Ibex-Trismegistus said:

Yeah, I mentioned this earlier about kykeon.

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There was a theory that ergot infected rye was used to brew a beer, and that this "ergot beer" was "Kykeon", the psychedelic drink consumed at eleusis.

So, others began to ask "if this ergotized beer was Kykeon, than how did it not gain a reputation of danger? A reputation of producing seizures, vasoconstriction, necrosis, and other features of ergotism?

The response was "a hot oil was floated on top of the ergotized beer, and was then removed, this layer of hot oil would remove all the convulsive or dangerous alkaloids while leaving the psychoactive compounds.

This is all just theory of coarse, I think it was Gordon wasson in "the road to eleusis" where this is discussed.

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