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doozieman
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Coleus: the calming and euphoric plant
#18811864 - 09/07/13 02:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well this is my first post on the forms. I realize that coleus has already had a few threads in the past but apon seeing that nobody had posted on them in a while I decided to give my two cents on coleus preperation and use.
Actives:Many say that coleus is extremely mild or not active at all. Others say that it depends on the good genetics of the plant specimen that you have. Well i have to disagree with this. I beleive that like salvia it is in fact a terpenoid that is responsible for the effects. It is also my beleif that the red and yellow color found in the leaves are mainly due to the active constitute(s) and can be used as a relativly sure way to tell if their are good amounts of the terpenoid.
Growing and cultivation: The coleus blumei species are extremely easy to grow and mainly just require some shade and water every day or two.growing them outside greatly improves the potency from my expirience(possibly just poor lighting inside). There are to main ways to cultivate. You can pick a few leaves of each plant you have(older leaves towards the bottom harm the plant the least)Or you can up root the whole plant once fully grown and just remove the stem leaving the leaves and roots, though the second option is used mainly for tea.
Preperation and use: I have no expirience in making the tea so ill skip straight to smoking preperation. The simplist way of course is to just pick some leaves, dry em, then smoke em down. This gives a slightly sedative body buzz with relatively clear mental effects that slowly get foggy with larger amounts. The second way is two make a more potent form. The following is the procedure i used. Things needed, -15 grams of dried fresh but dry foilage(meaning dry but having been picked within a day or so of the extraction -30 ml of acetone -fine mesh strainer or coffee filter(remember no plastic!) -glass jars and shallow evap bowl Start by setting aside 1 gram of the fifteen as the evap material. then take the 14 grams and cover them in acetone and set to extract for 30 min, making sure that the acetone doesn't evap to much. strain out the plant material and let the acetone reach about the five ml mark. add the last gram. have a fan blow over the bowl while you stir constantly, trying to capture all the acetone in the last gram. completely dry.
Effects: the first effects are felt at about the 20 second mark. A light buzz that starts in the chest slowly grows stronger and spreads throughout the body. Visual effects are strange and mild light changes such as color hue change and very mild cevs and oevs at higher doses. Quite sedative and euphoric.
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doozieman
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Re: Coleus: the calming and euphoric plant [Re: doozieman]
#18811867 - 09/07/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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sorry if this is under the wrong category. mods feel free to move if you find neccesairy
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Dawks
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Re: Coleus: the calming and euphoric plant [Re: doozieman]
#18892718 - 09/26/13 05:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for this information man! This is a plant I've not personally experimented with but have been aware for a long time that it may have mild but pleasant effects.
I'm sure I'll try it one day myself and probably use your enhanced leaf method.
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