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Wiccan-Seeker, the mod who stickied this experiment of mine, tried with abscorbic acid and had very comparable results to lemon.

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I used a fluid ounce (30ml) of 5% vitamin C in water and got a whopping 4-5x potentiation, and I used 25ml of supermarket lemon juice



and got 2-3x potentiation.

But now things will get weird, very weird.
Yeserday I took my (empty stomach) morning coffee and mixed in the brewed coffee a heaping tablespoon of ascorbic acid (3-5gr) to see if potentiation by organic acids was perhaps universal.
Now this cup, taken on an empty stomach without milk) contained approximately 200 mg caffeine an amount I know thoroughly. Could it be potentiated?

And it was. My morning mug was quite stimulating, I got a chest-pressure and had a vomit bucket sitting next to the desk because I was so nauseous from the caffeine overstimulation.

I aborted it with 200mg Lithium carbonate (Lithium knocks stimulants flat, I have a few tabs lying around for cases like this) and within 45 minutes the chest-presure and nausea subsided *exactly as it would if they were overstimulation side effects* in very drastic relief. (pharmacologcal confirmation)

So kids: the acid hypothesis holds true and this is BIGGER than Psilocybin alone. Fruit acids (lemon/cranberry juice and 5% ascorbic acid)

This might mean that another herbal people try to conserve, poppyhead tea, may be potently (perhaps dangerously) enhanced by adding a heaping teaspoon to the tea. Probably one of the next experiments would be ascorbic/lemon taken with MDMA. do not try this at home kids!

So it goes further than Psilocybin and it alters the properties of BREWED coffee, meaning if added AFTER extraction.
I banged out 15 kilobytes of .txt before stimulant sickness overcame me.

I was reminded of how mineral supplements are best absorbed if they are bound to organic acids (for instance Zinc citrate vs the ZnCl2 formed from ZnO in the stomach) and how this somehow bypasses stomach acidity according to some study) which is the reason these are incorporated into mineral supplements.

The most common supplement acids are gluconic acid and citric acid, which are analogous to ascorbic acid and lemon juice respectively.

We are definately on to something big here.