Subtle Intro into Ayahuasca

[Make Shift]

PRE-CONDITIONS

(mind)Set: Very calm and pleasant
(physical condition) Set: Healthy and energetic
Setting (location): Safety of my bedroom
time of day: 23:00 Hrs
recent drug use: Exactly a week back 90 grams caapi brew with 50mg spice
last meal: 20:00. A few slices of water melon and A few blue berries.

PARTICIPANT
Gender: M
body weight: 79 kgs
known sensitivities: Mild Acid reflux for milk and a few diary products
history of use: Quite experienced with LSD and a few episodes with vaping freebase spice and smoking changa

BIOASSAY
Substance(s): Yellow Caapi Finely Shredded, Free Base Spice
Dose(s): 135 grams brew from last week brewed without acid, 165 grams brewed over the past few days with vinegar .... combined 135 grams into 165 grams and reduced to a total of 140 ml. 80-85 mg spice.
Method of administration: Oral


EFFECTS
Administration time:
T=0:00
Consumed 150 ml caapi brew , waited 30 minutes and consumed spice in a little water
First effects: T +1 hour : Burping sounds within stomach, ran to the toilet and purge from rear entrance
Peak: T=1:30-3:00
Come down:3:00
Baseline: 2:00

Intensity (overall): 2

OPTIONAL
Pleasantness: 2.5
Unplesantness: 1
Visual Intensity: 2


AFTER-EFFECTS
Hangover: 3
Afterglow: 0


REPORT

I had tried my first aya session last week having brewed 265 grams last week without any vinegar using the 3x3 hour boiling method followed by reduction of 3.5 liters into 300 ml. Drank equivalent of close to 100 grams with nothing but very little light headedness.

So this week i made rest of my caapi using the same method, only this time i used 1.5 table spoon for every 1.5 liter water, into the 3 brews i pored in the remaining no acidified 150gm( more like 130) and reduced the entire brew into 140 ml ( 300 grams )

My day was pretty normal, for breakfast i had oatmeal (no sugar, no milk).
Lunch was homemade wheat bread with olive oil and wild thyme with a little fresh fish.
Evening at 6pm i had little water melon and blueberries, followed by 3 walnuts, 3 almonds,6-10 dry raisins.
At 11pm i drank the entire 140ml (300 grams) in one go. Tasted very different without vinegar last week.
Anyway, I waited for half an hour and consumed freebase dmt(100mg) in little water. Today morning I checked the glass and there was little of the spice on the sides of the glass, so I must have consumed not more than 80-85 mg.
Anyway, no nausea nothing. At one hour mark exactly I felt the sudden urge to hit the washroom, purge from down, a lot. No vomiting sensation though.
At 1 hour and 30 minutes, I was lying down, and there were these unrelated/non related closed eye visuals. Different patterns, not fractals or anything. Then I played some light music ("yansimalar-golge"-turkish music with violin and flute) and then started visuals like the ones experienced on lsd, but not very defined. On lsd the visuals are always very digital like, very defined in it's geometry> here the visuals were from real life, floating images of flowing rivers, flowers Then I turned off the music, because the visuals were turning a little bizzare and made me feel a little unpleasant. I tried standing up and felt a little (very little) disoriented. But nothing like I couldn't function. I came back to my bed and then there were these very intense and bright CEVs, like something is bursting out of my head into the skies and similarly something from the sky drilling into my head, I felt as though my head was fixed on something and something was being poured into my head. These visuals were very bright green in colour and lasted not more than 2-5 minutes at most. There was a lot of pressure and maybe even a little vibration on my right eye, slight numb feeling at my feet, and a feeling like something was flowing within/through my body....very mellow. The visuals like these continued for a total of 2 hours and then the sudden urge to go to the washroom. Lol ayahausca taught me that we can literally piss through the rear exit. Very literally. Not going into the details there.
My face had the continuous feeling of vibration, especially around my right eye and then a kind of feeling i get when i smoked changa last year, sudden jerks of energy making me open my eyes out of some kind of unknown fear.


I must have fallen asleep by 3-3:30 and woke up at 11:30 with a slight headache.
My mom prepared some mutton biryani which i happily devoured and fell asleep again from 14:15 to 17:00. Headache still there.:|

In the evening i went out and got some pizza and garlic bread, post dinner i had some dates with black tea and slept by 23:30. Today morning i woke up with the same slight head ache.

I quite well followed the ayahuasca diet, eventhough it's not necessary for RIMAs as many experts say. But i personally think i should have strictly followed the ayahuasca diet or atleast a very light diet most importantly after the session for a day or 2 to reduce the body load, so that the body would have less to clean up and cleanse. Maybe the heaviness of the biryani and pizza is what's causing the head ache to not go away.

Altogether, I think it was a failure this time, considering I had equivalent of 300 grams. Shouldn't 300 grams rocked my world? With or without dmt? I can safely assume the caapi got was not potent.

Lessons Learned :

1. Always buy from reliable vendors.:|
2. Follow a neat, light, healthy diet atleast 2 days before and after the sessions, rich in raw food avoiding processed & refined food so that the body won't have much work to do in terms of purge too and recovery.

 

[Jees]

Thanks for sharing, I've never had to go "rear", I'm vegetarian mainly but dunno if that plays a part.

Yes it's best to continue the diet for a day in the case you get headaches.

 

[Make Shift]

I definitely agree about continuing a light n healthy diet atleast the system is returned to it's normal state. Also it would be highly recommended to follow this diet for a mental and physical well being. I personally can't stay away from meat for more than 3/4 days.
It's an interesting thing you point about the vegetarian thing,but I never have processed meat or chicken, always fresh.
Next time I will stay away from meat for atleast 3 days before and after the sessions.
I get the feeling that the rear explosion was due to all the sludge I drank. :lol:

 

[travsha]

Usually almonds and raisins would be considered a no no on the day of ceremony (okay the day before). Probably not the biggest deal though. You usually want fresher foods - those are often dried or stored for a while and raisins might have sugar and almonds have more oil then you want. Raw is not really traditional and neither is vegetarian - most highly recommended foods are actually fish, starches, veggies and chicken breast. Fruit should be blander fruit like green bananas or green apples because you dont want much sugar. Lentils or split peas would be good if you are vegetarian.

When you diet master plants it is usually suggested to leave out most veggies too as they can interfere because they have their own plant energy competing with the plant you are dieting. Not as important for just Ayahuasca though.

Also - dieting more is actually supposed to help you have a deeper purge because the medicine can go deeper. With Ayahuasca you want to purge - it is actually one of the main reasons to drink it. So cleaner diet can help you purge more (I purge more when I eat cleaner actually). Ayahuasca doesnt make you sick - it brings forth dark energies that make you sick as they are called out, so feeling sick is actually a good sign - means you are letting go.

 

[Make Shift]

I should have considered this, i was told walnuts are good, i half assumed almonds to be the same as well.

Thanks for the advice brother, i thought it was better to keep the food light so as to keep the digestive system at it's lowest potential....i agree that more the greens and veggies, the stronger the motion can be in comparison to meat.

How long do you stay empty before drinking aya ? But one thing i noticed is, if there aren't enough carbohydrates in the body we tend to become tired or weak sooner which might make purging all the more painful and difficult, is my understanding correct ?

 

[travsha]

Usually nuts are good but skipped on the day of ceremony - nuts have lots of oils and are usually stored for long periods. I dont think eating a few would be a big deal though. I know some people who dont diet at all and they are fine when they drink. One time I had a giant buffet the night before with 5 other people in the same ceremony - we all had great ceremonies. (we had eaten pork, sugar, alcohol, fermented things, oils, salt ect - had great ceremony still)

Dieting I think is not truly necessary - just helpful for going deeper. You will hopefully puke either way, as puking is one of the main benefits of Ayahuasca. If you really dont want to puke, then either work with a different medicine or learn to like it! Learning to appreciate the purge is actually a very powerful lesson to learn with Ayahuasca - helped me in many ways.

I usually eat lunch and then fast after that. You wont be too weak to puke or anything like that - skipping a meal really doesnt make you any weaker. The body is fine skipping a meal and the Ayahuasca will give you more energy. If you are too tired - drink more Ayahuasca! If you eat before puking will probably be chunkier which makes it a bit more nasty, but it wont be any less painful.

I just dieted for 10 days and had 7 Ayahuasca ceremonies in that time - so I skipped 7 dinners. I was not weak at all in ceremony. I was a little weak during the day from having no salt (I dieted 7 days before the 10 day diet as well), but had plenty of energy in ceremony. I was assisting in ceremony and helping other people out the whole night, and I was playing music in ceremony - had plenty of energy without dinner. (I'm skinny too and could use the extra calories, but a little fasting is good for your body)

Puking isnt really pleasant and you cant really make it pleasant. What helps the most is having a positive perspective about it. Learn how to laugh when you feel sick. Smile at your bucket - it's your friend for the night.

 

[Make Shift]

Puking isnt really pleasant and you cant really make it pleasant. What helps the most is having a positive perspective about it. Learn how to laugh when you feel sick. Smile at your bucket - it's your friend for the night.

That's quite a nice approach or way of looking at it.:thumb_up:
My only experience a few days back didn't make me nauseous at all, I wonder why. There was no tendency to vomit at all, except for the grumbling noises from the stomach and the purge from the bottom. Also, I never found the taste of the caapi brew both with and without vinegar repulsive so to speak. Yes, the one with vinegar was really strong and bitter, but i'm a person who enjoys tripple espresso without any sugar and 80-90 dark chocolate. Wonder if my fondness to that taste had any influence.
Could have also been that way because my caapi was quite weak and that potency is the most important factor that causes us to purge? Like coughing when you smoke makes the high more intense.

Yes I understand that caapi and rue are RIMAs and don't have negative interactions with food for most people, but I guess there have been isolated reports have discomfort of negative reactions?
However it's always better to have a healthy diet whether or not drinking the caapi, isn't it now?