I'd like to hear from anyone who has crushed / grinded up Calea Zacatechichi and put it into capsules and taken them.
1) How many grams did you take?
2) Did it hurt your stomach? I'm really concerned about getting a horrendous stomach ache if I take, say, ten grams. Your thoughts?
3) How soon before bed did you take it?
4 )And of course...what effect did all of this have on your dreams?
Thanks
-Ben
1) 1 to 3 grams (divided to + - 6 caps)
2) nope not at all
3) just before I went to sleep
4) depended on the recall of course, but imho it did
use a blender! so you can put more in one cap...
I bought this one too (i'm a herbfreak anyway)
http://www.wonderlabs.com/images/cn19.jpg
But you can manage without :)
Eh. Am I the only person here who actually likes the taste of Calea Tea? I mean, I know it's incredibly bitter and metallic, but if you can get past that, it's actually quite nice...
but no, I haven't tried encapsulating it.
No, you're not :)Quote:
Originally Posted by The
Actually I like the smell and the flavour of the tea very much (can't say about
the smoke).
The bitterness you just have to filter out. The astonishing thing is: after a while,
I could sort of block the sensation of the bitterness just in my mind. It sounds
unbelievable, but it's possible.
Christian Rätsch once said in a lecture he met a shaman who was able to
disable the effects of alcohol just by using a mantra before drinking it. And he
(the shaman) drank quite a lot.
I had very good results with Calea and nicotine (as a patch) in combination btw.
I've now crushed up 10 grams and painstakingly placed it into capsules. This took 2 hours! It was much more tedious than I expected.
I think I'll wait until tomorrow night to take them. I'm pretty exhausted right now.
BTW; about the shaman who could resist the effects of alcohol by reciting a mantra yet he still "drank quite a lot." Why would you drink a lot if you never felt the effects? :) :)
THANK YOU!!!!! This is exactly how I feel, you've summed it up quite nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by lucidus
Have yet to try the smoke though, but I will. I'm getting a huge pound package of the unextracted leaf coming this week, and I will.
Well that was f*cking disappointing. Took 5 grams two nights in a row and... nothing! Look for a disappointing yet thorough report coming soon.
BenQ: Calea is a strange substance, in that it works on the principle of "reverse tolerance", which means, the more times you have taken it, the more sensitive you get to it - to a certain point, of course.
This results in a weirdsituation where sometimes you have to take it for a number of nights in a row, on your first try, to "break through" your tolerance. After that, it will work fine. Also, I'd suggest the tea and the joints rather than the capsules, fo your first try, simple because they're more fail-safe.
Whats a good site/store to buy this from?
Blue Meanie - I tried smoking it and drank the tea before the capsules. I had mixed results with the first 2 methods, but was really expecting something grand with the capsules.
Zaltoa - I got mine from iamshaman.com. With shipping it was about $10 for 28 oz. Great company - fast & professional.
Ten bucks for 28 ounces doesn;'t sound right, Ben. Are you sure you got that right? It's just that, I order from iamshaman too, and that doesn't sound like the right price.
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by BenQ
I think the amount of alcohol he drank was so huge, every other person would have fallen into coma..
But for him it was just like having a good glass of whisky ;)
Why he did that? We would have to ask him directly. Shamans do strange things (and lucid dreamers drink calea tea) :)
Blue Meanie - whoops. 28 GRAMS for $10 bucks sounds more accurate, eh?? Good catch.