Amanita Research Forum

Muscimol is quite stable concerning the chloride ions in water. LSD (or other ergotamines for that matter) are a completely different "cup of tea"

Hi ICY! Please discriminate between "making the mushroom storable" and "converting ibotenic acid to muscimol". Drying and freeze-drying MAINLY makes the mushrooms storable (with the caveat that drying above 70 degree celsisus DO convert a small part of the ibotenic acid into muscimol, but not very r...

in: MYCOTAXON Volume 107, pp. 419–430 January–March 2009
http://amanitaceae.org/content/uploaded ... coacta.pdf

Title:Amanita muscaria (fly agaric): from a shamanistic hallucinogen to the search for acetylcholine Abstract: The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is widely distributed throughout continental Europe and the UK. Its common name suggests that it had been used to kill flies, until superseded by ...

A whole web site about the Amanitaceae....
http://amanitaceae.org/

Abstract: The constituents of seven mushrooms sold as Amanita muscaria or Amanita pantherina (five A. muscaria and two A. pantherina) and four ‘‘extracts purported to contain A. muscaria’’ products that are currently circulated in Japan were determined. All mushroom samples were identified as A. mus...

in: Mycological Research
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756203007305
online from David Moores web page

Why don't you adjust the amount of mushroom in the tea? Don't take 15g, take 1.5g, that would be one serving, and you can brew it always fresh....

Found on Oct. 10th at the border of a spruce forest near Trier, Germany.

On my first trip, I wouldn't fly solo. The first time on ANY psychoactive substance is always with a sitter for me. It's just safer. But that's just my opinion and my way. I don't know, how experienced you are with other substances....