Has anyone worked with chali in powder form? I've never brewed with any kind of powder. Could one simply place 5 g of it in capsules to consume?

Ideally yes. That would be a feasable way of ingesting it. However, the capsules dissolve at an irregular rate and absorption time will be much slower since the body has to extract alks from plant matter instead of a fluid. I personally find encapsulating leaves works quite well especially when powdered.

If you're so inclined, why not do an extraction on chali and consume the extract? Nausea would be greatly reduced and it would go down the same way a tea would but would be much easier on the gut. However, fluids are absorbed/digested faster in the stomach than solids but making tea with powdered plants is a pain IME because of difficulty filtering and particulates being in the final tea So it may be wiser to use gel caps in such a situation.

All the best,
-Godsmacker

Thanks godsmacker

I had some actual leaves as well, 5 g of which with 6 g of p harmala, lead me to a pretty eye opening experience. I love this plant. I purged within 15 min, and quite a bit btw, but it was very powerful. As I've heard others say, it seems to be more about feeling and being than about visions. It kept coming back to: just be

Sounds okay as an experience. You're so brave taking all in raw material form.
Now 6 gr of rue is something out of the ordinary for the regular potency of seeds, 4 gr is more than enough for the job and any excess will turn into pure body load.
This raw plant material, the leafs and the seeds, is really body burdening stuff, ideal for people who like to purge their bowels from the inside to the outside. It's not for nothing they started to brew the material in water, and still in that case it's hard on the body.

Yeah I should have specified that I did brew them. And 6 g of rue is just my preferred amount, I think there's something to this body load. It seems to be some sort of higher vibration perhaps. People just aren't used to it

Yes you had me on a wrong leg, this thread being one about raw intake

4 or 6 gr rue, these numbers are actually only partly telling, as the method used (powdered or whole seeds as biggest factor) is largely responsible for how much actives really got inside the body. I hear you definitely about rue, yes there is this very active signal coming from it.

Caapi as well, I can feel it in both, especially the next day after the light wears off.

Maybe we could edit the title of this thread