I'm way behind on replying to posts, so I'll be brief. I had a 20g T. Terschekki cactus drink today, good enough for me to have a (++.5). I had a wonderful day with the medicine! The body felt mostly good during the long climb and felt intensely euphoric in the plateau. I think this bodes well for good after-effects, and while the after-effects following the previous (10g) dose were modest, they seemed to not fade much over the past two weeks. Either they are very long-lasting, or I am healing to the point that I'm not as dependent on the medicine to relieve the symptoms.
I need to spin off a new thread about this, but for now: I've titrated 2C-D, 2C-E, 2C-I, 2C-B, and mescaline up to doses that give solid (++) level experiences. I've done this over the course of a few months. It's very difficult to make a call as to how well each one works, but I'm leaning toward mescaline and 2C-E as being the top choices. Both 2C-B and 2C-D provided strong symptomatic relief, perhaps similar to the others at the same level of peak effects, and they are much shorter. However, I feel like the mescaline and 2C-E had more lasting effects, perhaps consistent with more actual flesh healing. Maybe it's because of their longer durations (if after-effect duration correlates best with duration primary effects), or maybe it has to do with how they activate the 5ht2a receptor. Supposing that 5ht2a mediates a combination of healing/tissue regeneration and anti-inflammatory effects, different psychedelics may activate the former more or less than the latter. A healthful psychedelic medicine should do both in a proper balance. Mescaline unlike the others has a very long history of regular human use, which suggests that it may strike a good balance. Drugs like 2C-B and 2C-D might lean more anti-inflammatory than regenerative, but that's doesn't mean they aren't potentially helpful---just not necessarily as healthy to use on a weekly basis or whatever as is often done with mescaline in indigenous traditions. How about 2C-I? Well, it feels kind of between the two groups I described above, which is consistent with its duration, I guess.
I still haven't tried the "new" Peruvianus material yet because it turns out that it's way easier to make a tea from my dried Terschekki. Said tea is also far more palatable; although, I'm still working on a Peruvianus tea to see if the mucilage and tannins I've noted (and which are nearly absent in the Terschekki) are worth consuming for some beneficial effect or if they just cause more nausea. Either way, I'll probably try the A/B extract route as well. When I sampled it, the sliminess didn't seem too bad, but the tannins were savagely bitter and lingered for a long time. I'm pretty sure the nausea will be worse. The Terschekki tea is thin. It's concentrated into a few gulps per dose. It has an alkaloid bitterness that does not linger much. And it doesn't seem have anything to induce nausea except for the mescaline itself.