Breakthrough on taste

[BundleflowerPower]

A couple of weeks ago, I was out in the country, at the house of a couple I'm friends with. I had all the stuff with me to create an amazing brew. We used caapi, rue, chali, acacia, lavender, two bay leaves, basically all herbs growing around their house as additives. We decided to take a ride to the swamp and get some firewood to brew it over a fire. Once we got back, we lit the fire, and we brewed the medicine for the second half of the day and then I slept outside on the ground to tend the brew. Anyway, when we first started cooking it, I asked him if had lemon juice. He said no, but he had a lemon. If you've ever been to Louisiana and ate at a crab or crawfish boil, you've probably seen whole lemons cut in half and brewed with the seafood. So my friend suggested we do that, I was like well I never heard of that but let's do it. The lemon completely transformed the smell and taste of the medicine. It was much easier to swallow and stomach, although if you're into the purge it won't stop that. It smelled quite a lot like zatarans crab boil actually. Btw the brew tasted of fire as well, and I could feel the elemental energy of fire as I brewed it and after I consumed it.

Then the day before yesterday I created a brew with 6 g of rue and 7 g of chaliponga per dose, with one caapi leaf and 7 chacruna leaves, along with a small amount of elder flowers, lavender, white willow bark, hydranea root, hawthorn and a small amount of tobacco. Btw all of these additives are plants which have called out to me to work with in one way or another. This time I used an orange rather than a lemon. The taste wasn't changed quite as much as the lemon, but the brew was one of the most amazing experiences I've had. Citrus contains acid in the skin as well, as does an excellent job extracting alkaloids.

So I felt like passing this along to you guys do you can try and tell me what you think of this.

 

[FiniteFox]

I think that's really cool. I'm not if there is enough citrus oil to be medical, but the aroma probably primes the brain nicely.

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Using herbs from the surrounding garden is exactly the right idea (assuming you know what they are and all the usual caveats)! And speaking of citrus fruits, I've used limes in a cactus brew to good effect, too.

Cooking outdoors over a wood fire also adds a certain something. Now, if you could set up a small stone circle around your brewing fire you'd have it on the nail!