Some Phalaris reports:
'Phoolin' Around With Phalaris'-Phree Phalaris Phor All
Picking Phalaris leaves and smoking them or vaporizing them straight after harvest gives a pretty enjoyable easily accessible tryptamine source. Works well with meditation.
A reported bioassay of smoking momentarily sun-dried Phalaris Arundinacea from a forest and it being most effective when bottom(old growth) and top(fresh growth) leaves were combined and smoked in a strictly Phalaris joint. Effects caught the user off guard with three-dimensional mystical patterns appearing and giving a fine body high. There are many other accounts of smoking dried grass and it being efficient and evidently effective.
An account of picking re-growth of three-month-old P. Brachystachys in October and loading it into a bong with nothing else gave the tryptamine face fee, increase of complex thoughts, and enhanced visual acuity like that of Psilocybin.
A very unsafe "Phalaris Jello" bioassay exists as of recently. When subject was drying out the simmered-down aqueous acetic Phalaris tar, some of it was put inside a jello mix and allowed to bake together. One serving of the jello using leftover crude extract was enough to feel high and further consumption led to dissociative trances blinking in and out. After eating the jello for consecutive days, a bit of nausea was felt. No MAOI was taken, rendering the Phalaris extract orally active on its own. Also, when chewing and swallowing Phalaris on LSD, "spiritual awareness" somewhat increases. Note that grass was dried for 5-7 days before extraction and was harvested near a lake on a rainy late-September morning.
The above mentioned "Phalaris Jello" bioassay is not recommended but proves the various and dangerous methods of ingestion. Phalaris tea and smoke never taste foul(to me) at all and actually are more easy going and tasty than some herbs and other Aya-teas.
Phalarian Rue
Dosage: oral 2g Peganum Harmala, 8g of various P. Arundinacea, P. Brachystachys, P. Aquatica fresh clipped(home grown plants) foliage. Body weight: 170 experience year: 2013
Peganum and Phalaris were simmered for a day on low and filtered out a few times. Brew didn't taste bad, burned throat a little though. Effects came on immediately, seemed like that was the Peganum Harmala talking. After a nice gentle high/body load with blurry visions was felt for about 30min, a wave of meditative trance came over me that was something in between lethargy and euphoria. Odd tears in the inner picture were observed, almost like how oil ignites on a surface of water(revealing blurred scenes of imagery beyond the tears). Visual waves that weaved the membrane web of data nets around me looked like The Matrix and an Alex Grey painting for a minute. When visions did suffice, they were short lasted. At points I was unable to distinguish if it was the Phalaris/Rue or my ego talking to me in little encouraging fragments.(In retrospect, took it during a greatly transitional time in life and had low esteem on receiving encouragement from plant teachers for whatever reason. So definitely was the Phalaris/Rue combo giving me the inspirations. I got this sense that the grass was possibly high in 5-MeO-DMT though no alkaloid analytical tests were carried out with TLC. Other noises and movements in the room became somewhat irritable, though no negativity was really felt. Was this possibly discomfort? Effects lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes. Ate sweet potatoes afterwards. 30 minutes after the experience(2hours later) feel completely at baseline with a nice sedated vibe. Thank you Phalaris Arundinacea, Phalaris Aquatica, Phalaris Brachystachys, and Peganum Harmala. This was very mild, content, enjoyable journey into a great meditative environment.
-So stronger effects lasted 1.5 hours and the come down I guess was another 1.5-2 since still felt "high" just not inner visions. Maybe NMT continuing to do its thing for a bit.
'Phly High With Phalaris'
Smoked 40mg of Phalaris Arundinacea crystals with cannabis underneath and Mugwort on top, elicited a smooth 5-10 minute journey, definitely coming down around 8 minutes. Effects noted were nice body buzz, feeling of pineal activation and odd/complex "DMT"-like geometric shapes and flying visuals. Also, in closed eye visuals there appeared visions of forests, trees, snakes, and other winding blue, green, and red imagery. Was said that it wasn't very "bright", sort of "dim". Possibly the notion that Cannabis clouds DMT-visions or the amount of light in the room at the time. About 15-20 minutes after that, more acetone-pulled Phalaris goop was scraped up and loaded into a pipe. The effects of smoking second-pulled Phalaris extract 30 minutes after previous bioassay were greatly different in many ways. It took longer than usual for DMT-like effects to kick in, "it was like I moved forward almost out of my body and it was very lucid feeling. Thought I was talking to someone at one point and it was hard to tell how long it lasted." Subject fell asleep afterwards. Note on second bowl that Cannabis was again packed underneath extract and dried P. Arundinacea grass packed on top. Another subject had smoked about twice as much extract all at once and only noted sedating mildly euphoric effects, though it was suspected that inhaled smoke was immediately released and not held in to initiate the best potency. Extracts were from November harvested P. Arundinacea.
A week later, a bioassay of smoking seriously 5-10mg(eyeball) of Reed Canary Grass extract with dried Phalaris underneath and Cannabis Sativa atop proved active. First effects were immediate, not surprisingly jolting or anything just a feeling of my soul easing itself with my body. Meditative "DMT-like" come up with less body buzz lasted 5 minutes and transitioned into the torso of the trip for near 15 minutes. Those moments in between dimensions was characterized by revelatory thoughts about spirituality and my place amongst the stars. A presence was somewhat detected and I turned my head. Effects seemed to increase with the moving of my neck and head. Also, deep breathing brought more the DMT but uniquely Phalaris colors and designs. After 20 minutes the dark almost vision-less journey revved up to almost appear as if the room was bright and bleeding through my eyelids. I opened my eyes soon after feeling a push of small propulsion and felt great as all fuck. Overall body effects were nice, relaxed, meditative, fluffy. Visual effects were subtle but more so geared at archaic sketches blurred in the mists of time's thousandth horizon. Experience seemed to last 25 minutes, notes were taken soon afterwards. Strongly oneric after-effects the 2-3 nights following. The Phalaris extract used was from a mid-November PNW field harvest.
Seems like this one resonates with Jamie's experience with the 5-MeO-NMT peaking wild P. Arundinacea.
Effects consistent to 5-meo-nmt:
instant feeling, but not a plowing rush. The space sort of vaporizes you.
Slowly misting into the ethereal yet you get to stay on Earth somewhat.
Lasts about 40 minutes after effects and all.
Peak around 15-25(10 minute peak).
A gorgeous lesson from the underdog Plant teacher of our human future.
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While on one tab of LSD, two separate extracts from the same batch of grass were smoked in a pipe. Unsure as to which one was more effective or if both were equal since they were smoked close together with no time in between. Dried grass smoked in a joint with extracts and Cannabis a short while after provided the cleanest experience, much more active than with the extracts alone. The dried grass was from a September harvest, the extracts were that of an August expedition.
"Managing Alkaloid Production in Phalaris"
Although the presence of tryptamine alkaloids in the Phalaris genus has been widely reported, these reports show quite a bit of variation in which specific alkaloids are present and in what concentration, though every Phalaris bioassay we have conducted has proven active, ranging from the pineal lubricating qualities often felt by smoked Damiana(Turnera Diffusa), to the sedating effects of Cannabis Indica, to full out of body experiences, even some sort of dissociation not necessarily similar to a "mystical" experience. For example, smoking two different extracts of November harvested Phalaris Arundinacea during the peak of a Psilocybe Cyanescens journey allowed me to experience the "clockwork elves" crawling out of my eyes with shoots and ladders and just tumbling into the world constructing geometric monuments that were brightly colorful as well as eccentric, but I did not realize what that occurrence could have possibly been until after the mushrooms wore off and I was collecting my thought fabrics. These were crystals that were collected after evaporating the 24-hour freeze precipitated Naphtha and no chromatography of any sort aside from the effects of the bioassay listed above indicated the presence of any of the alkaloids claimed. The other time traveler who also smoked the Phalaris crystals, a Phalaris-goo extract, with Cannabis and Skullcap(scutellaria lateriflora) wedged above and below at the same time, used more(25mg VS 40-60mg), and experienced heightened increase in open and closed eye activity of visuals and mentioned a lost childhood memory popping into his head. Were testing for 5-MeO-DMT so a small amount was used to dose the first time and was increased for the second round which was 5-10 minutes after first smoking interval. Now, a few factors come to mind when assessing the mildness of the experience: if all collected alkaloids in the crystals were smoked at one time(60-85mg), there was a general consensus that a highly entheogenic experience would have been achieved. Also, if more time was given in between sessions, it definitely would have been more potent, due partly to the "DMT-wall-of-time" of about 30 minutes that should be allowed if expecting more intense blast-off sequences and also the observations of many that Phalaris seems to mildly hit immediately after smoking but takes a bit longer than the usual 2 minute veil before release. We could have waited a little longer for the first effects to hit to see what each experience uniquely brought, but all is said and done and were all part of a remarkable night. Sometimes the smoking peak has appeared at the 15-20 minute mark, giving me the suspicion that either the Beta Carbolines or other tryptamines like N-Methyltryptamine(NMT), 5-methoxy-n-mehtyltryptamine(5-MeO-NMT) and 5-methyltryptamine(5-mt) and the B-Carbolines contained have seen little to no assaying by themselves outside of limited obscure lab-animal experiments or in-vitro on-paper equations of what chemists and pharmacologists think might happen, so all of these tryptamines, including sometimes Bufotenine(5-Hydroxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine), could be the causative extenders of the expected simply-DMT experience from Phalaris grass extracts. The Phalaris experience, whether ingested or smoked, is very unique to the grass in particular. Similarly, as the various alkaloids in Psilocybin fungus fill in so many cracks of the mushroom experience, the variety of indoles beside DMT in Phalaris adds a splendid effective new kind of entheogenic rush to the table. Imagine the DMT is just the pepper on top of the poultry.
A few days later an account of smoking the Reed Canary Grass crystals and crude-goo extract synergized well with the Acacia Confusa crystal extract that was being smoked at the same time. Alcohol was consumed a half-hour prior so effects seemed to be lenghtened on their own, but general body buzz and elevated perception were more noticeable than usual, possibly due to alkaloids in the crude Phalaris extract, or just everything all together.
Crude extractions from a June harvest in the Pacific Northwest gave two subjects intense visuals and body pull and complete disembowlement of time perception, and strongly affected sensory signal relay for a moment while on one tab of LSD, the other on 2 tabs. The person on one tab of LSD smoked 3-5 hits of it and tripped very hard as opposed to the other on 2 tabs who took 1-2 puffs that were held in for close to 45 seconds and experienced effects that were less overwhelming than the person on one tab noted. This is a totally subjective comparison and varies. Might quite possibly have vaporized most of the good alkaloids before passing it to the other person.
All harvests were from PNW zone 7b except P. Pardoxa which was from zone 8b, yet only a few hours drive from our regular post-up.
More notes to come!
Love and Blessings
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I like the look of this one but have no idea what is in it ???
