Samadhi-Sukha-Upekkha
Rising Star
For some odd reason, my friend had a really bad experience with his first pharmahuasca use. He took 100mg of Caapi Copy thoroughly dissolved in orange juice, then ten minutes later took 100mg of Caapi Copy and 90 mg of spice in more orange juice. The total amount of orange juice consumed was about a cup (or 250 mL).
His stomach was neither particularly empty nor particularly full. He reported nausea within minutes of taking the half-cup of orange juice that had the spice in it. Somehow, this messed his stomach up for days! The trip itself was rather miserable -- no hyperspace, but an excessive amount of tryptamine anxiety and RIMA head-fog that was probably made worse by the fact that he LOCKED HIS SITTER OUT OF THE ROOM during a bathroom break. That caused him to be unaccompanied during the 2-3 hours of strongest effects. He says he was glad that nobody saw him in the condition he was in, but really, he probably wouldn't have been in such bad shape if a sober person had been there to help him out.
However, the intense negativity of the trip isn't the subject of this post. The trip is already over, and measures are in place to prevent and effectively deal with future bad trips. What I'm asking about is how he can deal with the nausea problem. His friend (Demetrius, the same one that he shared the turmeric extract with a few weeks ago) used the exact same dose and administration method for pharmahuasca at the same time, yet only had mild effects and about 10 minutes of mild nausea. Go figure.
Anyway, my friend said he kept wanting to throw up into his trashcan to make the nausea feel better, but he couldn't remember how to make himself throw up and the nausea was just under the threshold for vomiting to occur automatically. In fact, his stomach felt bad all of the next day, and most of the day after that. He managed the nausea pretty well by making lots and lots of ginger tea, which is a very effective anti-nausea agent.
Now, if it were me, I would just stay away from pharmahuasca and put the Caapi Copy together with the spice into some changa. Seems like a vastly more efficient use of the Caapi Copy anyway. But I'm not the one who uses schedule I substances, so whatever. He doesn't want to give up on pharmahuasca. What can he do, aside from pre-dosing with copious amounts of ginger tea, to deal with the nausea? Should he make himself throw up if there's nausea that won't go away? Or is there something else he can do to avoid the nausea in the first place? None of us ever thought that nausea would even be an issue for Caapi Copy and spice dissolved in orange juice!
His stomach was neither particularly empty nor particularly full. He reported nausea within minutes of taking the half-cup of orange juice that had the spice in it. Somehow, this messed his stomach up for days! The trip itself was rather miserable -- no hyperspace, but an excessive amount of tryptamine anxiety and RIMA head-fog that was probably made worse by the fact that he LOCKED HIS SITTER OUT OF THE ROOM during a bathroom break. That caused him to be unaccompanied during the 2-3 hours of strongest effects. He says he was glad that nobody saw him in the condition he was in, but really, he probably wouldn't have been in such bad shape if a sober person had been there to help him out.
However, the intense negativity of the trip isn't the subject of this post. The trip is already over, and measures are in place to prevent and effectively deal with future bad trips. What I'm asking about is how he can deal with the nausea problem. His friend (Demetrius, the same one that he shared the turmeric extract with a few weeks ago) used the exact same dose and administration method for pharmahuasca at the same time, yet only had mild effects and about 10 minutes of mild nausea. Go figure.
Anyway, my friend said he kept wanting to throw up into his trashcan to make the nausea feel better, but he couldn't remember how to make himself throw up and the nausea was just under the threshold for vomiting to occur automatically. In fact, his stomach felt bad all of the next day, and most of the day after that. He managed the nausea pretty well by making lots and lots of ginger tea, which is a very effective anti-nausea agent.
Now, if it were me, I would just stay away from pharmahuasca and put the Caapi Copy together with the spice into some changa. Seems like a vastly more efficient use of the Caapi Copy anyway. But I'm not the one who uses schedule I substances, so whatever. He doesn't want to give up on pharmahuasca. What can he do, aside from pre-dosing with copious amounts of ginger tea, to deal with the nausea? Should he make himself throw up if there's nausea that won't go away? Or is there something else he can do to avoid the nausea in the first place? None of us ever thought that nausea would even be an issue for Caapi Copy and spice dissolved in orange juice!