My First Amanita Muscaria Tea Prep (with Stringy Goo).
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:16 am
My very first Amanita Muscaria tea prep (with stringy goo).
Well I made my first AM solution the other day. But I had a bit of a surprise when I added the alcohol – I’ll explain.
The Amanitas I used were from my very first batch I harvested last October. This batch being my first batch I dried over a convector heater, and burned subsequently – I got a fruit dehydrator for my other batches so they are okay.
For the purpose of microdosing for pain relief, I added 15g of these dried burned AMs to a saucepan of 250ml (one cup) of distilled simmering water, and simmered for 30 minutes.
I deliberately did not top up the saucepan with more water as it evaporated, and was therefore left with about 50ml tea solution in the pan.
I decanted this into a sieve over a beaker, and then through a coffee filter. This last took ages, about three hours – I must get thinner more porous coffee filters next time.
Then I added 200ml of 95% proof vodka, 'Spirytus Duch Puszczy', a Polish vodka not found in your local supermarket. You will have to get it online or order it from a specialist wine & spirit merchant. I choose this high alcohol percentage because I don’t want it to go off too quickly.
This is when the surprise happened. The 50ml extract looked clear enough before I added the vodka, but as soon as the vodka was added, the vodka solution went cloudy.
I stirred it with a spoon, and when I pulled the spoon out of the beaker, this grey ball of stringy goo was attached to the spoon, leaving the solution in the beaker clear again.
I decanted the solution in four bottles; three plastic bottles for storage in the freezer compartment, and a fourth, a glass eyedropper bottle for daily use.
The following day in the morning I took one drop of AM tea in a about one or two ml concentrated lemon juice, the sort of lemon juice you use on pancakes. Left it for a couple of minutes for the ibotenic acid to covert to muscimol before topping up the shot-glass with a bit more water to make it less sour, and down the hatch it went.
I didn’t notice mush, so after two hours I took another drop, and hurrah, it works. Within about fifteen minutes I had pain relief . This only lasted about an hour or so before the pain crept back again.
Before going to bed I took three drops of the solution in lemon, and had a pain free sleep for the first time in ages.
Today, two days on, I have upped the dose to 6 dropped a time, in the morning, early evening, and before going to bed.
I’ve had no stomach upsets or nausea, which I didn’t expect anyway, not with micro dosing.
The pain relief last till about the next dose, and I do get this kind of pleasant cosy feeling, bodily and visually, with these six drops.
I’ll keep upping the dose over the days, for experimental reasons, to see what the effects will be, and what my comfortable limit is with this particular burnt batch.
I do wonder though, what that grey stringy goo was all about – anyone have any ideas on that?
I’m off to bed now.
Rebis,
PS. I do realise now, that my Amanita tea is not a tea, but a tincture.
Well I made my first AM solution the other day. But I had a bit of a surprise when I added the alcohol – I’ll explain.
The Amanitas I used were from my very first batch I harvested last October. This batch being my first batch I dried over a convector heater, and burned subsequently – I got a fruit dehydrator for my other batches so they are okay.
For the purpose of microdosing for pain relief, I added 15g of these dried burned AMs to a saucepan of 250ml (one cup) of distilled simmering water, and simmered for 30 minutes.
I deliberately did not top up the saucepan with more water as it evaporated, and was therefore left with about 50ml tea solution in the pan.
I decanted this into a sieve over a beaker, and then through a coffee filter. This last took ages, about three hours – I must get thinner more porous coffee filters next time.
Then I added 200ml of 95% proof vodka, 'Spirytus Duch Puszczy', a Polish vodka not found in your local supermarket. You will have to get it online or order it from a specialist wine & spirit merchant. I choose this high alcohol percentage because I don’t want it to go off too quickly.
This is when the surprise happened. The 50ml extract looked clear enough before I added the vodka, but as soon as the vodka was added, the vodka solution went cloudy.
I stirred it with a spoon, and when I pulled the spoon out of the beaker, this grey ball of stringy goo was attached to the spoon, leaving the solution in the beaker clear again.
I decanted the solution in four bottles; three plastic bottles for storage in the freezer compartment, and a fourth, a glass eyedropper bottle for daily use.
The following day in the morning I took one drop of AM tea in a about one or two ml concentrated lemon juice, the sort of lemon juice you use on pancakes. Left it for a couple of minutes for the ibotenic acid to covert to muscimol before topping up the shot-glass with a bit more water to make it less sour, and down the hatch it went.
I didn’t notice mush, so after two hours I took another drop, and hurrah, it works. Within about fifteen minutes I had pain relief . This only lasted about an hour or so before the pain crept back again.
Before going to bed I took three drops of the solution in lemon, and had a pain free sleep for the first time in ages.
Today, two days on, I have upped the dose to 6 dropped a time, in the morning, early evening, and before going to bed.
I’ve had no stomach upsets or nausea, which I didn’t expect anyway, not with micro dosing.
The pain relief last till about the next dose, and I do get this kind of pleasant cosy feeling, bodily and visually, with these six drops.
I’ll keep upping the dose over the days, for experimental reasons, to see what the effects will be, and what my comfortable limit is with this particular burnt batch.
I do wonder though, what that grey stringy goo was all about – anyone have any ideas on that?
I’m off to bed now.
Rebis,
PS. I do realise now, that my Amanita tea is not a tea, but a tincture.