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themanicmaniac
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Question about chacruna and caapi resin
#26522383 - 03/07/20 03:15 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I bought (I think) 500g of this a few months ago and was told cook it for 1-2 hours with a 1 to 1 water ratio. I did 2 hours at the time and spent several months working with that to my own personal benefit.
I recently bought from the same source 55g and added in significantly more water. But more importantly I did less cooking time. I only did 45 minutes. I did this because I was worried if I did it for a longer period it would simmer away. Thing is, the person I bought it from who is indeed an authentic healer connected to a Peruvian shamanic tradition. But he is pretty hard to get good instructions out of. He is difficult to communicate with at a verbal level because he is quite dumb and has trouble following the conversation. I've seen him have trouble with simple math.
When I cooked it for a lesser amount of time, it's because I thought that when it is first made in Peru, that is when the ingredients are chemically activated. It is then shrunk into a solid and shipped to America as resin. I thought when recooking the resin, I was simply turning it from a solid to a liquid, rather than chemically reactivating the ingredients. Apparently this isn't the case.
I want to know if adding in the extra hour or so of heat now will complete the chemical activation process or whether it won't work because the thing has been sitting for a while and one needed to do the cooking all at once. I also want to know if anyone has experience in resin more generally, and I am right in my thinking about the issue of whether or not it is chemically active.
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Sabnock
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Re: Question about chacruna and caapi resin [Re: themanicmaniac]
#26522565 - 03/07/20 05:34 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Did you filter anything out or did it all dissolve into the liquid? If you filtered something out, that may be what's going on, but i would think that the paste/resin would dissolve in the water just fine, i mean there could've been some insoluble sediment/gunk but idk if filtering that out would make a difference or not, i know i've read where people say that keeping the sediment in the brew and shaking up the brew right before pouring a dose helps to keep things potent.
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themanicmaniac
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Re: Question about chacruna and caapi resin [Re: themanicmaniac]
#26522633 - 03/07/20 06:22 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I didn't filter anything out. The stuff on the bottom seems slightly denser than the stuff on top but it's not sediment. I did have some sediment in previous batches so I know what it looks like. I have to assume that 45 minutes time cooking was not enough to activate it. But if I had cooked for the full two hours I think most of it would have simmered away.
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Re: Question about chacruna and caapi resin [Re: themanicmaniac]
#26522813 - 03/07/20 08:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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themanicmaniac said: I didn't filter anything out. The stuff on the bottom seems slightly denser than the stuff on top but it's not sediment. I did have some sediment in previous batches so I know what it looks like. I have to assume that 45 minutes time cooking was not enough to activate it. But if I had cooked for the full two hours I think most of it would have simmered away.
In that case simply add more water, or use a small pot, or cut down heat a little maybe.
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