wilspeak said:This is my trip report. I made 3 grams of Syrian Rue Tea , strained the seeds and drank the tea. 30 mins after I drank the tea I started to feel the effects. I weighed out 28 grams of 2 year old mushrooms. I blended the mushrooms up into a smoothie and I added lions mane mushroom powder drank the smoothie. To tell you the truth... the experience was Not that heavy as I expected. I had a heavier, deeper mushroom trip when I took 18 grams (without) Syrian Rue. Now I am thinking maybe my mushrooms are losing potency because they are 2 years old... however they were frozen and I thought that they should have stayed strong. Also the syrian Rue seeds are about 3 years old, but they are kept dry , wrapped up in a cool dark area . so they should be good.... so now I am wondering what happened ???? The trip was light... the Syrian Rue did change the signature of the mushroom trip, but it didn't intensify the trip at all. My prior trips were a lot deeper without Syrian rue. I am not going to use syrain rue the next time I do High Dose mushrooms. I would like to read your opinions. The highlight of the trip was that I communicated with my crystals. Thank You
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Voidmatrix said:wilspeak said:This is my trip report. I made 3 grams of Syrian Rue Tea , strained the seeds and drank the tea. 30 mins after I drank the tea I started to feel the effects. I weighed out 28 grams of 2 year old mushrooms. I blended the mushrooms up into a smoothie and I added lions mane mushroom powder drank the smoothie. To tell you the truth... the experience was Not that heavy as I expected. I had a heavier, deeper mushroom trip when I took 18 grams (without) Syrian Rue. Now I am thinking maybe my mushrooms are losing potency because they are 2 years old... however they were frozen and I thought that they should have stayed strong. Also the syrian Rue seeds are about 3 years old, but they are kept dry , wrapped up in a cool dark area . so they should be good.... so now I am wondering what happened ???? The trip was light... the Syrian Rue did change the signature of the mushroom trip, but it didn't intensify the trip at all. My prior trips were a lot deeper without Syrian rue. I am not going to use syrain rue the next time I do High Dose mushrooms. I would like to read your opinions. The highlight of the trip was that I communicated with my crystals. Thank You
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I'll have to hunt around, but there was a thread recently that detailed why freezing mushrooms for storage is not ideal. If I recall correctly, it's something to do with loss of potency, which is counterintuitive, but may be the case based on the molecular behavior of some of the host compounds.
How did you go about roasting the seeds before steeping them? That may be another factor here.
And were they the same mushrooms as the 18g journey you referenced? Different strains, from batch to batch, and flush to flush can impact general intensity.
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Voidmatrix said:Interesting. It sounds like you may need to have another experience with mushrooms that have not been frozen in order to see if it's the mushrooms or potentially another factor that delimited the intensity of this particular excursion.
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ShamensStamen said:Well, that's disappointing, i know. I think something somewhere went wrong, it could be the mushrooms potency loss possibly, or maybe the Rue wasn't brewed well enough, or the timing wasn't right, how long after the Rue did you dose the mushrooms? The Rue stays good potency wise for a long while, i've noticed no potency loss from Rue i've had stored in a bag in a drawer for years.
Also, when it comes to dosing the mushrooms, it's far better imo to brew them up into a tea. Mixing the mushrooms into a smoothie doesn't sound ideal to me because it sounds like it'd slow the digestion/absorption of the mushrooms and make it kick in slower/lighter, whereas you want more of an empty stomach and straight liquid, preferably. I'm thinking the smoothie is probably to blame for your light trip, possibly potency loss as well but i would skip the smoothie next time. Even if smoothies work well for mushrooms on their own, for Psilohuasca you have to do things a certain way for it to work and be potentiated right.
Do not give up on the Rue/Harmalas/Psilohuasca, trust me man, this stuff is not a "one and done" kinda thing, it can be a bit of trial and error and experimentation but it's well worth it and highly rewarding. Dose it correctly, and it will work, don't just call it quits after one dud experience, like come on bruh lol. Find out when your gut's MAO-A is fully inhibited, mine is usually going good an hour into the Rue and i find that's the best time for me to dose Mimosa or Acacia tea, or 4-ACO-DMT or mushroom tea. If you do it right, believe me, it will work amazingly, my last Psilohuasca experience had me in freakin' ecstacy talking in tongues in front of my gf, pounding the table, stomping my feet because it was really powerfully amazing, ah i wish i could feel that again lol.
Btw how was the character of the experience with the addition of the Rue for you?
Tomtegubbe said:Most straightforward way to take psilohuasca: Take 3 grams of grounded syrian rue. Wait about 45 minutes. Take 2-3 grams of cubensis. To mitigate the nausea you can fill a capsule with lemon essential oil and swallow it with the rue seeds.
Syrian rue can potentiate the mushrooms a lot, so even the 2-3 grams may be on the high end. If you are experienced, you can of course go for the lemon tek (soak mushrooms in lemon juice before consuming) for a quicker come up and more potentiation, but then you should decrease the dose.
downwardsfromzero said:Sounds like your mushrooms are losing potency, or your guardian angels interceded to prevent unnecessary damage to the fabric of space-time, maybe both
It kind of makes me wonder what would happen if you took one of your super-high doses using freshly-dried mushrooms rather than material that's 2 years old. I would suggest that in such an instance you might like to start with a tenth of your usual high dose, just in case.