Hello!
In the past, I have greatly enjoyed smoking DMT freebase with friends. Recently, I’ve decided to make a formohuasca brew from acacia confusa root bark and syrian rue. I've been lurking at the nexus for a little while and have registered now to hopefully receive some feedback on my experience and my brew recipe.
My recipe for making the brew: I ground up 12g of the bark into a fine tufts and pestled 4g the syrian rue seeds into powder. The ACRB and SR were put into different pans and boiled with 3 washes of distilled water. As the brew boiled down I added more distilled water to keep the levels in a manageable drinking amount. At one point, I accidentally boiled the rue down to the seeds barely soaked in water (I don’t think they were burned or roasted).
After the 3rd wash of SR, I combined them and left in the fridge for 3 days swishing up the sediments each day. After the 3rd wash of ACRB, I combined the ACRB brew to be boiled one last time with some egg whites to remove the tannins. The ACRB was filtered and placed in the freezer for 3 days.
After the third day, the SR brew (about a shots worth of yellowish-brown) was drank in the morning. Then 15 minutes later, I began to drink the ACRB brew which had a pink and dark redish color to it. I’m glad I boiled that egg in that last wash- it was tasteless compared to the awful bitter taste of the rue. Over the next hour or so I finished the rest of the ACRB brew.
About 45 minutes from taking the SR, I began to feel kind of sluggish and weighed down. I remember my thoughts starting to draw inward, thinking about life stuff and began to get kind of down on myself. Objects in my bedroom developed an aura or trails. I started to feel the beginnings of a purge coming on about an hour and 15 minutes in. My head started to get hot and I went to the bathroom. I had this weird ringing in my ear similar to tinnitus just before the hurl. Surprisingly, I only purged maybe 1/5 of the brew.
After purging all the visual changes began to diminish (as minimal as they were at the height) and mental patterns began returning to normal. 2 hours after taking the brew, I was back at baseline albeit a little tired so I took a nap.
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My initial thinking was that my brew might induce a trip of around 5 hours. I was surprised to have had about 30 minutes of altered thoughts and mild hallucinations.
I am hoping someone who is skilled with brewing and drinking formohuasca to provide feedback on my brew. I am sure the brew was made without any mistakes, besides boiling the SR to far down that one time. If the recipe looks correct, my thinking is that it has to have been the root bark concentration. From what I’ve read, there are no clear visual characteristics between the AC root bark vs. stem/trunk bark or a way to identify high concentrations.
Nonetheless, I am glad I went about making the brew, getting myself into the right headspace and focusing my intentions over the 3 days. In the future I'd like to grow my own acacia for brewing and spice extraction.
Thank for reading and any feedback
