Blue lotus

[Youpi]

Hi,

I'll get 25g Nymphea Caerulea (blue lotus) next week, anyone tried it ?
What's the effect I can expect from it ? It's said to be hallucinogenic on high dosages, anyone had exeperience with blue lotus ?
How should I use it ?

Thanks,

[Paradoxic]

Its basically a mild opiate. Its quite enjoyable, one of my favorite legal herbs. It tastes really good as tea so I'd recommend that. But I've heard letting it  extract in a bottle of wine for a while can make for a nice combination.

[Youpi]

Thanks, I'll try it soon in combination with alcohol !

[SexyMattTheCat]

Thanks, I'll try it soon in combination with alcohol !

Please let us know how it goes.

[Arcygenical]

I did a basic extraction of 54g of blue lotus in 1l of 100% ethanol alcohol, let it evaporate down to a small volume, then deposited it on 2g of regular flower.

This was fine for smoking, as it did create a euphoric effect... But the best was, by far, mixing 1g of this 27x mixture into a JD and coke. I let it dry to a crisp, powdered it into icing sugar like consistency, and swallowed the plant material after drinking the infusion.

[DrYRHead]

Thanks, I'll try it soon in combination with alcohol !

The ancient Egyptians used to steep the flowers in wine.

[Kythcen Wytch]

My Significant Other and myself love this herb/plant!!

We tend to do two things to it, generally we've bought 50g of it and split it half and half.

One half goes into a high strength vodka (a 35cl bottle) - not a cheap version either!  This was mashed about a bit and left in the fridge overnight, for two nights if you can wait!  It was then strained through a sieve/muslin and the vodka split between us. 

The other half goes into as sweet a red wine as you can find as it can make it quite bitter.  Again, leave it to stand/seep overnight/two nights then strain and enjoy as the evening progresses.  We tend to drink the vodka first to get it into our system. 

The last time we did this, if I remember, I gently heated the strained wine in a pan over a low heat and added a little honey and I think cinnammon - turning it into a mulled type wine.  It helped alot!!

It can get you quite trancey, and we tend to end up very lost in each other.  The rest of the night is normally very, well... there's a reason we spend about £30 on 50g's of it!

The other thing that can also happen, is if you take this on friday night, as we've done, the effects can be re-felt, or re-initiated the following day if you have an alcoholic drink again.  And also, to a lesser effect, the night after that too.

Hope this helps... I respectfully suggest that you should try it - at least once!

Oh, and it does tend to have *more* of an effect on the female of the species!



 

[Arcygenical]

Remember, equal amounts of ethanol, split between a male and a female will elicit a much stronger effect in the female species .

My favorite way to take BL is to extract the alkaloids out of it (just a basic cold water extraction, which works fine if you pH it to 3) then a basification to pH7 and let it dry to a crisp... Cap, and swallow.

You get all of the "trancy" ness that was described by Kythcen without the alcohol intoxication.

[Youpi]

Thanks, I'll try this soon !