I originally posted this on Shroomery last week, but felt that people over here would find it interesting. 1st time Ayahuasca trip report. Last weekend I took ayahuasca for the first time. I cooked it up about 6 months ago and put it in the freezer waiting for the right time to take it. I was really a bit scared to try it. I was planning on making 2 batches so I used 100g B Caapi and 20g MHRB. I cooked them seperately in a crock pot with about a gallon of water and some lemon juice. After straining out the plant material I added a pack of gelatin to each and reduced to a drinkable amount over a low fire while stirring and removing out all of the gunk that the gelatin pulled out. The gelatin didn't do much for the caapi brew, but I pulled a lot of stuff out of the MHRB brew. Then I stuck them in the freezer and forgot about them. Several months later I unfroze them to break them down into doses. Some nagging feeling was telling me that the MHRB dose was way too high, so I split it into thirds rather than half, each dose about 7g MHRB rather than 10g. Then I refroze them and forgot about them. Last night I decided was the time to take the, and it was really spur of the moment. I took the Caapi at 7:15 pm and was really feeling effects from it when it was time to take the MHRB at 7:45. Since it was my first time and I was doing it solo, I thought that it would be prudent to cut the MHRB dose in half, this turned out to be a good idea. They didn't taste near as bad as I feared, I guess drinking cactus juice and pod tea desensitizes you to foul tasting concoctions. I started tripping around 8:30 and I was really nervous at first, since this was my first time I had no idea how intense things would get. I figured out that slow deep breathing worked really good for keeping things calm and after 45 minutes I lost all nervousness and was able to relax and enjoy it. I tripped pretty good for 2 hours but never went into deep hyper space since I reduced the dose. It was slightly more intense than one hit of really good clean acid. By 10:30 I could tell that I was coming down, so I set up a folding chair and table in the backyard and had a cigar and glass of absinthe. When I came back in about midnight I was just feeling the Caapi afterglow so I got on shroomery and started playing youtubes from the psychill thread for an hour and went to bed. I was still feeling a lingering Caapi afterglow when I woke up, but it's mostly gone now. It was a hell of a good trip once I got past the nervousness and the gelatin eliminated the purge, I didn't have any nausea at all.
nice i havnt heard of the gelatin idea. I had some mimosa hostilis and syrian roo at an Ozric Tentacles concert (basically the same stuff but the trip has a different vibe from what i hear). I purged pretty hard but after that it was an awesome trip. Got done purging right as the opening band was done so the timing was perfect.
It sounds like the mimosa you purchased wasn't potent. http://salvialight.com/itemordermimosa.htm this is a cheap lookin site but the mimosa is good quality. if you drank 10g of this you would go farther than you did.
it wasnt my mimosa, it was a buddys. But it deffinitely felt pretty potent, it was probably the most intense trip of my life unitl recently when i smoked some that we extracted from the same order of mimosa that we made the tea with.
I originally prepared 10g for a dose, but decided to lower the dosage since it was my first time taking ayahuasca. I ended up taking around 4g.
I've read trip reports on how wild it can get, I just didn't want to go too far out on something I hadn't done before. If I had taken the whole dose of MHRB I would have taken a wild ride.
Smoking it is intense. drinking it with maoi is LONG....if you dont like where you are, well too damn bad...Although super mega vomiting does seem to cool it off...
