First, let's compare/contrast the 3 common pure harmala alkaloids:
Harmaline: The most potent harmala alkaloid: 100mg is an average oral dose of the HCl salt. Twice the potency of harmine and THH. Very foggy and hypnotic. Generally cheapest also. Rue seeds usually contain more harmaline.
Harmine: Hypnotic enough to cancel fear. 200mg of the HCl salt is an average oral dose. Not very challenging to the ego.
Tetrahydroharmine (THH): This one has a few isomers. The THH I sell is what Shulgin referred to as the racemate (D+L isomers), and it is a potent MAOi unlike the L isomer that some people say feels just like a little mood booster. Average dose: 200mg of the HCl salt. This DL-THH is reduced from harmaline using magnesium in HCl. It is extremely ego-challenging and so I suggest to mix it 2:1 with harmine to even that out. I took 50mg DMT with pure THH once and that was the only time I ever had a freak-out experience where I literally scared the whole neighborhood, trying to tell someone what I found out before I ceased to exist.
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The 2 well-known, easily extracted harmalas that are found in rue & caapi are harmaline (mostly in rue seeds) and harmine (rue root, and sometimes caapi has mostly harmine). There is not much D-THH found naturally in either, but via traditional 24 hour boiling, the harmaline is converted to DL-THH.
Caapi also contains at least 6 other harmalas which are not easily extractable in pure form. Ayahuasca traditionalists and connoisseurs prefer the full spectrum of caapi harmalas, altho each strain of caapi is also different in its alkaloid profile.
Although in the Western hemisphere, Syrian rue seeds are considered a poor substitute for B. caapi, the fact is that rue is far superior when vaped, but not when eaten. Rue contains dozens of other harmalas and related drugs, many of which still uncharacterized, which all work together to produce an incredibly beautiful entourage effect when one vapes the whole or crushed rue seeds (whole seeds produce a softer, lovier vibe, crushed seeds are more full-psychedelic perfection) followed by vaping pure DMT (which at this point is nearly unobtainable aside from the synthetic form made in a lab). Rue seeds have been known through history as a powerful incense to ward off evil spirits, and now we know why! Vaping them goes well with most psychedelics, though the magic pair is with pure synthetic DMT. Read more about "Chrunga" here.
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Harmaline: The most potent harmala alkaloid: 100mg is an average oral dose of the HCl salt. Twice the potency of harmine and THH. Very foggy and hypnotic. Generally cheapest also. Rue seeds usually contain more harmaline.
Harmine: Hypnotic enough to cancel fear. 200mg of the HCl salt is an average oral dose. Not very challenging to the ego.
Tetrahydroharmine (THH): This one has a few isomers. The THH I sell is what Shulgin referred to as the racemate (D+L isomers), and it is a potent MAOi unlike the L isomer that some people say feels just like a little mood booster. Average dose: 200mg of the HCl salt. This DL-THH is reduced from harmaline using magnesium in HCl. It is extremely ego-challenging and so I suggest to mix it 2:1 with harmine to even that out. I took 50mg DMT with pure THH once and that was the only time I ever had a freak-out experience where I literally scared the whole neighborhood, trying to tell someone what I found out before I ceased to exist.
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The 2 well-known, easily extracted harmalas that are found in rue & caapi are harmaline (mostly in rue seeds) and harmine (rue root, and sometimes caapi has mostly harmine). There is not much D-THH found naturally in either, but via traditional 24 hour boiling, the harmaline is converted to DL-THH.
Caapi also contains at least 6 other harmalas which are not easily extractable in pure form. Ayahuasca traditionalists and connoisseurs prefer the full spectrum of caapi harmalas, altho each strain of caapi is also different in its alkaloid profile.
Although in the Western hemisphere, Syrian rue seeds are considered a poor substitute for B. caapi, the fact is that rue is far superior when vaped, but not when eaten. Rue contains dozens of other harmalas and related drugs, many of which still uncharacterized, which all work together to produce an incredibly beautiful entourage effect when one vapes the whole or crushed rue seeds (whole seeds produce a softer, lovier vibe, crushed seeds are more full-psychedelic perfection) followed by vaping pure DMT (which at this point is nearly unobtainable aside from the synthetic form made in a lab). Rue seeds have been known through history as a powerful incense to ward off evil spirits, and now we know why! Vaping them goes well with most psychedelics, though the magic pair is with pure synthetic DMT. Read more about "Chrunga" here.
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