Okay, I have a question about how multivitamins affect an acid trip. I'm going to be taking acid soon, and I'm interested in information, considering I take multivitamins every day. This might have been addressed in a previous thread, but I've only found scattered information. I'm also interested in Ginkgo biloba's effect on LSD.
Well, from what I've read, it seems that niacin can have a decreased effect on the trip. Also, I'm sure something like ginkgo biloba would affect it.
I think the niacin is 50 mg. Niacin is measured in mg, right? I read a report somewhere on the Internet about how it affected someone's trip when taken 3 days successively before the trip, albeit a higher dosage. I think I remember reading a trip report a long time ago about the ginkgo, but it may have been another psychedelic. Anyway, wouldn't the increased blood flow to the brain have a positive effect?
Did the Niacin suppress or potentiate effects? Regarding the ginko, does it have like a nootropic effect. Maybe like Aniracetam or similar? Going out on an edge of ignorance here but i do know that Aniracetam really changes trips for me and it is supposed to increase left-right brain hemisphere communication . . . i imagine via blood flow . . .
Niacin suppresses. I don't know too much else. I'd appreciate more responses. I really want the myth from fact sorted out.
vitamins will have an imperceptible effect on your trip (they will minutely affect metabolism body acidity and what have you in small ways but not enough to trigger changes in the mental realm)
Well, even though there's little info, I dug through the Internet and found a thread on another forum where someone said they took ginkgo biloba with mushrooms, and that it was a really bad experience. And it wasn't subjective considering he'd taken mushrooms plenty of times before and it affected him physically, too. I'd rather not take the risk with acid, so just putting this out there. In fact, isn't ginkgo biloba considered a drug? It definitely isn't a vitamin. Combining one drug with another without much info on how they'll react is a bad idea, anyway. I guess most of everything else is subjective. I've still found some info saying high doses of niacin can affect a trip, and I'm not talking about the "pass a drug test" myth. In any case, I'm stopping use of both in preparation for my trip, and recommend the same for others.
i have heard of one case where someone claimed to have taken vitamin b whatever (niacin) pills during an acid trip and it made it stronger. ONE person CLAIMED. i guess it might be more possible that an herb like ginko biloba could somehow interact, but i doubt it. i like to load up on antioxidants before i trip. like vitamins C and E. i don't think it suppresses or enhances my trip. hopefully the L isn't so weak that you can feel vitamins
Okay, well, I guess I was specifically referring to niacin and ginkgo biloba. Also, I'm talking about niacin suppressing and there was a study I read about that involved high doses, and some other pages I found, too with similar information.
well if you're that worried about it...don't take your multivitamin the day before and of your trip. "problem" solved.
Exactly. Even if niacin does have an effect in high doses, you're probably right in that in multivitamin doses it won't really do anything. In any case, it's one less thing for me to worry about. I think ginkgo is the one to really avoid. After reading that trip report, I don't want to take any chances with using it in combination with psychedelics, because it seemed pretty credible. I was hoping for more of a probing discussion, to be honest, which is why I created this thread, but oh well, I know what I'm going to do, and thanks anyway.
