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Ephedra tea / Marijuana - Experienced - Tingly scalp, incredible inner warmth

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Ephedra tea-weed-experienced-tingly scalp, incredible inner warmth

I just had some ephedra tea again, from a batch of very potent micronised powder 10x extract.

After drinking the bitter tea, made with one heaped teaspoon, a little stronger dose than I am used to, but not by much, and sweetened with a little white sugar, I felt that familiar rush, but different, slightly, with the higher dose, my usual being one flat teaspoon of 10x extract.

The tea tastes bitter, but to me, pleasant, slightly reminiscent of liquorice root, however my friend "K" says it tastes like cubensis shrooms=D

The rush was slightly different this time, I got through my cup of tea, after having eaten a little, two cans of tuna and a mince pie beforehand, I was already stoned a little, having smoked a few joints (I chain smoke8( )

The weed, some jamaican skunk, with quite a few stems, and ready to plant ripe seeds (I look upon seeds in a bag as a good point, rather than an impurity and save them religiously) but its some quite heady potent weed, synergises so nicely with the mixed alkaloids in ephedra tea, which I find so much more recreational than ephedrine alone, it takes the edge off the tweakiness, and leaves a lovely warm glow inside, still the buzz, and energy of the ephedra, but with that soothing soft cushion of the THC to comfort and sooth against any jitters that would otherwise show with ephedra.

As the rush starts, about T: -15minutes, I started to listen to music, I put on a little operatic black metal, a band called Draconian, and their sone Persephone, a tale of the abduction of Persephone to the by the greek god of underworld, Hades, and get so absorbed into the narrative, that it feels like I am almost there, watching and witnessing the underworld, and gods of ancient legend:)

I feel the urge for some more heavy satisfying dark music, so decided to turn up the volume on my computer, and listen to my Anaal Nathrakh albums downloaded off that wonderful source of bootleg music, the internet:)

As the music played, I started to feel this lovely tingling sensation, first in my scalp, although my hair were pleasantly electrified in feeling, and slowly it spread through my whole body, until my entire body and legs were buzzing with this tingly feeling.

I sometimes wonder why people choose to take illegal amphetamines, although I always realise how much more powerful the rush is, I like ephedra the way it is unreduced:D this feeling, can only be described as pure euphoric bliss, I find ephedra a drug I will always treasure, even though it is legal.

It's very cheap, and I buy 150 gram supplies at a time, and use maybe a teaspoon each time, so it is extremely economical considering the price of street drugs, or chemical synthesis reagents for the great high it produces for me.

I spent maybe an hour or so, its a little hard to tell, throughout the intense euphoria, and I couln't be fucked to look at my watch :\ talking to a fellow amateur chemist, discussing the pyrotechnic eggs made with mercury thiocyanate, they produce cool twisting ash snakes as they burn.

We discuss grignard reagents, chemical suppliers, politics and stuff for a while, then we both leave MSN chat, as we are busy LOL.

Finally, still feeling great, I go to see my fiancee, and spend ages telling her how much she means to me, and the way she has truly turned my life around to happiness like I have never felt before:D

Sorry if this is a little rambling, I am a little stoned=D
 
Has the tea ever given you a headache? Every time I've used too much ephedrine at once, it gave me a TERRIBLE headache after about 4 hours. Every time was in combination with caffeine though, I have a hard time finding ephedrine pills w/o caffiene.

How easy would it be to extract a relatively pure ephedrine salt from the micronized extract?

Have you taken the diet pills with the ephedrine / caffiene combo? If so, how would you compare the tea to those?

What are the other alkaloids in the leaf material?
 
No, I have never had a headache from ephedrine, that could be due to cardiovascular effects though if you had.

I haven't tried those diet pills, they are so overpriced, £30-40 a bottle on some occasions, and I've no need to, when drinking the tea gets me on a strong rush for upto a full day=D I don't think I would try the pills though, I wouldn't want the caffeine to put any excess strain on my heart whilst on the ephedra.

Ephedra Sinica has almost entirely ephedrine I believe, with possibly some pseudoephedrine, although E.Nevadensis has exclusively pseudoephedrine.

I haven't done the extraction on the ephedra powder yet, it came as sort of like a fine brown powder, like ground up instant coffee granuals, and hard as buggery to filter out of a solution boiled in HCl.

As soon as I have access to my lab again, I will try an extraction using finer filter paper than I used, perhaps standard filter paper with a layer of charmin toilet paper, as that will hopefully catch the particles, if not, then a vacuum filtration might be nessescary, or short-path distillation.
 
any thoughts on how effective vacuum filtration through a few coffee filters would be?

is there any estimation on the % of alkaloids per gram of the leaf material?

i take ephedrine to help with my ADD symptoms at work. the added caffiene in the diet pills kinda sucks though. do you think drinking a cup of tea in the morning (perhaps a lower concentration than what you used in the report) would be effective?

how often do you drink the tea? would a tolerance build too fast if one drank it 5 times a week or so? have you noticed any ill side effects from the tea?
 
I only use it occasionally, I have noticed maybe a little tiredness in the morning, after being totally trashed on it the day before, as sleep isn't possible, at least not w/o downers or ether for me.

The material is standardized to 10% ephedrine.

I imagine tolerance to ephedrine builds just as to any amphetamine really, and its probably addictive, at least potentially, if abused, but I am careful to avoid addiction.

I think you could try using it for ADHD, on a low dose, although I think methylphenidate is usually used(ritalin) which is a little different to the amphetamines i think.
 
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