Has anyone else tried adding large amounts of calcium carbonate/tums (10 or grams) to their tea. It makes its significantly stronger. I think calcium morphenate must have a higher bioavailability.....
Also, grind your pods as FINE as possible. It should be like dust, no chuncks etc....
In regards to the stems, I equate 40 grams of powdered stems to 10-15 grams of pods. They certainly have some opiate content....
I have added 5 tums (around 5gms calcium carbonate) on several occasions and didn't notice a single difference at all.
I also use to acidify my tea for a very long time, (at least 2 years I did this) and NEVER noticed a difference, I only did it because people seemed to believe it made the tea stronger.
At any rate, it doesn't matter how fine it is if you soak it long enough. Hot water penetrates poppy like nothing. As soon as the powder gets soft, the salts will easily move out into solution with the littlest bit of agitation.
I have made tea over the years in a million different ways, and have never noticed a difference in strength or quality. Not to mention how bad 10gms of calcium carbonate is for your stomach, ADDED to the fact that the poppy itself is going to greatly slow down digestion.
You are dropping the ph of your stomach acid so low, it will begin to treat food like bacteria (as the food sits there undigested) and you can get really sick by doing this on a daily basis.
I can site links about how bad it is to have a low stomach ph, really bad for you.
Also, why does it seem noone can make up their mind about whether the hell poppies should be acidified or basified?
This is really crazy how it goes back and forth.
In water solution, one condition will have the salts precipitate insoluble while another condition will have the salts dissolve in the water.
Example, when you acidify freebase meth, it dissolve in water. When you basify it, the meth comes out of solution and if you are filtering poppies, the idea would be like filtering the active drug right out of solution.
Except that the morphenate is made in basic conditions.
This has remained the single most confusing aspect of poppies. There SHOULD NOT be so many people recommending both conditions. It just doesn't make an scientific sense. If the soluble salt is made in basic conditions, what the HELL is the point of acidifying the straw?
Like who came up with that concept? You can't go both ways here. It should be either or. I've never tried such a large amount of calcium carbonate, but 10gms sounds like overkill. At least to be accurate, get a fish tank ph strip and dip it in your solution. The second the ph is around 9 you have added enough CaCO3, afterwards your wasting tums and harming your stomach.
At this point I use nothing. Just hot water and let it sit for 6-8 hours. I find as long as I let it sit long enough, most the salts dissolve no matter what. It would be cool to find out 90% of poppy users are doing it wrong, and that 10gms of tums can increase the strength considerable like you say. But we really should have a better idea of where the hell to start first.
Like why not just dispell the whole acidifying process first? Wouldn't it make sense that acidifying is compleltey useless if salts are dissolved in basic solutions? That what I am curious about personally.