Posted by bengal (02/12/14 07:34 PM)
I don't understand how making tea is "somewhat of a hassle" compared to this??  You can literally just grind them up, pour hot water over them and then strain and enjoy.  I've never capsuled mushrooms, but i've capsuled other powders and its a huge pain and takes so much time and you end up always losing a fair amount in the process. Although I will say that is a clever way of loading the capsules.  
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Posted by mubba (12/19/09 02:04 AM)
I've had people tell me the mushrooms were completely ineffective using this technique. I wholeheartedly suggest that you do not go through the trouble.

It makes them take longer to kick in, it causes the potency to depend on what is in your stomach, and it makes it take much longer to start feeling it (pill capsule may remain undissolved for a long time, and after it dissolves the compacted mushroom blob takes a long time to disperse).

Go make some chocolate or something instead.
Posted by JhonnyReed (02/28/09 12:24 PM)

This is a great methood, the only thing wrong with this methood would be that all the stores I know don't sell gellcaps any more so I would have to order online. The best part is that you can hide them in the most convinent (sp?) places. Hell, you could put them in your pocket and pop one, two or however many you want when no ones looking. And like T42 said, it's a reliable dosing methood.
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Posted by T42 (12/18/06 05:30 PM)
This is the most outstanding information about preparation of Amanita muscaria that I have seen in several weeks of studying about the mushroom and taking three trips. I love your practical advice -- I would only add that I think this method creates a level of reliable dosage, because the drug is taken in powder form.

I'm awaiting arrival of my first online order of empty gelcaps -- I didn't think of a health food store.  And I'm headed to my basement workshop to create the gel cap holder!

About my trips -- the first were 5 g and 10 g, and quite enjoyable with both thought and visual enhancements, but nothing like my LSD trips of old.  The third trip, with 16 g, created full-scale nausea and vomiting, then a trip like a freight train, not unpleasant, very intense, but left me with an abiding revulsion at the scent of dried Amanita muscaria. So I can't even think of making tea.
Posted by Caduceus (12/08/06 10:11 AM)

My girlfriend can't stand eating shrooms on their own so she decided to try this, I don't mind them so I just ate them, but we found that it took her a lot longer to feel the effects than it did for me. To solve this, the next time we did them we poked holes in all the pills before she took them and our trip started at about the same time.