Energy Supplements, Herbs, Teas & Capsules

We carry a good spread of products on this shelf, and they group into a handful of clear families. Caffeine and guarana (Paullinia cupana) sit next to yerba mate, kola nut (Cola nitida), and guayusa (Ilex guayusa). Roots, resins, and powders cover ginseng (Panax ginseng), maca, rhodiola, shilajit, spirulina, and ginkgo biloba. Then there are the single-ingredient supplements, acetyl-L-carnitine, magnesium citrate, a vitamin B complex, active B12, iron with vitamin C, and Q10, plus cordyceps and Power 5 mushroom capsules and tincture, Lion's Mane gummies, forest-berry gummies, and branded lines from Cibdol and Mindscopic. The rest of the Zamnesia healthshop carries the same ingredients in other formats if nothing here fits.

Kettle, Capsule or Chew: Three Ways to Get It Down

Loose Teas and Sealed Teabags

Three of our own teas come as loose leaf in airtight, aroma-sealed packaging. Energiser Tea is cocoa beans, guarana seed, basil, ginger root, rosemary, kola nut, and ginseng root, and it smells of cocoa and ginger the second you open the pouch. Good Morning Herbs Tea is lemongrass, hibiscus blossom, spearmint, and liquorice root, and the label carries a real caveat: it contains liquorice and isn't recommended in high doses for people with high blood pressure. Fresh & Fitness Tea leans citrus and berry with verbena, melissa, lemon peel, strawberry leaves, lemongrass, carrot, and marigold blossom. Two more teas come from Jetpackkratom as sealed 4g teabags, five to a pack: the Chai Tea (black tea with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, black pepper, cardamom, rose petals, and liquorice root, 65mg of mitragynine per bag) and the Ceylon Tea (black Ceylon tea, rose petals, mitragynine, same 65mg per bag). Watch out for the obvious: loose tea needs a strainer or a filter, so if all you own is a mug, look at the next group.

Capsules, Gummies and Tinctures

Natural Party Capsules by Zamnesia are the most-searched item on this shelf. Four vegan HPMC capsules per pack, and per daily dose the label lists guarana extract 100mg (16% natural caffeine), cacao extract 100mg (10% theobromine), mate tea extract 40mg (8% caffeine), green tea extract 200mg (95% polyphenols, 90mg EGCG), natural caffeine from coffee beans 70mg, cayenne pepper extract 20mg, ginger root extract 15mg, and L-Tyrosine 45mg, plus vitamins B1 (1.1mg), B5 (6.0mg), B6 (1.4mg), and B12 (2.5mcg) at 100% of the reference intake each. The label also says to take 1 to 2 capsules with water, not on an empty stomach, and not to combine them with other green tea products the same day. Four capsules per pack goes quickly, so it's a small buy rather than a monthly one. Lion's Mane Gummies are the softer option: 60 vegan gummies, 30 daily servings of two, 400mg of Hericium erinaceus 10:1 extract per serving, raspberry flavoured, and under 0.015g of sugars per gummy. If you'd rather not taste anything at all, the Lion's Mane Mushroom Capsules hold the same extract, and MycoFive Mushroom Capsules put five species in one capsule instead of one.

The Plants Behind the Labels, From Guarana Seed to Shilajit

Kola nut comes from two near-identical West African trees, the small cola (Cola acuminata, 4 to 6-part nut) and the large cola (C. nitida, 2-part nut). Caffeine was identified in the kola nut in 1865, theobromine later, the same compound found in chocolate. The bitter red and white seeds are eaten fresh, stored in water, or sun-dried, and they're used for extracts, tinctures, and wine extracts; nuts are handed to guests and exchanged after business meetings, chewed communally in Ghana, and used in Santeria and candomble in South America. Ginseng arrives as 25 grams of dried Panax ginseng root, native to the Korean peninsula, rich in ginsenosides, with written references going back over 2,000 years. Maca comes from the Andes and arrives as capsules. Yerba mate and guayusa (Ilex guayusa) are leaves, rhodiola and shilajit are extracts, and spirulina and ginkgo biloba round out the plant side.

What the Label Tells You Before You Open the Pack

Caffeine figures on this page belong to the individual product that prints them, not to the shelf as a whole, so read the pack you're holding rather than assuming. Across the supplements here the standing label notes are the same: store cool, dry, and dark, keep them out of reach of children, and don't use them as a substitute for a varied diet and a healthy lifestyle. Not suitable during pregnancy or breastfeeding, or for anyone under 18. Opened gummies want finishing inside three months, which is worth knowing before you buy two jars. If you already own a strainer, start with the loose Energiser Tea; if your kitchen is a kettle and nothing else, the four-capsule pack of Natural Party Capsules is the shorter route.