tregar said:
Would not recommend dissolving the freebase rue extract into orange juice
I'm not familiar with the "additional effects" you describe with OJ. I did notice that gel caps can cause unreliable timing of the harmala digestion. For me a drink is more dependable. I get strongest and most reliable effects from a drink that has both dmt and harmalas dissolved together, similar to classic ayahuasca.
To dissolve freebase alkaloids with minimal added loading, you could put the weighed amounts of alkaloids into a glass, add a little bit of hot water and then add aa few drops of vinegar. Stir for a minute and if there is still a lot of undissolved matter, add a few more drops and stir again.
20 standard drops equals 1 milliliter;
1 ml vinegar of 5% acetic acid concentration equals 0.05 ml of acetic acid;
0.05 ml acetic acid weighs almost 0.05 grams or 50 milligrams;
1 mole of acetic acid weighs about 60 grams, 50 milligrams contains 0.83 millimole acetic acid;
1 mole of harmine weighs about 212 grams, 0.83 millimole has about 177 milligrams;
So that 20 drops of vinegar will salt and dissolve 177 milligrams of rue extract freebase, or 1 drop for every 8.8 milligrams of freebase.
tregar said:
Although 150mg of harmine will work for activation, prefer 170 to 180mg of harmine
Some say that more is even better.
tregar said:
In the first link, chart on page 2, typical brew amount was 100ml, so looking at the chart, many of the "best entries" contained 180mg of harmine and about 180mg of thh found during analysis of the Caapi which was brewed for a long time by the leaders of the Vegetals (Shuar, UDV, Santo Daime, etc.)
Many of the least best entries contain almost no THH. Caapi vine and/or brew does not always contain spectacular amounts of THH.
Anyway, IMHO the THH issue is somewhat off-topic for the OP's question.
To respond to the original inquiry: From the reports that I have read here on the nexus forum and from what have personally noticed it seems that the particulars of individual's metabolism play an important role. The uptake, efficacy and metabolism of harmala alkaloids and its effects in the body on other alkaloids depends on many more factors than simply body weight.
Nevertheless I would like to encourage every forum member to experiment with:
- varying amounts of harmala alkaloids and dmt;
- delay between ingestion of harmalas and dmt;
- forms of ingestion, like gelcapped ground plant, filtered tea or purified extract;
- entire dose at once or at spaced intervals.
It would be great to have more data points. Please experiment with various combinations so that we can build up a more complete knowledge base for pharmahuasca use.
Personally, I have found 250 mg or more of harmalas and 50-75 mg dmt, taken together in the form of extracts to work best for me, and that dividing and spacing the doses gives a longer during and more manageable plateau instead of a wild rollercoaster peak.
