Caapi tea help

[makrosky]

Dear users,

Hello to everybody! I am new to the forum. I’ve taken ayahuasca many times in the last 3-4 years. Not by myself but in a group setting with a Shaman (a Western one). Good experiences so far. I love the plant and it’s teachings. Life changing, that’s for sure. However I don’t have the energy/mood to do it again anytime soon. I would prefer to do it more gently since I have a very low mood right now. I thought about Caapi tea. I know this topic has been debated before but please help me because I don’t really get it. Some people talk about 5 grams. Other people talk about 50-100 grams. Others talk about the leafs. Others the vine. Others the extract. I’m a quite lost right now. I would like the antidepressant effects. Not anything very strong but enough strong to really notice it. I have experience tripping with ayahuasca so it doesn’t scare me although I’m always reverential and respectful to it’s power.

What I do have right now:
25 grs of fine shredded (not powdered) vine. I guess it’s the vine ? It’s light brown color and does look like a bark. It certainly doesn’t look like powdered leaf or something else.

How do I prepare a healing tea with this ? Please give me some advice. How many grams, how long to boil (lemon or not) and how often should I take it. I would love a simple method.

Many thanks in advance.

All the best,
Marcus

 

[starway6]

one last atempt for an opinion ...


Can caapi..[leafe or vine].. be boiled filtered then boiled down to a paste then dryed into a storable powder for later use?

Would it maintain its potency in a dryed powder form apearing much like instant coffie?

 

[Jees]

...Would it maintain its potency in a dryed powder form apearing much like instant coffie?

My opinion, yes is okay for potency. I did that with mimosa tea few times, but the powder took soon air humidity to become rubber-ish, loosing dryness again.
For storage you can just flip some reduced aya portions in the freezer, looks easier.
For making "unreduced tea" later you can simply dilute with water and the gnarly taste of the concentrated aya will become good again like initial unreduced tea.

Boiling time can be really reduced by making wood finer. Fine powdered aya vine saves a huge amount of boiling time.

On regular base I drop some like 5 gr of raw powdered vine in a cup and gulp it down. No boiling time at all, and no bad taste either. Stomach makes for a fine extraction machine. Max 10 gr this way, as the powder then begins to become heavy on the transit.

...Personally I would say do the tao of rue extraction found in the WIKI and go with 30mg sublingual harmala extract. For what you are seeking it sound like what I found to work for me....

My idea as well, I've a pot with capsules 50mg rueHCL ready to ingest for that purpose.

 

[starway6]

...Would it maintain its potency in a dryed powder form apearing much like instant coffie?

My opinion, yes is okay for potency. I did that with mimosa tea few times, but the powder took soon air humidity to become rubber-ish, loosing dryness again.
For storage you can just flip some reduced aya portions in the freezer, looks easier.
For making "unreduced tea" later you can simply dilute with water and the gnarly taste of the concentrated aya will become good again like initial unreduced tea.

Boiling time can be really reduced by making wood finer. Fine powdered aya vine saves a huge amount of boiling time.

On regular base I drop some like 5 gr of raw powdered vine in a cup and gulp it down. No boiling time at all, and no bad taste either. Stomach makes for a fine extraction machine. Max 10 gr this way, as the powder then begins to become heavy on the transit.

...Personally I would say do the tao of rue extraction found in the WIKI and go with 30mg sublingual harmala extract. For what you are seeking it sound like what I found to work for me....

My idea as well, I've a pot with capsules 50mg rueHCL ready to ingest for that purpose.

Thank you!
I think an air tight jar should keep the cappi powder dry! :thumb_up: