissolves in a warm drink, a piece the size of a grain of rice.
Whole seed or resin paste of Entada rheedii?
The whole seed, to carry, to charge with intention and to open when the moment comes. The resin paste, for ease: a concentrate made with pure water only, soaked, boiled and filtered again and again until the water has evaporated; a small piece dissolves in a warm drink or under the tongue.
Can the African dream bean be eaten raw?
No: raw, the seed is toxic, rich in irritating saponins. Only the inner flesh is prepared, in a small portion, after breaking the shell; a brief infusion, then strained, is the gentlest way. The flesh is frankly bitter. Start with very little.
Does the African dream bean give lucid dreams?
Sometimes: one of our 11 dreamers who tell of a night speaks of real lucid dreams, others of more vivid dreams, and several of better sleep with no change in their dreams. The old sources speak of vivid dreams and dream recall; dreaming has yet to be studied.
Why carry the seed before opening it?
It is the gesture we pass on: carry the seed for a few weeks, to fill it with your energy, prayers and intentions, before opening it. It sets up a relationship with her, and it is why we sell her whole.
Is Entada rheedii an ubulawu?
The sources do not class her among the ubulawu, the roots that diviners churn into foam. They list her among the dream plants of South African diviners: the seed for remembering dreams, the pipe made from the seed (Sobiecki 2008).
Is the Entada seed legal?
Freely sold in France and the European Union.
Where does INFUSE's African dream bean come from?
Our seeds are wild-harvested in Thailand, where the same liana grows in coastal forests and mangroves. It is the same species as in southern Africa: the currents carried her from shore to shore.
What precautions with Entada rheedii?
Avoid during pregnancy and breastfeeding (insufficient data) and in children. Never the raw seed, nor in large amounts (saponins). Take care with a legume allergy. Ask your doctor if you take medication, especially sedatives, opioids or antidepressants. Avoid driving after use. Go gently if you combine her with other dream plants.
What do people who tried the seed say?
Of 122 reviews published on INFUSE, 11 tell of a night: 6 better sleep, 5 more vivid dreams, 2 meaningful dreams, 1 a lucid dream, 1 better recall, 4 nothing in their dreams. Samonyai: 'I can remember multiple dreams very vividly'. Another: 'it's kind of hit or miss tho'.
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In depthbotany · phytochemistry · history
For those who want to go below the page: botany, chemistry, then four voices, each one named. ◆ what the tradition left in writing, ◇ what research has measured, ● what our dreamers tell us, ☾ what the House says.
The vine, the pod, the seed
Entada rheedii, spelt Entada rheedei Spreng. in the botanical databases (POWO, GBIF), is a giant woody liana of the Fabaceae, the legume family. Her stems run for dozens of metres through the canopy, and her pods are among the largest in the whole family: up to about two metres long, jointed, breaking into sections when ripe. Each section frees a round, flattened bean, four to six centimetres wide, dark brown and smooth, with a remarkably hard shell. Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling, in the Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs, class the Entada seeds among the "elephant beans".
Entada rheedii is a different species from Entada africana: several uses loosely credited to "the African Entada", roots drunk as a tonic or the bean carried as a worry bead in Ghana, belong to E. africana, according to Rätsch (p. 107). We keep to what is documented for rheedii.
A seed that travels by sea
The biological signature of Entada rheedii is ocean dispersal, what botanists call thalassochory. The shell is so tight and so tough that a bean can drift in salt water for months, even years, before it washes up on a distant shore and germinates. Following the currents, the same plant reached the tropical coasts of Africa and Madagascar, of South and Southeast Asia, and of Australasia, long before human voyages. In English she is still called the snuff-box sea bean: hollowed out, the hard seed once served as a snuffbox.
Phytochemistry
The seed is rich in triterpene saponins (rheedeiosides A and B), which is why it has long been used as a soap. It also holds thioamides (entadamides A and C) and phenolic compounds. Raw, the seed is toxic; where it is eaten as food, it is first cooked and leached. In the laboratory, a seed extract caused no deaths in rats at single doses up to 4 g/kg.
◆ The documented tradition
"African dream bean" is a trade name. In isiZulu the plant is called umbhone or intindili (Sobiecki 2002; 2008). The written record of her link with dreaming is slender and precious: three mentions, gathered by the ethnobotanist Jean-François Sobiecki in his inventory of the divination plants of southern Africa.
- Tobacco smoked in a pipe made from the seed was said to bring vivid dreams (Van Wyk & Gericke 2000, People's Plants, cited by Sobiecki 2008, p. 343).
- Diviners in South Africa use the seed to remember their dreams: C.J. Manana wrote it as early as 1968 (Umongo Wolwazi. African Medical Herbs, Durban, cited by Sobiecki 2002), and C. Mudumo confirmed it to Sobiecki (personal communication, 2008).
So the source ties the dream first to the seed as a vessel, the pipe, and then to the memory of the dream. The lucid and spectacular dreams people report today come from living practice: ours, and that of the dreamers who write to us.
◇ The studies
Dreaming has yet to be studied: no molecule responsible for an effect on dreaming has been isolated, and the mechanism, if there is one, is unknown. Published work covers the chemistry of the seed (entadamides, rheedeiosides) and its acute toxicity in rats (Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science, 2018). We prefer to say so plainly.
● Our dreamers
Of 122 reviews published on INFUSE, 11 tell of a night (read one by one in September 2026; a review can say several things): 6 speak of better sleep, 5 of more vivid dreams, 2 of meaningful dreams, 1 of a lucid dream, 1 of better recall, and 4 noticed nothing in their dreams. Sleep often comes before the dream.
"perfect I can remember multiple dreams very vividly, because of this I was able to receive a lot of messages" — Samonyai
"these things give GREAT dreams! I loved it! it's kind of hit or miss tho. sometimes i get what I want, other times nothing at all." — a dreamer
"No noticeable effect on my dreams, though." — Michael
☾ The House
Our own words, from the first page: "The Dream Seed brings lucidity and intensity in the dream world, often offering spectacular dreams and initiations for the Soul." And the gesture we pass on: "To unlock its power, this magical bean is to be carried with you for a few weeks to fill it up with your energy, prayers, and intentions. You can also sleep with it, keep it next to you or under your pillow." When the moment comes, break the shell; the flesh can be eaten, drunk or smoked, over 3 to 7 nights in a row. Many keep it whole, as a talisman.
Respect for the lineage
We name the tradition by its peoples and its function, and leave its sacred vocabulary (ritual names, ancestral names, ceremonial objects) to the communities it belongs to.
Safety and legal status
The whole raw seed is not to be eaten: its saponins make it irritating, even toxic in quantity. Only the inner flesh is prepared, in a small portion, ideally as a filtered infusion. Avoid Entada during pregnancy and breastfeeding (insufficient data) and in children. Take care if you are allergic to legumes (Fabaceae). As the plant touches sleep, avoid driving after use, and ask a doctor if you take medication, especially sedatives, opioids or antidepressants. As with every dream plant: short cycles, gently, and with care if you combine her with other dream herbs.
Freely sold in France and the European Union.
Sources: Sobiecki J.F. 2002, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 57:1-24 (p. 10) · Sobiecki J.F. 2008, Southern African Humanities 20:333-351 (p. 343) · Van Wyk B.-E. & Gericke N. 2000, People's Plants · Manana C.J. 1968, Umongo Wolwazi. African Medical Herbs (Durban) · Rätsch C. & Müller-Ebeling C., Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs (p. 107) · phytochemistry: Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science (2018). Reviews: INFUSE database, September 2026.