Greetings from Egypt

[afahd]

Hi all,

First of all i'm very grateful for all the effort and time you guys give for this community and the building up of all this valuable information and knowledge that i was astounded with when i first found the nexus.I've been visiting the forum for years when i started my journey with psychedelics.Got interested first in psylocybin had a lot of fun with mushroom cultivation.Then DMT started calling it all started when i wake up one morning and went out with a good intention to help someone dear as i was walking past an "Albizia Julibrissin" and my eyes fell on it's beautiful flower and felt in "love" with it and then i started reasearching about plants and found out about Acacias and DMT.
Then i went to Sinai and met my lovely Acacia tortilis i was following a tyramine free diet and drinking "Peganum Harmala" for a couple of days before.It was a beautiful encounter as it was in full bloom in late summer i climbed up to it as the sun was coming up as i approached it saluted me with it's capturing fragrance that deeply carves itself in your conscience.I felt bewildered by this kind of communication as the fragrance the image and the sound of the scene was somehow coming from inside my mind.The disposition of this incidents happened without any intention or planning as i was taking Harmal for other purposes but it made me feel the presence of DMT in the air itself.I don't know if this is true or anything but that's what i felt.

I'm sorry for the long introduction just wanted to share my experience.Will wait till spring and try leave and unripe flowers extraction of acacia tortilis as i believe easter is the perfect timing for DMT concentrations in this plant.Don't wanna smoke spice unless i extracted it myself i'm in no hurry at all.

Anyone info about acacias in Egypt would be appreciated also

Thank you all.

 

[Intezam]

ahlan friend, one tree that we often think about is vachellia seyal (acacia seyyal) ....but we probably must take our shoes off when we approach the tree...? :thumb_up:

in various dialects and languages this tree has many different names and more trad. folk nmedicinal uses than many other local acacias...:? (...Sami, shami,samar,sammar, somar,samor,samra,sambra,sayyal,sant,sunt,seyal, seyyal, sheeta, shittah,shittim,"talha"...etc) Some of these names draw some parallels (by name association) with the Iraqi (mandaic) safta d'sambra, a liquid that may have also included harmal. Those names that are similar to safta d' sambra are from the Gulf coast, an area that is close to Iraq/Iran...formerly, Qarmatia..

...yet the stories of the tree's bark being used for skin problems has us wide awake :shock: (also by association)

 

[endlessness]

Welcome to the Nexus!

Check out this thread, you have in the index the "African & middle-eastern acacias" list. Hope you find what you're looking for

Be well

 

[afahd]

Thanks endlessness i've already seen this list and currently in the look for them in the wild.
ahlan Intezam...I read a lot of your posts and i like your work with phalaris :thumb_up: .I couldn't find Acacia seyal yet will keep a look out for it.

 

[thesoi6]

i hope youll find something, bc im also here in egypt (sinai) till now i saw some phalaris but not as much to make an extraction....so keep me up to date dude

 

[uz1l0v3r]

Always great to hear from free thinkers from all over the world.

 

[afahd]

Always great to hear from free thinkers from all over the world.

Great to hear from you

ahlan thesoi6 could you please post some pics of phalaris you found so we can ask for identification.And i will keep you updated for sure.

 

[thesoi6]

esayak ya afahd.

Ok ill do next time i go out and remember it .
i tried to send you a pm but seems im not able as new user...

 

[○]

A beautiful intro, really.

Very nice to have you here. Egypt though - that's amazing; one place I hope to visit at some point.

Once again, nice to have you.

 

[thesoi6]

Ok i just made some pics, hope the image are not to big, the first time i try to upload here pics so

the suspected Phalaris kinds...

well done?

i tried to post in some phalaris treats but by default i was not able bc of the restriction of new members...
so i have to wait


ps also from this article
The Egyptians Had Their Own Version Of Ayahuasca They Called “The Tree Of Life”
i find that the acacia in sinai known as the kundur. Sinai is replete with species of kundur and contain some sort of dmt

 

[afahd]

Tattvamasi thanks for the warm welcome.And yes be sure to visit Egypt it's really worth it lots of interesting things to do.

thesoi6 Ok the huge ones are Phragmites Australis.The rest i'm not sure of their names but most probably not phalaris.
Good work anyway at least i have someone who's interested here.We'll follow up with other candidates.

 

[afahd]

I think this is phalaris arundinacea not sure though.And sorry for the awful pic will take more clear ones to post in an identification thread.

 

[thesoi6]

Ok thank you for your info. sure here around are other kind of plants to discover in hope to find phalaris.

afahd do you have experiences with the acacias here?

 

[afahd]

I'm still researching and observing.Dont be confused by urban bipinnate trees we have in streets they're mostly Jacaranda,poinciana,albizia.I've seen Acacias in Sinai bipinnate like tortilis and some other with phyllodes you will find scattered in the desert.The promising ones are A.Albida and A.laeta i think are distributed along the river south or along the red sea near Gabal Elba area.That's my conclusions till now.
Will start working with tortilis as there is conflicting info about it i think it's a matter of seasonal variation in this tree in particular.
I hope someone with more experience can tell us wether seasonal variation can affect the concentration of alkaloid that much.

 

[thesoi6]

right i live here at the red sea, and near to the gebl are a lot of those acacias. especialy the shara to dahab..

should be nice if someone can give infos to the sinai acacias... right i think It is the acacia nilotica which in the local parlance should be that acacia known as the kundur. Sinai is replete with species of kundur. It is the same acacia from which the frankinscence/olibanum is taken.

so i suppose the right one

 

[afahd]

Yes Acacia nilotica is used for gum arabic.Olibanum is different i had that confusion also it is from boswelia.It's up to us to understand and work with the plants here.It won't be easy but it will be a revolutionary step in building a psychedelic community in Egypt which will surely have a positive effect on society as a whole.

 

[thesoi6]

yea is revolutionary! hope to work a bit together in some way

then here egyptian community.

EgyptianPsychedelicScene

how can i contact you? im not able to send here PM at the moment

 

[afahd]

Yes me too we'll have to wait till our accounts are activated.
i'll post on that Facebook page see you there .

 

[thesoi6]

perfect so from the last post i can find u ill have a look in few minutes

 

[thesoi6]

or write a private message to this group that you are afahd from nexus i find u then and answer u