Acorus calamus overdose

[69ron]

In another thread it was bought up that possibly gamma-asarone is the main hallucinogenic component of calamus. I thought this information should go in this thread as it’s more appropriate here.

In calamus we have alpha-asarone, beta-asarone, and gamma-asarone. Typically beta-asarone is the main oil present at up to 75% of the essential oil. Gamma-asarone is present in very small amounts, like 3.20%, with alpha-asarone being about 1.32%. So gamma-asarone is a very minor player in the oil in most calamus. However, look at this:

The Czech accessions had a similar essential oil content and composition as the Finnish and Slovenian origin ones. The average essential oil content of 1.91% (1.20% – 2.92%) is slightly higher than in Finland, but anyway 14 from 24 analysed samples did not execute the norm defined for quality of Radix calami (minimum 2% of essential oil) by Czech Pharmaceutical Codex. The main components of the essential oils were beta- and gamma- asarones. The average content of gamma-asarone was 18.65% (12.52 – 25.35%) and that of the beta-asarone was 16.11% (11.34 – 21.30%)

So there do exist strains of Calamus in Czech that are high in gamma-asarone. You may want to look into those. Perhaps those are the ones that are the most hallucinogenic and least nauseating. I know for a fact some people get hallucinogenic effects from Calamus. It’s often said that only certain strains are active, and they must be fresh. So maybe gamma-asarone is the main hallucinogen, and it is not stable, so fresh material is needed.

Now if gamma-asarone absorbs well sublingually, and alpha-asarone and beta-asarone do not, then maybe that’s a good way to get the positive effects from it while avoiding the nauseating effects of ha-asarone and beta-asarone.

Definitely more work needs to be done on this.

 

[Rifle]

Whoa, what great info this thread has. I've been on a mission to find Acorus americanus for like a year. I'm at the edge of it's range, so I haven't successfully located any, but with the extraction tek here I may just take a chance on an online vendor.

I became interested in it because I have a couple friends that took it and experienced the low-level LSD type experience without much nausea. They did it with freshly harvested rhizome.

I still hope to find some to transplant though. I also found a couple promising leads on the internet as to where some might be growing near me. Quite a successful week as far as calamus info gathering goes.