Posted by verne on August 20, 2005, at 0:17:06
In reply to Re: Relora » verne, posted by gromit on August 19, 2005, at 23:04:47
Rick,
The transdermal patch is called Emsam and is scheduled for November 27th. Here's a link: http://www.drugs.com/nda/emsam_050616.html
I've tried Fo-Ti along with Gotu Kola and Ginseng but thought all three had too much of a body load - with Gotu Kola being the lightest. Perhaps I'll give Fo-Ti a whirl again.
Also tried the herbal smokeshop pot alternatives like Daggia and Salvia D. Daggia made me wish more than ever that pot were legal. Daggia may look and smell like pot but it simply doesn't do anything. I got much more out of smoking lotus.
I even built a homemade waterpipe just for my lotus experiments. The most sedating, yet pleasant, variety is: Nelumbo Nucifera. There's a kind of medicinal just-got-a-shot-from-the-dentist feeling. Nymphaea Caerulea is lighter and more of an aphrodisiac. Best soaked in wine for a week but can also be smoked.
I'm still searching, but of all the exotics or "enthnobotanicals" (not sure why they're called that), the different types of blue, white, or sacred Lotus are my choice for anxiety and even depression.
I would use them more but I keep taking my waterpipe apart and hiding the pieces during paranoid moments. I suddenly fear that the police will arrive and I'll be arrested for drug paraphenalia (can't spell that either).
Anyway, Blue Lotus has been used since ancient Egypt to produce visions and euphoria. It's also used in Buddhist culture. I've bought different types from Nepal and Africa.
Sorry about the rambling, I fired up the mobile easily-disposable toilet-paper tube pipe with some Nepalise Nelumbo. At first I was almost too sedated but now I'm flying - 2 hours later.
Last summer, a friend and I tried several different enthnos and exotic stuff. I can't even remember them all. Legal poppy varieties, karom from Cambodia, and just about anything that had an alkaloid or opiate pulse. We drew the line at anything that was obviously poisonous.
In the end we decided pot was best and the Lotus, promising. But we are both too paranoid to use weed on a steady basis so again with the weird, yet legal, alternatives.
Verne
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