So, I am in contact with people experimenting atm, and we are really trying to figure out what the proper protocol is. Personally I was way too freaked out for the amanita dreamer macro dose to infinity and just quit benzos route -- and fwiw my friend coming off diazepam atm went too fast and it ended up messing up his titration a bit... imo you probably COULD just sub amanita for benzos and do it that way, but the amount of muscimol that would take is intense and it's expensive to find good medicalized muscimol sources, so I haven't had the option/seen this done first hand.
When i was coming off benzos, I would use amanita/kava in lower doses on the days that I dropped the dosage, and maybe the next day after - it would make the drops tolerable and generally smooth things out. From what I have been learning about the pharmacology --- allosteric modulators like benzos fuck with the shape and polarity of the gaba receptor site -- so the "damage" isn't so much like excitotoxic damage, it's more like diabetes but w GABA instead of sugar. changing the electrical potentials at the site messes up the ability of natural gaba to bind there. -- so you still have natural GABA in the brain, you just can't connect it to your GABA sites, hence the problems and inability to control glutamate symptoms.
from what I understand muscimol is quite close to natural gaba shape and helps to rework the receptors back to where they can take natural gaba.
The guy i know who works on this as his industry knows more about all of it, i will request that he send me some literature so i can back this up with citation instead of just speculation.
My own experience post benzos is that the more I let muscimol into my brain, the better off I get with daily anxiety, movement problems -- im back to sleeping 5/6 hours of deep sleep a night, just obvious repair of my GABA systems, which is fantastic. I've run it for 40 days and stopped for 5, no wd manifested, sleep still remained better. I'm about to clear off it again to verify these changes stick around.
I think the reality is we are in new/uncharted territory here. I personally wouldn't jump into a CT benzo wd and just balls deep to muscimol as I am too fearful of the bzd wd syndrome --- but a few anecdotal cases have emerged of people doing exactly that so -- ymmv - we are all learning, but undoubtably there is POTENT healing potential in amanita muscaria for the mamallian GABA system.
after working with it, i consider it an S-tier entheogen on par with ibogaine, LSD, psilocin etc.