| Allergies? Never heard of it...BUT...they usually do make you puke. Then again, so does mescaline and alchohol if you drink too much. It's not an allergy, it's a normal reaction from your body. But if you heat and dry them properly, the chemical which mostly makes you sick turns into the chemical which gets you high. Potency from mushroom to mushroom can vary as does the effect on each individual. Usually about 7 grams dried is a dose.
"Muscarine, discovered in 1869, was long thought to be the active hallucinogenic agent in A. muscaria until late 1960s, when scientists recognized it as ibotenic acid and muscimol. Some users cook the mushroom before ingestion, because it is said that the ibotenic acid turns into muscimol under this heat. This suposedly removes several unpleasant side effects due to the conversion of the much more toxic ibotenic acid into muscimol."
"If a fly agaric is eaten, it is usually not fresh, but in its sun-dried form, where the hallucinogenic chemicals are more concentrated (ibotenic acid converted to the more stable and far less poisonous muscimol)" |