Lo-Z said:

I ate 0.5g of PE on Sunday and I was actually impressed with how..... weird I got. Always been interested in making a tea.

A buddy of mine ALWAYS pukes when he eats them. Does Tea and or Lemon tek help the stomach at all? I've hear a lot of people cant handle the chiton and it makes them sick to their stomachs. I want to eat some shrooms with him but hes always scared of the puking.

Any tips on that?

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It’s not chitin it’s the serotonin receptors in your tummy, eating ginger helps because it binds to those receptors

Capsules definitely help and if it’s all too much you can always boof some tea


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Copy of comment with jazz (not my own):

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“Shroom contain chitin, the stomach has a harder time digesting that.”

Chitin causing nausea is a myth, it’s a beneficial dietary fiber that is in literally all edible mushrooms, it is not causing the nausea psilocybin is.. Dietary fibers do not even need to be broken down though humans do have two different types of chitinase enzymes that can break down chitin, AMCase and CHIT1.

“many studies now confirm that POTENT CHITINASES do occur in vertebrates, including humans, and ARE ABUNDANT IN THE HUMAN GUT" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0928468018300233

"Humans, along with many other primates, have a functional gene for this enzyme, so it's possible that we can actually process chitin in our guts. That said, even if we couldn't, it would just get passed through our system, just like the cellulose in celery and other vegetables." https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32GB9GE

“Chitin contains 90.6% of total dietary fiber (Maezaki, Yamazaki, Mizuochi, & Tsuji, 1993) and it can be defined as a functional food component providing special benefits to food, for instance contributing to colonic health, coronary artery health, and cholesterol reduction amongst many others“ https://archive.ph/YVBET

Psilocybin/psilocin work on serotonin receptors and ~95% of our bodies serotonin is located in the digestive system where one of its functions is the chemical signal for nausea. That is the the real cause of the stomach discomfort from psychedelic mushrooms, and also why it is common in the studies that use synthesized psilocybin.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3919396/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014299913007589

https://psychedelicreview.com/binding-of-psilocin-and-psilocybin-to-serotonin-receptors

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fontinalis666 said:

On another note, if you pick up some of them nice crackly cap dried donko shiitake from the asian market next time you reup on agar powder, and reconstitute them in a soy/golden mountain/black vinegar solution(bring liquid up to a boil and pour over dried mush in a container with a lid) you end up with some siiiiiiick pickled mushrooms. Slice em thin and put them in everything. Especially good in ramen. Almost have the texture of cooked clams or some other shellfish.

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