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A Personal Experience with Amanita Muscaria

December 30, 1994: The mushroom pieces were completely dry. I weighed the dry pieces all together which came to almost exactly 5 grams (excluding the skin that I smoked already which produced NO HALLUCINOGENIC EFFECTS!). I'm going to prepare it exactly the way I prepared some Panther a few days ago. Here's the formula I used:

2 grams Panther
1 cup water
1 buillon cube
garlic and pepper

I heated the above ingrediants to around 170 degrees for about 30 minutes. Then I strained it to remove the solids. I then let the liquid soup sit in the refrigerator for a day, reheated it again, a put it back in the refrigerator again for another day. I don't know it the storage in the refrigerator is benificial or not, but since I'm testing to see if the Panther is stronger than the Fly Agaric I want to keep the recipe exactly the same...no alterations whatsoever! I also want to see if there are any noticible differences between the effects of the Panther compared to the Fly Agaric. Its supposed to be stronger...I'll see about that. Both mushrooms aren't hallucinogenic when smoked. Since that was just a rumor then maybe the other 'fact' about potency is also a rumor.

8:30 PM Janurary 5, 1995: I drank the above formula using 2 grams of dried Amanita Muscaria instead of dried Panther. After 1 whole hour I hardly notice anything at all, but I do feel it slightly, I mostly feel that strange feeling in the head and nerves that's similar to acid. After 1 1/2 hours I feel euphoria and have some mild visual effects. (The euphoria may be do to the fact that I've been feeling good all day, it may not be from the Amanita Muscaria.) By the 1 1/2 hour point with the same dose of Panther I'd be pretty inebriated to the point where my coordination is off. So far it seems like the Panther maybe is about 3 times stronger.

11:30 PM Janurary 9, 1995: I drank some broth made from 3.5 grams of dried Amanita Muscaria. I prepared it a little differently: this time I only heated it in water for 30 minutes, then I drank it down, I didn't let it sit in the refrigerator over night. After 15 minutes I began feeling nausea and a slight headache and a little bit of hallucinogenic effects, and got sudden diarea. This is unpleasant, I feel sick. Either I'm feeling sick because I didn't prepare it the same way by letting it sit for a few days in the refrigerator or because Amanita Muscaria isn't as pure are Amanita pantherina. The only way to test this is to prepare some Panther the same way. I'll do this and see if I get neauseated from it. If I don't then that means that Amanita Muscaria is more toxic then hallucinogenic and should be avoided...neausea SUCKS! I hate feeling sick...it's not worth it to use a hallucinogen that makes you feel neausea. I probably wouldn't like peyote for the same reason. After around 40 minutes I began drinking some coffee to get rid of the headach and stuffy feeling that the Amanita Muscaria caused!
After about an hour the neausea began to start fading, but the headache and stuffy tight feeling in by body remains just as strong. This sucks! After 1 1/2 hours the neausea is gone but the headach and tight feelings are still there but not as strong as before, there starting to fade. These 'side effects' of Amanita Muscaria are not worth it at all. If I find that the Panther never causes this then I will never use Amanita Muscaria again!

Months later after lot of tests I've found that Amanita Pantherina is much less toxic and more hallucinogenic then the better known Amanita Muscaria. Amanita Muscaria makes you sick and is only lightly hallucinogenic.