So I´ve read, and heard a lot about drinking orange juice; grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, or squeezed lemons to enhance a psilocybin-trip. When I bought truffles in Amsterdam, the guy who sold us the truffles told us to drink orange juice if we felt like we were tripping to hard, to drink the OJ to "calm down" our trip. I´ve read different posts about this now, and it seems vitamin c has not really anything to do with it, but it´s the acid in these juices. Some say it´s just a placebo effect, others say, it made their trip really extreme. So what´s the real deal really? Does it make you trip harder, but for a shorter period of time? Or is it just bullshit? About to try shrooms tomorrow, not sure if I should just eat them or if I should try it with a juice. Don't want to "ruin" my experience by having an extremly heavy but really short trip, but I´ve heard it might enhance visuals and I sure do like some good visuals... So, what are YOUR experiences with this vitamin c/juice/acidity- myth!?
myth. the only part of it that may be true is the "lemon tech" you grind your shrooms to dust and soak them in REAL lemon juice for 15 minutes or longer. this could theoretically extract the psilocin/psilocybin out of the mushrooms so that when you drink the whole lemon/shroom mush...it will hit you faster, and you may trip for a shorter duration. if you were to not eat the mushroom material, you might not get stomach issues, which may or may not happen when you just eat the shrooms. i'd say just eat them. drinking juice after you eat them will likely do nothing, other than quench your thirst and keep you hydrated.
The best way to take dried mushrooms is to grind them up finely and wash them down on a empty stomach with nothing else. Anything in your stomach including juice will only slow the uptake of psilocybin.
You could try syrian rue to enhance a trip and make it last longer. But be careful as it is an MAOI inhibitor, so be careful what you eat the day of the trip.
Eating a MAOI is a bad idea if yiu are not experienced..... it will greatly increase the effects and take you further then you may want to go.