So my friend's dog has been suffering from pretty severe depression for more than a decade, pretty much all of his relevant life. As of late he has been seriously contemplating suicide until he saw a documentary on ayahuasca. He wanted to see if he could communicate with God or his inner soul to find some answers.
First attempt, he had bought caapi vine (red and black) and chacruna. Due to fear and extenuating circumstances he wasn't able to get around to brewing until four months later. Started off with a basic recipe with 1 tbsp of vinegar per liter, brewing red caapi separately from charcuna with tons of RO water. Did three washes, then reduced. He used extra chacruna, about 100 g, for fear that it wasn't potent enough. The chacruna smelt awfully like green tea so he was suspicious that he got a fake batch. My friend's dog had spent all week trying to adhere to the strict diet and spent a full day and a half after work brewing and 24 hours fasting, so he was sleep deprived, tired and weak.
Drank the caapi brew first and the tannins and sediment were absolutely awful. Way too much vinegar. Vomited barely after 10 minutes. Tried to drink the chacruna brew but only drank half, was too awful tasting. Threw up again, spent the next hour or two feeling sick and trying to wait for the dream or visions but got nothing fell asleep.
My friend's dog tried it again the next day with his leftover chacruna (another 100 g) and black caapi but this time after concentrating it, he used a few dashes of baking soda to neutralize the vinegar. This experience was better as the brew didn't taste as horrible but still only managed to keep down the caapi brew for 20-30 minutes. Did not feel anything except wooziness, nothing interesting that should be expected from a purge. Was able to keep down the chacruna brew completely this time, but again felt nothing except maybe a little sickness.
My friend's dog came into that experience with the best of intentions and the highest of expectations and came out disappointed and extremely hopeless. It was if God did not want him to live, and was denying him the answers he was looking for. Except he didn't give up hope and tried it again this weekend. He assumed it didn't work last time because either he got a bad batch of ingredients, it became stale, or he stored it improperly.
He bought a whole new batch of fresh high quality ingredients, used phosphoric acid this time and tried out the hummingbird tek. He only dieted for a couple days and fasted for 24 hours. Used cielo caapi but accidentally slightly burned the brew when reducing. Added about an extra 1.5 ml of caapi liquid extract to brew just in case. Caapi brew was ten times easier to drink and didn't even vomit for the first 15 minutes. Consumed some yucca to help bring on digestion. Was not sure if this was due to sleep deprivation or the effects of fasting but he immediately felt something, especially when he was lying down on his back. Felt slightly dissociated, sleepy, and brain become sensitive to sounds and light. Drank the chacruna which was as horrible as he remembered and was able to keep it down for 30 minutes before overwhelming nausea took over. The experience reminded him of when he was sick in bed with a high fever and was delirious. Finally was not able to keep it down and purged, and the feeling was intense. He felt a prickly sensation over his entire body like when your foot falls asleep. Standing up, the world was spinning and could not walk straight. He felt sort of normal when sitting up hunching over but as soon as he laid down on his back he felt as if he was drunk and stoned at the same time. Was drifting in and out of sleep and the stage consciousness that was between it. Again, could not tell if this was due to sleep deprivation.
Did not see any visions, and did not get any answers but felt enormously relaxed, buzzed, but slightly sad. Had the best sleep he had in months and felt refreshed but still did not feel has if he had the full experience. Felt like it gave him the relaxation and high that weed was supposed to give him but couldn't (weed makes him extremely paranoid, depressed, and tired). He wants to know if he is doing anything wrong or if he is just getting a weak caapi/chacruna batch. He will try again (in the end he will escalate to the legendary Hawaiian chacruna) but still is waiting for the life-changing experience and understanding that aya has to offer.
First attempt, he had bought caapi vine (red and black) and chacruna. Due to fear and extenuating circumstances he wasn't able to get around to brewing until four months later. Started off with a basic recipe with 1 tbsp of vinegar per liter, brewing red caapi separately from charcuna with tons of RO water. Did three washes, then reduced. He used extra chacruna, about 100 g, for fear that it wasn't potent enough. The chacruna smelt awfully like green tea so he was suspicious that he got a fake batch. My friend's dog had spent all week trying to adhere to the strict diet and spent a full day and a half after work brewing and 24 hours fasting, so he was sleep deprived, tired and weak.
Drank the caapi brew first and the tannins and sediment were absolutely awful. Way too much vinegar. Vomited barely after 10 minutes. Tried to drink the chacruna brew but only drank half, was too awful tasting. Threw up again, spent the next hour or two feeling sick and trying to wait for the dream or visions but got nothing fell asleep.
My friend's dog tried it again the next day with his leftover chacruna (another 100 g) and black caapi but this time after concentrating it, he used a few dashes of baking soda to neutralize the vinegar. This experience was better as the brew didn't taste as horrible but still only managed to keep down the caapi brew for 20-30 minutes. Did not feel anything except wooziness, nothing interesting that should be expected from a purge. Was able to keep down the chacruna brew completely this time, but again felt nothing except maybe a little sickness.
My friend's dog came into that experience with the best of intentions and the highest of expectations and came out disappointed and extremely hopeless. It was if God did not want him to live, and was denying him the answers he was looking for. Except he didn't give up hope and tried it again this weekend. He assumed it didn't work last time because either he got a bad batch of ingredients, it became stale, or he stored it improperly.
He bought a whole new batch of fresh high quality ingredients, used phosphoric acid this time and tried out the hummingbird tek. He only dieted for a couple days and fasted for 24 hours. Used cielo caapi but accidentally slightly burned the brew when reducing. Added about an extra 1.5 ml of caapi liquid extract to brew just in case. Caapi brew was ten times easier to drink and didn't even vomit for the first 15 minutes. Consumed some yucca to help bring on digestion. Was not sure if this was due to sleep deprivation or the effects of fasting but he immediately felt something, especially when he was lying down on his back. Felt slightly dissociated, sleepy, and brain become sensitive to sounds and light. Drank the chacruna which was as horrible as he remembered and was able to keep it down for 30 minutes before overwhelming nausea took over. The experience reminded him of when he was sick in bed with a high fever and was delirious. Finally was not able to keep it down and purged, and the feeling was intense. He felt a prickly sensation over his entire body like when your foot falls asleep. Standing up, the world was spinning and could not walk straight. He felt sort of normal when sitting up hunching over but as soon as he laid down on his back he felt as if he was drunk and stoned at the same time. Was drifting in and out of sleep and the stage consciousness that was between it. Again, could not tell if this was due to sleep deprivation.
Did not see any visions, and did not get any answers but felt enormously relaxed, buzzed, but slightly sad. Had the best sleep he had in months and felt refreshed but still did not feel has if he had the full experience. Felt like it gave him the relaxation and high that weed was supposed to give him but couldn't (weed makes him extremely paranoid, depressed, and tired). He wants to know if he is doing anything wrong or if he is just getting a weak caapi/chacruna batch. He will try again (in the end he will escalate to the legendary Hawaiian chacruna) but still is waiting for the life-changing experience and understanding that aya has to offer.
