Amanita Research Forum

Or, take for example Gerónimo, the legendary apache military chief who was baptized, and his parents too. He was not nomad, nor lived in a tipee, nor did his parents and grandparents, because they were integrated part of the cosmovision of Spain of those times and to that of the Catholic Church. Th...

The main point of interest, if you try any experiments, I imagine would be whether the disconnected mushroom grows in terms of size only, or also mass. So at least you would want to weigh them before and after. It would be more ideal to compare dry weight, in case any added mass turns out to be just...

I have the impression that A. muscaria has been introduced in South America with nursery stock from the northern hemisphere. If so, has been there only a couple generations at most, and probably not at all yet in areas with strong surviving indigenous culture.

I happened to see something about this, posted by one of our local mycologists Paul Stamets - a time lapse series of a detached Amanita muscaria growing up over six days. metamorphosizes from the button to mature stage in 6 days. Detached from the ground, and although appearing larger, the mushroom ...

Is the purpose of converting Ibotenic acid to muscimol purely so one doesn't get naunsea and a stomach upset? Well, ibotenic acid is apparently fairly toxic, if it gets into your system. The wikipedia article mentions that they use it in rat experiments to "lesion" (i.e., partially destroy) their b...

Good luck, let us know how it goes. I see there haven't been as many replies as I expected, so ... it seems to me from what I've been reading here, that T36's lemon tea recipe is a lot more like the common approach, and my method of simply chewing them up could be a little eccentric. (It works for m...

I bet it won't take 3 grams dry weight to feel an effect. If you can weigh things down to approximately a gram, you might weigh out 3 grams - and then pick out a quarter of that amount , or so. I'm new to this, myself, but that's a small but noticeable dose for me, just chewed up and swallowed (I'm ...

People who say science isn't everything and then make completely unscientific statements are just showing ignorance to how science works. Maybe you haven't seen my video on lore vs science. So teaching me the role science plays and that I should have humility, basically shaming, is not going over w...

Yeah, it isn't a big deal, and anyway I guess perhaps there's no sense in making an Official Amanita Research How To Instructions for Ingesting Poisonous Mushrooms. But since that's naturally what we tend to do on the internet anyway, it occurred to me maybe an interesting way to aggregate informati...

On a practical note, at 40% alcohol the shelf life will be a lot longer, compared to a plain water extract. Would hardly even need to refrigerate it. But the typically available vodka etc. runs around that percentage, to occasionally 50%, so there isn't much room for additional water, and heat would...