Seattle_Stranger
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Hello all!! Let me clarify right off the bat that I'm not looking to tweak on ephedra. If I catch a buzz or a little euphoria from it, whoopdeedoo but that's not particularly what I'm after.
For those who don't already know, Ma Huang is the natural source of ephedrine, (arguably) nature's amphetamine. I finally found a local source of real Ma Huang in harvested plant form, not pills or stacks or extracts, the real deal. Being a natural-psychoactive-psycho, I purchased myself 3oz of ma huang, basically a paper bag full of little green twigs.
The first time I made a cup of ephedra tea, I ground up a handful of the twigs in my coffee grinder, boiled water, and made tea in a french press. A friend came over about an hour later and suggested we eat mushrooms, so I did (not much) and we went for a walk. I felt a rather pleasurable energy kick on our walk, but I creditted all of this to the shrooms seeing as a small psilocybin dose before a walk always has this effect. A couple days later I tried another similar cup, and this produced no conceivable effect. Today, instead of my routine morning cup of coffee, I downed a cup of ma huang tea. Result: Short lived stomach ache and no noticeable 'wakefulness' or stimulation. After waiting about an hour and a half for effects, I gave up and made a cup of coffee, which seemed to produce nearly immediate stimulation when I began drinking it. Now I'm 3/4 through that cup of java and I'm awake.
Having said that, does anyone else use ma huang? I'm not talking about ephedrine HCL, or a stack, or any kind of synthetic version or extract or anything like that. I'm talking about actual ma huang twigs. Does anyone get good use from this stuff? Everywhere I read, people are going on about how great ephedra is, how addictive it can be, how when people drink it they feel like they've taken adderall, etc.. I want these effects!!
Anyone have experience? Dosage reccomendations? Perhaps a better preparation? Description of the effects they get? Again, I'm not hoping to get a straight-amphetamine effect from this, I know that is unreasonable to expect. However, if this is something that can at least produce a cleaner stimulation than caffeine, I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance!
For those who don't already know, Ma Huang is the natural source of ephedrine, (arguably) nature's amphetamine. I finally found a local source of real Ma Huang in harvested plant form, not pills or stacks or extracts, the real deal. Being a natural-psychoactive-psycho, I purchased myself 3oz of ma huang, basically a paper bag full of little green twigs.
The first time I made a cup of ephedra tea, I ground up a handful of the twigs in my coffee grinder, boiled water, and made tea in a french press. A friend came over about an hour later and suggested we eat mushrooms, so I did (not much) and we went for a walk. I felt a rather pleasurable energy kick on our walk, but I creditted all of this to the shrooms seeing as a small psilocybin dose before a walk always has this effect. A couple days later I tried another similar cup, and this produced no conceivable effect. Today, instead of my routine morning cup of coffee, I downed a cup of ma huang tea. Result: Short lived stomach ache and no noticeable 'wakefulness' or stimulation. After waiting about an hour and a half for effects, I gave up and made a cup of coffee, which seemed to produce nearly immediate stimulation when I began drinking it. Now I'm 3/4 through that cup of java and I'm awake.
Having said that, does anyone else use ma huang? I'm not talking about ephedrine HCL, or a stack, or any kind of synthetic version or extract or anything like that. I'm talking about actual ma huang twigs. Does anyone get good use from this stuff? Everywhere I read, people are going on about how great ephedra is, how addictive it can be, how when people drink it they feel like they've taken adderall, etc.. I want these effects!!
Anyone have experience? Dosage reccomendations? Perhaps a better preparation? Description of the effects they get? Again, I'm not hoping to get a straight-amphetamine effect from this, I know that is unreasonable to expect. However, if this is something that can at least produce a cleaner stimulation than caffeine, I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance!