Does anybody know anything about different ways of taking Morning Glory seeds or even weather or not it's advisable? I've heard of several ways that all seemed not to be very effective...
Morning glory seeds did nothing for me except make my stomach feel like crap... they also taste like crap being seeds.
Theres a few ways of taking them, the most common of course is just chewing them up and swallowing them, but like Dead star says they are well known for causing stomach cramps and nausea and they taste like crap. One possible way to limit the stomach problems is to have some motilium and dramamine on stand buy (these are motion sickness and indigestion drugs available over the counter in most pharmacies). Another method is to grind the seeds up, then leave them in wayer for ten minutes to soften the powder and help with the taste then chew them with out swallowing for 30-45 mins, the LSA is absorbed through the soft tisue under you tounge. And then you can also extract the LSA, do a web search for a full discription of how to do this, check as many sources as you can find because some of them are either complete rubish or worse dangerous. The basic jist of it is. First grind up the seeds as fine as you can. Next you need a non-polar solvent, Petroleum ether for example, or Zippo lighter fluid can also be used., this is to extract the unwanted stuuf first before you extract the LSA. These are poison, extremely flamable and pottentially explosive so obviously you need to be very careful when using them. Next you want to soak the ground up seeds in the solvent, for about two or three days. Then you will have a slimy mush of seeds and solvent, filter this through a paper coffee filter to get as much of the solvent seperated form the seed mush as possible, you can repeat this step several times just to be sure. Then spread the mush out on a plate and allow it to sit out in the open air, this will evaporate the rest of the solvent, be sure that the mush is very dry and all the solvent is evaporated because like I said, its poisonous. There shouldn't be a smell of solvent of the seeds if its fully evaporated. Next you want to extract the LSA from the ground up seeds, you do this with alcohol. Ethanol preferably, but not de-natured ethanol because this is poisonous, or any extremably pure alcohol thats sold for human consumption, the purer the better the high 90% range or 100% if you can get it. Now soak the seeds in the alcohol then filter the seed/alcohol mush through new paper coffee filters, not the same ones you used the first time around and collect the liquid that passes through, do this several times, soaking the seeds in alcohol then filtering the mush through coffee filters and collecting the liquid. Now pour the liquid you have collected into a large glass tray place it in a dark place and allow the alcohol to evaporate for about two days untill there is no liquid left. You should be left with a sticky yellow residue in the glass tray, this is the LSA. Scrape it up and there you have it, nearly pure LSA the active ingridient in morning glory seeds without all the crpa that gives you stomach problems. Hope that helps. Stiney.
