This document is for informational purposes only.
Topics Covered:
– Why microdose amanita mscaria?
– How to prepare amanita muscaria tea
– Do I want to take my dose with a spoon or just pop it in my mouth?
– How do I measure my dose?
– How do I determine the right microdose for me?
– Where can I order amanita muscaria caps online?
– The Dosing Protocol
– Pro Tip
Why microdose amanita muscaria?
Microdosing is reputed to:
– alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression, chronic pain, insomnia, and addiction
– promote emotional equilibrium, restful sleep, focus, mental clarity, creativity and productivity
– reduce stress due to its calming, grounding and relaxing effects.
How to prepare amanita muscaria tea
Ingredients & Tools
– 15 grams dried amanita muscaria caps
– 2 cups (250ml) of clean pure water
– a measuring cup
– a small sauce pan
– a tea strainer or cheese cloth to strain the tea
– a glass jar with lid, an ice cube tray or 4 standard silicone “gummy” molds, for storage.
Making the tea
1. Add 15 grams of dried amanita caps to 1 and 1/4 cups of boiling water in a sauce pan. It is not necessary to crumble the amanita caps. Just put them in the pan as they are.
2. Reduce the heat and simmer the caps gently for 20 minutes. The water in the pan will be significantly reduced during this time. Pay attention to be sure the pan doesn’t boil dry.
3. Remove the caps from the sauce pan and strain the remaining liquid while pouring it into a measuring cup. After simmering, the caps will have lost their red color. There is no further use for the simmered caps. Put them in the compost!
4. Add water to bring the liquid in the cup up to 1 full cup. Yes, you may have a little water left over from the original 2 cups.
Do I want to take my dose with a spoon or just pop it in my mouth?
The point here is that you don’t have to buy silicone molds for this. You can use an ordinary set of kitchen measuring spoons.
The shelf life of tea in the refrigerator is between one and two weeks. Tea in a freezer will last indefinitely. If you choose to use a measuring spoon for your dose, you can preserve the tea over the six weeks of the protocol by freezing it in a standard ice cube tray and thawing small portions as needed.
It you use an ice cube tray or a silicone mold in the freezer, be sure to cover them to prevent the tea from evaporating.
How do I measure my dose?
No matter how you measure your dose it won’t be a precision calculation, so don’t fret about each dose being exact.
1. You can use a measuring spoon.
2. You can freeze individual standardized doses in silicone molds like those used to make gummy bears. When choosing to use molds, look for the volume of the mold cavity in the product description. Molds are sold in three common sizes:
– Standard: 1.5 ml
– Medium: 2 ml
– Large: 3ml – 5 ml
3. .25 ml is the standard equivalent of 1/4 teaspoon.
How do I determine the right microdose for me?
A microdose is sub-perceptual. Feeling amped up as if you’re experiencing a caffeine rush or, conversely, feeling sleepy or a little dissociated is not sub-perceptual. You need to pay attention to yourself and how you feel to gauge the microdose that’s right for you. The goal is to find the highest does that still feels like “nothing’s happening.”
Take your microdose a few hours before bedtime. A good place to start in determining your microdose is less than one teaspoon (5 ml). This will give you space to move up or down as needed. An optimal microdose can vary greatly between one person and another. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Your optimal dose is between you and amanita. Ask yourself how you feel. Use your intuition. If you’re a few days into the protocol and the dose doesn’t seem quite right to you, you can adjust it and keep on with the protocol without starting over at the beginning.
Where can I order amanita muscaria caps online?
https://www.amentara.com is a good online source for purchasing amanita caps.
Order 15g Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agaric) traditional caps. Grade B caps are just fine.
The amanita caps will arrive ready to use.
The Dosing Protocol
Take your microdose a few hours before bedtime following the schedule in the chart below.
Remember that you serve yourself best by paying attention to yourself and your own intuition. The protocol is not engraved in stone. It acknowledges that as you experience amanita over time, it is not unusual to dose less frequently. You might sail through this course of microdosing with no changes at all. Or you may decide to alter your dose at some point over the course of the six weeks. Or you may decide to change the frequency of your dose, adding a day or skipping a day as your intuition suggests to you. Amanita is OK with coloring outside the lines.
Pro Tip
Keep a journal.
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