Hello. I was just wondering why some people take such big doses of caapi. I see people often write of taking 100 or more grams, and I wonder why because you'll probably just end up throwing up half your dose before absorbing it. I also wonder if the purge from such doses in due not to the plant, but to the large dose of harmalas themselves. Big doses of pure harmalas will make one feel dizzy and sick. The sick feelings detract from the trip.
From Gibran's caapi extraction experiments, he claims to have gotten about 3% alkaloids at most, and around 1% on the lower end. So, that means that a 100g dose of caapi is probably about as little as 1g of pure harmalas, or as much as 3g! That is much more than necessary and doses that large will probably make you sick.
Just wondering because I have never cooked the vine itself. Is there anyone who takes 100g of caapi and does NOT have a purge along with severe vertigo and flue like symptoms? I sometimes wonder if people who take ayahuasca prepared by boiling are overshooting their doses, and then they just end up throwing up a lot of it. Maybe it would be better to take less so as to not purge and waste. Thoughts?
From Gibran's caapi extraction experiments, he claims to have gotten about 3% alkaloids at most, and around 1% on the lower end. So, that means that a 100g dose of caapi is probably about as little as 1g of pure harmalas, or as much as 3g! That is much more than necessary and doses that large will probably make you sick.
Just wondering because I have never cooked the vine itself. Is there anyone who takes 100g of caapi and does NOT have a purge along with severe vertigo and flue like symptoms? I sometimes wonder if people who take ayahuasca prepared by boiling are overshooting their doses, and then they just end up throwing up a lot of it. Maybe it would be better to take less so as to not purge and waste. Thoughts?