Amanita Muscaria Part 3: Baba Masha and the Magical Microdose

Could Amanita Muscaria be the secret to finally clearing up your psoriasis? Making your poops more regular? Increasing your agility in the ring? How about in the bedroom ;) The answer may shock you!

We discuss whether this fabled "poison" could have a place in the modern medicine cabinet. And after exploring several studies on the effects of muscimol and ibotenic acid, we examine the results of the largest informal survey of Amanita Muscaria microdosing ever conducted, by none other than the Queen of Amanita Content herself, Russian doctor and psychonaut Baba Masha M.D. And of course, we close things out with a cautionary tale of Amanita Macrodose gone awry!

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

A Fungal Fairy Tale - Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

Baba Masha, "Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria: Creativity, Healing, and Recovery with the Sacred Mushroom" [2022]

R Schwatcz et al., "Ibotenic acid-induced neuronal degeneration: a morphological and neurochemical study"

C.A. Tamminga et al., "Muscimol: Gaba agonist therapy in schizophrenia"

Magdalena Kondeva-Burdina et al., "Effects of Amanita muscaria extract on different in vitro neurotoxicity models at sub-cellular and cellular levels"

Ron Levy et al., "Lidocaine and muscimol microinjections in subthalamic nucleus reverse parkinsonian symptoms"

Ruanxian Dai et al., "Preliminary study on the time-correlation changes in brain neurotransmitters of mice exposed to mushroom toxin ibotenic acid"

CuriousJim on Erowid.org, "The Loop: An Experience with Amanita Muscaria" [2004]

"Easy method for a full decarboxylation of ibotenic acid" by u/RdCrestdBreegull on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AmanitaMuscaria/comments/pf0e2k/easy_method_for_a_full_decarboxylation_of

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