Anyone have any experience w/ Calamus root?

[Dwhitty76]

A friend recently gave me a buch of Calamus root.

I did a little reseach on it and see that it has some health benefits.

I have grounded root and wanted to know the best way of injestion and use.

any feedback would be much appreciated.

 

[VisualDistortion]

I know if one was interested they could get TMA-2 from it. Kind of a psychedelic amphetamine. It's a phenylacetone like 2c-b and mdma.

 

[69ron]

Many years ago I tried many different batches of Calamus root using various different methods and it didn't do anything at all. The effects are apparently extremely weak and require you to really focus in on it in order to notice the effects. It’s not worth it. And if you take a large dose orally, it will make you vomit, and still hardly do anything at all.

It could just be that certain varieties of Calamus root are “psychoactive”, but I’ve never run across any.

 

[VisualDistortion]

Dear old Uncle Fester seemed to really like the stuff. That is, after he worked his magic on it.

 

[69ron]

You're talking about Uncle Fester making TMA-2 from it right?

 

[VisualDistortion]

Yeah, exactly. That was my first response, although I didn't mention Uncle Fester in that one.

 

[69ron]

Look at this from another forum

I read that a length of about 25cm and the diameter of a pencil is enough to experience the psychedelic fx. It has to be reasonably fresh calamus as the asarone breaks down within one year.

That may explain why I've never had any effects from it. The stuff available might have just been old.

 

[VisualDistortion]

Very possible. I'm willing to explore it. If Uncle Fester says it's good, it must be.

 

[69ron]

Another quote from another forum

I didn't get high.
I did vomit every 5 minutes all night long though.

I had a big pitcher of lemonade next to my bed because its easier on your stomach muscles to actually have something to expel. By the end of the night I drank down the lemonade, puked it into the pitcher and drank it again, over and over, unable to get fresh fluids.
I've never been so sick in my entire life, and it took ten years before I could smell Calamus again without gagging.

That's about the experience I had from it. I didn't vomit that badly though.

 

[Dwhitty76]

I know if one was interested they could get TMA-2 from it. Kind of a psychedelic amphetamine. It's a phenylacetone like 2c-b and mdma.

interesting, i didn't know that.

Mainly what i've been reading is just that it does have some health benefits but also mild psychoative.

I wonder if there is any info out there on extraction method to obtain TMA-2.

 

[reflexion]

there is an acorus gramnius(sp) 5x extract that i've read good things about... might be worth looking into

 

[soulfood]

I know if one was interested they could get TMA-2 from it. Kind of a psychedelic amphetamine. It's a phenylacetone like 2c-b and mdma.

interesting, i didn't know that.

Mainly what I've been reading is just that it does have some health benefits but also mild psychoative.

I wonder if there is any info out there on extraction method to obtain TMA-2.

My understanding is that there's a precursor to TMA-2 That can be extracted from one american type of calamus. From then on you'd be doing a synth rather than an extraction and I believe it's fairly long winded. At my level of knowledge of chemistry and lack of equipment I wouldn't bother, but if someone had the skills and the tools, google may yield some good information for going down that road.