Sinicuichi (Heimia salicifolia)

Sinicuichi (Heimia salicifolia) is een bloeiende plant uit Mexico die door de Azteken werd gebruikt tijdens transrituelen. De oorsprong ligt in Zuid-Amerika; van Mexico tot Argentinie. Sinicuichi wordt ook wel een 'auditief hallucinogeen' genoemd: geluiden zijn vervormd en lijken van ver weg te komen.

Sinicuichi wordt nog steeds door Mexicaanse sjamanen gebruikt om in contact te treden met het goddelijke. De inheemse inwoners daar houden de plant voor heilig en doordrenkt van bovennatuurlijke krachten. Het zou hen helpen bij een groot aantal problemen en ze gebruiken het om op een levendige manier gebeurtenissen van jaren geleden opnieuw te beleven.

We hebben Sinicuichi uitgeprobeerd, en het bleek te zorgen voor een euforisch gevoel, een algehele ontspannenheid en plezierige slaperige effecten.

Effecten

Euforie, algehele ontspanning, auditieve hallucinaties, verbetering van het geheugen.

Gebruik

10 gram moet genoeg zijn om thee van te maken. Vermeng met 3 koppen water en laat het een tijdje koken of zet het een dag in de zon. Daarna is het klaar om te drinken.

Waarschuwing

Langdurig gebruik kan de werking van het geheugen aantasten. Sommige gebruikers ervaren na consumptie (en ook de volgende dag) onplezierige bij-effecten: hevige spierpijn, pijnlijke gewrichten, uitputting, hoofdpijn.

Beoordelingen

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Feb 4, 2010 iaytgul zei:
    
“I extracted about an ounce of sinicuichi in boiling water (boiled it for an hour or so, strained, boiled off the water; can't remember well since it was a while ago). It formed little resiny clumps. I left it for a while and eventually decided to smoke some, thinking it was Calea zacatechichi (the label had come off and I keep them together). I wanted to dream well... Anyway, I realized my error after about 4-5 hits. I suppose the psychoactives in sinicuichi work much better at high concentrations, since I'd smoked the plain leaf before. The resin, unlike the plain leaf, smelled sort of similar to cannabis, but not too much.

Anyway, after about 10 minutes (felt like a long onset for inhalation, but that's fine) I started feeling high; the plateau (after about 30-40 minutes) felt similar to cannabis in terms of mood and slight euphoria and such. Very minor auditory hallucinations, primarily thinking I'm hearing (friendly) voices or a TV in the other room. However, the body effects were much different; I felt relatively normal physically, at least from the neck down. It actually made me concentrate somewhat more, though only about particular things (unlike the sort of euphoric apathy that I get from cannabis). I can't remember how long it lasted, but it was comparable to cannabis, maybe slightly shorter though.

Had no side-effects at all, except for increased appetite (though the food wasn't much tastier than normal like I always get with cannabis).

I tried it again a couple days later; this time I smoked another chunk of resin (not very much, but the same as the first time) and nothing much happened. I ate one of the chunks, and after 90 min. or so nothing happened. It is possible that I had some sort of tolerance, or maybe I did something wrong the second time. Unlike the first time, the second time I had minor muscle aches (and minor chest tightness, though that is apparently normal, and I'm young so it wasn't exacerbating an existing problem) the day after. Could have been the fact that I ate some the second time, so it stayed in my system longer.

Overall, reminiscent of cannabis, but quite unique. I'll do it again. Hopefully the inconsistency was due to tolerance and not due to something I did the first time that I'll never remember how to do right again... :)”

Aug 27, 2009 Cobra zei:
  
“Made a 20gr sinicuichi tea (boil 500ml water, add sinicuichi, reduce to approx. 300ml) and drank it in 15 minutes. Also rolled 1 fat joined of dried sinicuichi and smoked half of it.

This all resulted in no effect at all. Two hours later I went to bed, and had a very restless night, woke up every 60minutes, pains in muscles started 3 hours after ingestion.

Did dream funny and was able to remeber most of it.

The only 'effect' I value afterwards is the feeling of not being alone during my sleep but together with two others, one male, one female (more present then the male). During my dreams I shared feelings with the famale. Felt more or less like I was accompanied by them during everything I did in my dreams and I shared my thoughts with them.

The morning after my whole body hurt like crazy. My throat was swollen, making it harder to breath and talk. The pains in my muscles were so severe I had to stay in bed till 4 in the afternoon, then taking painkillers to relieve it...

Although the dream-effect might sound cool/positive, it was not that clear or vivid that I would use sinicuichi again soon...”

Jun 20, 2009 Poent zei:
   
“Een pepermunt innemen werkt erg goed, moet allen nog zien of het nu iets doet. Maar een pepermunt werkt erg goed tegen de nare smaak.”