DISCLAIMER: Forgive my ignorance. I apologize for anything that I Say, Ask, or comment on that you feel is stupid. You can imagine how excited I was when I ordered 1/2 ounce of Sage Goddess Emerald Essence, 1 ounce of regular leaf and 1 gram of 5x sticky purple salvia. I even left work 1 half hour early so that I would get home before traffic relaxed and at peace. I set everything up with candles a dark room and light music. I hoped that it was going to be everything that I had read about. I needed a personal introspection. I started chewing a quid of leaves and after about a half hour......*nothing* I must be doing it wrong. All that was left in my mouth was a lot of mush. ok.... it is just me I did it wrong. I then put 4 droppers full of the sage goddess in a small shot glass and added 3 droppers of water. The directions said to keep it in my mouth for 15 minutes. I put it in my mouth and imagine my shock when it felt like I had just taken a shot of boiling water..... oh crap..... 5 minutes nothing....10 minutes nothing...... I must have had to much saliva as a reaction to the burning. So..... I did it again focusing on not salivating... 10 minutes nothing.... 20 minutes nothing... 30 minutes nothing.... So.. being the determined person that I am... I tried again.... 3 droplets of salvia and 2 of water....... same thing. *NOTHING* What am I doing wrong...... all it did was make me sweat a lot. Is there anyone that can walk me through what I am doing wrong? After $150 and a week of waiting... I am more that a little disappointed. I really want to have a good experience. Any help is more than welcomed. Thank you newroman
I never got leaves bro, i always got the extract. If these things still don't work, i would suggest picking up some salvia extract as opposed to leaves. I've never chewed on or smoked the leaves so i have no experience with them. If and when you get the extract, get a pipe. Any lighter really, but a torch lighter seems to work just a bit better, but it won't make an amazing difference. Burn the shit in the pipe, and take a big hit. Hold that hit in for 20+ seconds, you'll know when you start tripping. After that just try to be ready for the less than a minute come on. I would have a sitter as well to grab the pipe so you won't drop it and break it, and so if you freak out. Regular pipes work fine, but bongs, bubblers or steamrollers seem to work the best because of the large hit that they produce, so one hit should be good. Other than that man, hope everything works out for you. Enjoy tripping.
oral doses are confusingly expensive and comparitively not satisfying for the effort you may need to take a lot of elixir (my guess is ~30 $ of elixir to get off reasonably) smoking 1/20th to 1/10th of a gram of the 5x should show you what it is all about.
I posted this elsewhere recently in response to Re: can you chew salvia 5x? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would say chew 30 to 50 times as much as you would smoke. the absorption by gut (gums cheeks esophagus stomach and intestines combined) is 30 - 50 times less efficient as the lungs. the threashold amount of 4-6 micrograms salvinorin absorbed per second has to be availed to the brain over a period of 60-90 seconds - oral dosing can sustain a consistent level more continuously but cannot easily achieve the high transfer rate without starting with a much larger amount of material.
