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  • Mateo@lemmy.worldtoShrooms@lemmy.world•Is discussion in this community limited to Psilocybe mushrooms or are Amanita varieties such as Muscaria also permitted?English
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    1 year ago

    Have you tried A. muscaria yet? I got some because I hoped they’d make a good alcohol replacement, anti-anxiety med, and oneirogen (dream enhancer).

    As an alcohol replacement… due to its chemistry and effects on GABA, it *might *work that way, but it can’t be used as often as booze :( Ime, it’s like being tipsy or drunk, but more clear-headed and expansive. Quite dissociating. Mixed with cannabis, I got some faint, but complex visualizations similar to DXM. (Ability to more easily visualize 3d objects, with rotation and on-the-fly editing, but strange, otherworldly structures.) Again, visuals were very faint, like a watermark.

    Its anti-anxiety properties might be too good. So much so, that my mind was much more blank weeks after dosing. Not optimal if I want proper mental function.

    It didn’t really help as a dream enhancer.

    I feel I should also mention how they taste. They have a savory, umami flavor, like MSG. This shouldn’t be too surprising, since ibotenic acid acts on the glutamate receptors, and somehow our taste buds are able to pick that up.

    All in all, I don’t trust A. muscaria at this point in time, because ibotenic acid supposedly passes the blood-brain barrier (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7977045/) and may cause excitotoxic neuronal death. (In lab experiments, ibotenic acid has been injected directly into animal brains to kill brain cells.) However, proper decarboxylation might render this mushroom completely safe.