Animistic
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I've just harvested about 1kg of fresh chacruna leaves from a Psychotria 'Nexus' hybrid. I'm reading that fresh and dried aren't much different for the weight you need, for example here: Aya homebrew Caapi/Viridis
This raises a question for me. Fresh chacruna weighs roughly 4x more than dried, surely the DMT doesn't break down in the drying process and so what accounts for such a drastic change? Is the some kind of other chemical in the chacruna which potentiates the medicine?
It makes me think about what I've heard about not boiling chacruna too strongly because it loses potency. DMT is certainly not broken down at a boiling temperatures or it would be a problem across all sources. So could the component which makes the difference between fresh and dried in terms of potency be quite volatile? Whereas vine on the other hand you can boil it as hard as you want, shy of burning it of course.
I'm curious anyone's thoughts on this..
Thanks!
This raises a question for me. Fresh chacruna weighs roughly 4x more than dried, surely the DMT doesn't break down in the drying process and so what accounts for such a drastic change? Is the some kind of other chemical in the chacruna which potentiates the medicine?
It makes me think about what I've heard about not boiling chacruna too strongly because it loses potency. DMT is certainly not broken down at a boiling temperatures or it would be a problem across all sources. So could the component which makes the difference between fresh and dried in terms of potency be quite volatile? Whereas vine on the other hand you can boil it as hard as you want, shy of burning it of course.
I'm curious anyone's thoughts on this..
Thanks!