Extracting Psilocybin

[SweeperOfDreams13]

Is there a way to extract psilocybin from mushrooms?
I'd really like to have the great shroom trip without all the nausea and such.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[EllisDTripp]

http://www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/psilocin.extraction.html

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/adsarchive/extraction.htm

http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Extraction/extract5.html

[SweeperOfDreams13]

Thank you Ellis!
:D

[JohnnyATL]

I also heard you can put some mushrooms into honey and you can just eat the honey. Im not sure about all the specifics on that one though

[Fractual_]

i've heard that too about honey, it is supposed to turn purple or something...

[EllisDTripp]

i've heard that too about honey, it is supposed to turn purple or something...


Blue, actually....

http://www.bluehoney.org/BlueTale.htm

[Ediction421]

I used to make mushroom honey all the time. It works great, just brew it up or slap some on an english muffin and you're ready to go. I remember my test subject didn't even believe me and ended up ditching me for some potential pussy. Thing's didn't work out for him, to say the least, too bad.Only slight drawback is that you have to wait for days for the honey to properly saturate itself. Try and saturate it with as much psilocybin as possible, for best effects...

[shroomman]

whats better to use for honey...fresh or dry shrooms? will any honey work? can you let shrooms sit in any liquid for amount of time and will it extract the psilocybin?

[geckopelli]

Realize that NO extraction is 100% efficent.

EAT THE FUCKING 'SHROOMS!

[Fractual_]

kewl link ellis

[shroomman]

anyone know?

[EllisDTripp]

The shrooms MUST be dried, and AFAIK, any kind of honey will work.

Psilocybin will extract into just about any polar liquid, but honey is a good medium because it prevents bacterial growth and spoilage. It also has a slightly acidic pH, which helps the psilocybin go into solution.

[madboy139]

are you serious you can just soak the shrooms in honey and then eat the honey? that's fucking awesome. how much honey should i use for an oz of shrooms?

[gnrm23]

white vinegar just might be the way to go...

[JamminOTR]

Just wanted to tahnk you for putting that link up there and for the info on blue honey....I freakin love the thought a a psychadelic peanutbutter and honey sandwich. A little testing is certainly in order...I wonder if Maple Syrup would work too. :D

[shroomman]

so your sayin i can put them in any liquid, like water or soda or sumpthin and wait till it extracts and then just drink it???
and how long do you wait...how do you know its all extracted???

[EllisDTripp]

Put them in any mildly acidic solution, and you will extract psilocybin. You will NEVER get a 100% extraction with a technique this simple, though.

[mycoguy]

ya, white vinegar doesn't seem to set my taste buds straight. but then....i suppose it could be evaporated off. I think I ran into an article that mentioned using lemon juice

[bigeyedfish870]

that blue honey does sound really good! I'll have to try that when the next batch of boomers hits the town :) can't wait

[psilonaut]

Sounds like too much work to me... I've never had a problem eating the things...

[DrDooblittle]

EAT THE FUCKING 'SHROOMS!
couldnt have said it better :)

[delirious]

YAAAAHHHHH Muchsrooms! YAAAAAAA drugs!!!


I love life. :D

[unconcerned]

that guy cant be amish.......he has compact discs....

[whiterabbit]

hhahhaha what a retard

[Spelunker]

Blue honey is my preferred method...
always fast for a while beforehand, and avoid dairy b4 the trip...
I eat the honey by itself - and use eucalyptus infused honey if I have it
honey isn't good for long-term storage tho...
honey is the money $$$

[gnrm23]

dried (or at least partly-dried) mushrooms are preferred...
if you just dunk a bunch of fresh mushrooms into a jar of honey, the water in the shrooms will dilute the sugars in the honey below the typical 95+% sugar (mostly dextrose & fructose) concentration & the stuff in the jar will all be subject to contamination - anything from seriously funky (& maybe even dangerous) molds & such, to unhygenic (& unappealing) li'l buggy things that were in the fresh shrooms (but don't much seem to be found in well-dried shrooms)...
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(science note: pure honey will generally not support microbial growth... spores & such may be there, but will not become active until the honey is diluted... & then it may be a race between bacteria & yeasts to see what colonization happens first...
part of it is just the fact that 5% H2O is not enough for many microorganism to thrive; but part of it is that there are enzymes & other strange chemicals found in honey (& other bee products like propolis) which just inhibit molds & such...)
(honey & propolis & beeswax & other apiary products are often used in folk medicine & traditional healing regimens)
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now, herbal honeys from bees with hives in the middle of vast fields (or, better, greenhouses?) of nice plants (well, coca, hempflower, poppies all come to mind... or maybe mimosa hostilis, or caapi, or kratom, or qat... you get the idea) might be very interesting to sample...
& did you know that bees collect & store pollen right there in the hive? yummy stuff...
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it may even be possible for bees to gather honey or pollen from plants that don't (immediately?) kill the bees ( --- or the plants may contain chemicals which are poisonous to mammals but not to insects; whatever...), but could be bad news (toxic) for humans to ingest...
(there was some sort of toxic honey implicated in a mass poisoning reported in the literature in greece or persia like 2600 years ago...)

[weirdidiot2003]

ok. lets say that i want to go out and pick mushrooms. but i dont know which mushroom is which. is the honey trick a good idea for determining if the lil shroom is psychoactive? or is it a different chemical that turns the honey blue? if i pick one at random from a field and the honey DOES turn blue, should i eat it? or can it still be poisonous?

[ben]

does this mean its possible to extract psilocybin, crystalive it and i.v it?

not sayin i want to do it at all, but it would be nuts.

[dangermoose]

okay so now you got honey is a jar with a bunch of mushrooms in it...how do you get the mushrooms out without taking a bunch of potent honey with them?