does anyone else find pharma more nausea inducing than normal ayahuasca?

No, I find the plant based brews to induce purging more than harmine/dmt.

Caapi espicially seems to bring on "La Purga" quite efficiently.

Harmaline is the breakdown product of harmine due to heat or other factors, correct? Because I believe harmaline has always treated me best. Taken the seeds in capsules is what I believe has been the most vicious.

The DMT end is troubling, as seemingly the only acceptable means of ingestion is in freebase by smoking or in salt crystal form (which is a little tasking) by encapsulating or maybe by insuffulation. The harmala end isn't too difficult, as there are many ways to eliminate the nausea it tends to induce; the only way to eliminate taste factor is by freeing the product and encapsulating, though.

Too much belly-burble with freebase.

I am able to get full on DMT effects at very low doses when used in pharmahuasca.

200 mg of harmine + 30 mg of DMT is enough for me to get very decent visionary effects. That's high on the harmine side for me, which is how I prefer it. At just 200 mg of harmine alone, I get closed eye visions. When 30 mg of DMT is added I also get open eye visions. DMT also smoothes out the harmine experience. DMT seems to clarify harmine’s effects making the trip more clear headed and the visions much more colorful.

I weigh about 280-290 pounds and I never fast, follow any diets of any kind before, during, or after taking pharmahuasca.

I don’t smoke. Tobacco contains b-carbolines and may cause smokers to need more harmine for it to be effective.

I also don’t drink alcohol. I have nothing against it, I just don’t like it.

I don’t smoke marijuana or take any other drugs regularly except I drink coffee everyday (sometime during a pharmahuasca trip) and I smoke freebase bufotenine at least 5-10 times a month (sometimes during a pharmahuasca trip).

I eat just about every king of food there is, and the only think that makes me nauseated during a pharmahuasca trip is chocolate. I don’t know why, but nothing else makes me nauseated. I can eat pretty much anything during the effects and my stomach is just fine.

Recently I’ve been taking pharmahuasca about 4 times a year. It’s not as often as I used to (about 4 times a month). I don’t have the time for it recently. I’m just too busy, so I prefer smoking freebase bufotenine (5-HO-DMT) instead.

I keep reading about people using 100 mg DMT and up in pharmahuasca. That's TOO MUCH for me! At 50 mg of DMT + 200 mg of harmine, I get enveloped in the experience and I’m beginning to lose control.

What accounts for such huge variations in dosage of pharmahuasca?

Jungle ayahuasca usually has about 150 mg of b-carbolines and 30 mg of DMT and most jungle users get plenty of effects from that.

Why do some people need 100 mg DMT or more?

and here lies one of the mysteries of pharmahuasca.. Mostly everyone taking pure extracted dmt says that a higher amount is needed compared to the reported ayahuasca dosages (Ott is the one that mentions this 30mg number ).. So why is that? There are a few possible reasons..

1- In normal ayahuasca sessions, people generally take more than one dosage. In santo daime, for example, it is generally at least 3 doses during a night.. So ppl are not limited to one 30mg, but to, say, 60 or 90mg or more... Whereas in pharmahuasca people take it all at once

2-In general, the b-carboline dosages in ayahuasca are quite strong, which may account to even less dmt being destroyed, or to a psychoactive effect of it´s own

3- One could also suppose that there is more to ayahuasca than the ´extracted purified principles´, that the whole synergy of the plants are responsible for stronger trips even in lower dosages..

4- Maybe people taking crystals dont have them purified enough, as compared to the accurate analysis where the ´30mg number in normal ayahuasca dosage´ came from.. Think about recrystallization, how one can lose half the amount of DMT depending on how yellow it is.. so maybe if everyone had very pure dmt the dosage would be closer to the reported analyzed one...

or maybe some other reasons one can think of... Fact is, it IS in general reported that more is necessary in extracted oral dmt... an interesting thing to research more about.

Also maybe SWIM thought that in the ayahuasca concoction, it could be that all the tannins and alkaloids in salt form and the complex mix of alkaloids in general could be absorbed differently (maybe more easily bypassing the MAOI, or whatever), resulting in stronger trip.

There's a huge thread about the "phosphoric acid method" or whatever on ayahuasca.com, something about DMT possibly absorbing better I don't know - but I did get some phosphoric acid and did make some DMT phosphate, and ate it, and it DID seem to not only come on faster but was a lot stronger for the 60 or so milligrams I took