ControlledChaos
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Last night I successfully brewed and tested my first ever DMT/Harmala brew, comprising of Syrian Rue I purchased and ACRB that I harvested. This was not my first time drinking this type of brew, but it was the first I made myself. Mind you I didn't harvest it in a forest but there was an ornamental Acacia Confusa at a public park that was fallen and uprooted from a storm. Since it was dead there was no reason not to go for the root bark, so I got around 150-200 g of it total and shredded up the nicest parts. My Syrian Rue I simply bought.
Since the ACRB was of dubious origin being not from a vendor but harvested from a random location that I chanced upon, I felt I needed to make my first tea as easy as possible in preparation. So I got 3 grams of rue and just boiled it down for about 30 minutes, then did the same for the ACRB except for an hour after I shredded the bark more finely. I poured each into their own separate mug and drank down the Syrian rue.
Now, I thought the bad taste of Syrian Rue was maybe overblown because people said similar things about traditional Ayahuasca and I actually liked it. But I'd say they were on the money for this one. That was one of the worst things I've ever tasted. I waited 30 minutes before drinking my Acacia tea. The Acacia tea was actually alright, though the red hue of the tea was a bit intimidating. I drank up and sat in my room with a bucket.
For a second, I actually thought I wasn't gonna purge… oh how wrong I was. When I entered the DMT/Aya headspace and those all too familiar buzzing noises started up, I felt both nervous and relieved. My ACRB was good after all, but I wasn't sure how strong it was going to be. There's a certain smell/taste you can sense in your throat and even feel mentally in a synthesesia sort of way. It's hard to describe but it's very distinct and I always associated it with my buzzing sound I always hear on this sort of thing. Feels really earthy and natural but kind of alien and insectisoid too. My answer to how strong this trip would be came when I viscerally began purging half my ACRB tea, though the DMT had already began working. The Syrian Rue was beginning to hit.
Now, I've had purges before. I've even purged my guts out in my first Aya trip. But even then, there was space to just sit with the DMT before I had to deal with that again. Tonight's purge was unrelenting with not much time between purges, and the purge went on well past the acute DMT effects. I don't know if it's because I've only had caapi or what, but Syrian Rue is seeming incredibly harsh to me right now with the taste and how much I purged from it. The result of this near-constant purging was a very meandering and unfocused trip compared to my previous ones.
Don't get me wrong, the DMT definitely had messages to give me. I almost immediately began conversing with either an outside entity or just a smarter version of me that unlocks in this space. Through the brutal purge I still unpacked a lot of different things and reviewed what I could have done differently since my last sitting with Aya, and I still got little vignettes of beautiful closer eye visual shows. But nothing ever stayed on topic because as soon as I got onto a good stream of dialogue the feeling of needing to purge started back up and I would lose track. The silver lining is that the trip covered a lot of ground due to its lack of focus, though perhaps not as in depth as usual. There was a broad spectrum of thoughts to marinate on and integrate. Another silver lining was that it really did feel like it pulled out all the nasty things that could have been sitting in my gut since my last session, and I feel somewhat refreshed now.
The visual component of this trip was classic DMT (for me anyway). Flowing, patterned, ornate, intricate, contrasting, crystalline, infrared, ultraviolet, twisting, changing. A common one was this translucent rainbow colored glass liquid that would flow into these different beautiful forms. Sometimes there would be a grid pattern as other shapes and figures twinkled and manifested themselves into the picture. It had a lot of strikingly contrasting multicolored lights against the dark background of my closed eyes. These are the kind of visuals I usually get. I love them very much and it's an aesthetic I yearn for in normal life.
When I inquired to the entity (who appeared male and almost like a sarcastic joking yet helpful uncle figure oddly enough) about why this amount of purge was necessary, and why purging needed to happen at all, it said that the stress that purging puts you under also incentives you to listen to what it has to say. I also thought (more on my own as myself) that after the purge the relief of feeling less nauseous even for a little bit brought on instant euphoria in the context of the DMT trip.
Honestly though, I think even the DMT entity itself kind of wished I used a little less Syrian Rue. This was a helpful trip because Ayahuasca trips always give something. But it's not an experience I plan on repeating and I think this trip would have gone deeper without this much purging. I don't mind some purging but this was a bit over the top. Henceforth, I will not be preparing in this way again, if I can even bring myself to drink rue tea again at all. I know 3 grams is said to be a good amount of Rue, but I definitely think next time I'd want to tone it down to 1-2 g grams and use more ACRB.
I've also seen it suggested here that ACRB itself has things in it that cause purging like tannins, so I might instead either do a tannin removal next time or just extract the DMT and do it pharma style, however that would be my first extraction so I'd need to read up on it a bit. I definitely have access to enough ACRB right now for a pretty hefty amount of DMT and I could always go back and get more.
What do you think, nexians? What can I do to make my Syrian Rue/ACRB tea less terribly nausea inducing? Has anybody else encountered this issue? Thanks for reading as always!
Since the ACRB was of dubious origin being not from a vendor but harvested from a random location that I chanced upon, I felt I needed to make my first tea as easy as possible in preparation. So I got 3 grams of rue and just boiled it down for about 30 minutes, then did the same for the ACRB except for an hour after I shredded the bark more finely. I poured each into their own separate mug and drank down the Syrian rue.
Now, I thought the bad taste of Syrian Rue was maybe overblown because people said similar things about traditional Ayahuasca and I actually liked it. But I'd say they were on the money for this one. That was one of the worst things I've ever tasted. I waited 30 minutes before drinking my Acacia tea. The Acacia tea was actually alright, though the red hue of the tea was a bit intimidating. I drank up and sat in my room with a bucket.
For a second, I actually thought I wasn't gonna purge… oh how wrong I was. When I entered the DMT/Aya headspace and those all too familiar buzzing noises started up, I felt both nervous and relieved. My ACRB was good after all, but I wasn't sure how strong it was going to be. There's a certain smell/taste you can sense in your throat and even feel mentally in a synthesesia sort of way. It's hard to describe but it's very distinct and I always associated it with my buzzing sound I always hear on this sort of thing. Feels really earthy and natural but kind of alien and insectisoid too. My answer to how strong this trip would be came when I viscerally began purging half my ACRB tea, though the DMT had already began working. The Syrian Rue was beginning to hit.
Now, I've had purges before. I've even purged my guts out in my first Aya trip. But even then, there was space to just sit with the DMT before I had to deal with that again. Tonight's purge was unrelenting with not much time between purges, and the purge went on well past the acute DMT effects. I don't know if it's because I've only had caapi or what, but Syrian Rue is seeming incredibly harsh to me right now with the taste and how much I purged from it. The result of this near-constant purging was a very meandering and unfocused trip compared to my previous ones.
Don't get me wrong, the DMT definitely had messages to give me. I almost immediately began conversing with either an outside entity or just a smarter version of me that unlocks in this space. Through the brutal purge I still unpacked a lot of different things and reviewed what I could have done differently since my last sitting with Aya, and I still got little vignettes of beautiful closer eye visual shows. But nothing ever stayed on topic because as soon as I got onto a good stream of dialogue the feeling of needing to purge started back up and I would lose track. The silver lining is that the trip covered a lot of ground due to its lack of focus, though perhaps not as in depth as usual. There was a broad spectrum of thoughts to marinate on and integrate. Another silver lining was that it really did feel like it pulled out all the nasty things that could have been sitting in my gut since my last session, and I feel somewhat refreshed now.
The visual component of this trip was classic DMT (for me anyway). Flowing, patterned, ornate, intricate, contrasting, crystalline, infrared, ultraviolet, twisting, changing. A common one was this translucent rainbow colored glass liquid that would flow into these different beautiful forms. Sometimes there would be a grid pattern as other shapes and figures twinkled and manifested themselves into the picture. It had a lot of strikingly contrasting multicolored lights against the dark background of my closed eyes. These are the kind of visuals I usually get. I love them very much and it's an aesthetic I yearn for in normal life.
When I inquired to the entity (who appeared male and almost like a sarcastic joking yet helpful uncle figure oddly enough) about why this amount of purge was necessary, and why purging needed to happen at all, it said that the stress that purging puts you under also incentives you to listen to what it has to say. I also thought (more on my own as myself) that after the purge the relief of feeling less nauseous even for a little bit brought on instant euphoria in the context of the DMT trip.
Honestly though, I think even the DMT entity itself kind of wished I used a little less Syrian Rue. This was a helpful trip because Ayahuasca trips always give something. But it's not an experience I plan on repeating and I think this trip would have gone deeper without this much purging. I don't mind some purging but this was a bit over the top. Henceforth, I will not be preparing in this way again, if I can even bring myself to drink rue tea again at all. I know 3 grams is said to be a good amount of Rue, but I definitely think next time I'd want to tone it down to 1-2 g grams and use more ACRB.
I've also seen it suggested here that ACRB itself has things in it that cause purging like tannins, so I might instead either do a tannin removal next time or just extract the DMT and do it pharma style, however that would be my first extraction so I'd need to read up on it a bit. I definitely have access to enough ACRB right now for a pretty hefty amount of DMT and I could always go back and get more.
What do you think, nexians? What can I do to make my Syrian Rue/ACRB tea less terribly nausea inducing? Has anybody else encountered this issue? Thanks for reading as always!
Awesome!