SWIM is currently experiencing what he has deemed pharm-absinthe

It is simply a gel-cap full of extracted thujone, the active ingredient in wormwood.

It is very basic. all you need to do is the following:


-Put 50g of wormwood in a container with enough naptha to cover it then cap the container and submerge in a hot water bath.

-Once the mix is hot to touch take it out and shake it.
Shake it several times while it is cooling down.

-Leave for 1 day (not know how long is truely neccesary)

-After 1 day has, past pop the container into another hot-water bath until hot.

-Shake the container vigourously, Thujone is liquid, not solid so SWIM assumes this could help...

-Pour the naptha through a coffee filter, it goes through quite quickly.

-Either let the naptha evaporate at room temp or use a double boiler (in well ventilated area) to boil it off.

-Make sure all the naptha is evaporated! Then pour some warm canola oil and stir and dissolve the goo. The oil should be dark green.

- The resulting oil is active at .5 -1.5 ml SWIM finds 2x 0 gelcaps is a good dose. The oil is quite wretched so SWIM recommends capping


The experience alone for SWIM is a slight color intensifying, slight tracers and mild headspace change


The experience with alcohol as is SWIM was drunk in body but his mind was much more clear. SWIM's roomie confirmed the feeling.

SWIM is not a big fan of alcohol so he didn't end up likeing it too much, but SWIM's roomie was very ecstatic about it!


Despite SWIM's mild experience with Thujone + Alcohol and Thujone alone SWIM does believe it could have other more amazing properties in combinations.

SWIM smoked only 8-10mg of white freebase DMT 2-3 hours after injesting some thujone and it seemed the visuals were extremely enhanced almost like 20 mg.
SWIM felt his headspace change as much as would be expected for 8-10mg, but the visuals were moving EXTREMELY fast and were much less cartoony than regular DMT.

SWIM only tried this once before but wanted to mention that he is confident that the thujone effected the trip. He will test it further in the future to confirm this but SWIM is quite impressed with the results of his extraction and just wanted to share the knowledge for all.

Here's an easy method for those who like it food-grade. Dreamer once soaked wormwood in cheap vodka for two weeks (think it was 50g in 75cl, but check that). A couple of shots of this worked a treat, without any unwanted side effects, but is absolutely revoltingly bitter. So what he then did was just leave the potion in a warm dust-free environment (his airing cupboard) to reduce, which resulted in a tarry extract. This can be smeared along a cigarette paper to be smoked, or put into a gelcap.

(A tip: when the extract has reduced enough, pour it into the ziploc bag that you intend to keep it in, and place it back in the drying space with the mouth of the bag propped open. This saves all that effort having to scrape the extract off the bottom of your glass dish to bag up for storage. Remember to note the weight of the bag before adding the liquid extract so you can work out its weight once dried.)

I'm told that even easier and cheaper is just to soak then simmer the wormwood in water on low heat for half and hour in a pan with a dipped lid on top that will catch evaporate and drip it back into the centre of the potion (thujone is an aromatic oil so can be lost through evaporation). He hasn't tried this, but has been told to do it this way by someone else before, so it's worth a try- wormwood is cheap, so why spend money on vodka/alcohol that you're only going to evaporate anyway?

(Another tip: dreamer always adds a little vodka when leaving an extraction to extraction slowly, because he has found that otherwise the tea can go mouldy before it's dried. Using a fan will reduce it quicker too, but uses energy.)

Be sure to work out how many doses the quantity of wormwood will provide you with to work out how many doses of the extract you will have when you're done. Check your working a few times on different occasions to ensure you do not mess up and hurt yourself. Write the dose and working out on your bag of extract for future reference.

Just soak the Wormwood in warm pure methanol and then evaporate completely'

The resultant dark green tar can be smoked or eaten'

I dislike alcohol' and pure methanol is seriously cheap'

Bliss!

Nobu +

I'm soaking this wormwood in ethanol, do a filter the liquid to discard the powder ?

you could probly do the same with mugwort...it's all thujone.

Personally i'd be careful with that extract, it can be quite toxic at larger doses. For now I'll stick to my mugwort tea and occasional tincture for lucid dreaming.

peace
SB

I look for some lucid dreaming herbal, I have this 50 grams wormwood soaking, they were a free gift, so I'll give it a try, but there are many herbs working on the subtle level I'd like to give a go.
I knew calea, but the silene camensis taste so nice compared to it, there is this GUAYUSA, have you heard of it ? I wonder how it's work ... And you how do you do with mugwort ?

Yeah wormwood extract works great smoked, but if you don't get all the crud out of the resin you make, it tastes so incredibly bad. And the taste doesn't leave your mouth very easily. It takes a lot of swishing with strong juices to clear it out of my mouth anyhow..but the buzz from it is very much like a clear minded thc buzz. But, I've since learned that working with salvia officionalis is much easier to get the same thujone buzz that wormwood has. salvia o. has a much higher thujone content and it doesn't taste bad at all. In fact it's a kitchen spice and you can get plants easily at your local garden shop probably. Both wormwood and salvia o. work great as stash extenders too as they potentiate the weed high very nicely.