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by UrsusSapiens » Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:39 pm
Well, you did nothing really wrong....
Method one produced an ibotenic acid tea. The first pass effect in your liver reduced the amount of active reagents in your body so much, that this result was to be expected.
Method two was actually quite promising, IF the batch size had been bigger.
Method three, a bit complicated, but in itself correct. Just suffered from the same problem as method two.
I guess, your mushrooms are not that potent. With a potency variation of up to 500%, you really should make a larger batch, and establish a reference dosage.
There are just 2 way of finding out:
1. Try in small increasing steps. Start small and work round to your "psychoactive" dose. That is your reference dosage for this batch and only for this batch. You will have to determine your reference dosage for every single batch you produce. This method especially applies to the DMSO route, since it could be quite dangerous to boil DMSO solutions down.
2. Filter the extract as good as you can (at least through a coffee filter), then boil the extract down until you get a weighable dry residue. If you weigh this residue, you could get a good estimation, how potent your extraction is, but you need a decent milligram scale. The dry residue is very storable and could be very easily brought into solution again, and this time, you have a better idea about the potency.
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