Amanita muscaria: Difference between revisions

In light of the potential toxicity, it has been shown to best reduce nausea and vomiting by making a tea from dried amanita muscaria. The preparation techniques have been shown "''no significant variation in the likelihood of experiencing psychoactive effects''<ref>Revisiting Wasson's Soma: Exploring the Effects of Preparation on the Chemistry of Amanita Muscaria Kevin Feeney a a Department of Anthropology , Washington State University , Pullman, WA Published online: 20 Sep 2011.</ref>", however, they do vary in the number of side effects produced. The most effective preparation method is described in a patent which uses a laboratory and a reactant comprising of glutamate decarboxylase (potentially soured milk)<ref>Method for producing muscimol and/or reducing ibotenic acid from amanita tissue.https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140004084A1/en</ref>. However, many of the ingredients listed in this study would not be readily available, an equivalent more accessible version would be a decarboxylation method which uses at least a 150-minute boil in a pH 2.7 water solution (Lemon juice has a pH of about 2)<ref>'''Revisiting Wasson’s SOMA''': By Kevin M. Feeney. Thesis written May 2012, accessed on 5 June 2023 via: http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2012/k_feeney_013112.pdf</ref>.