Thread: Calea Zacatechichi (Dream Herb)

It was yellowish, & I had to squeeze a whole lemon in because that bitter taste was better than the deeper bitter taste that tea gave me

Doesn't have any effect at all!

I just wanted to add, me and a few other people I know got no effects from Calea tea or smoking it. I am quite sure it was legitimate, as it was from a reputable vendor. Oh and to add, this tea is INCREDIBLY bitter. If anyone here uses/has used MDMA; the tastes are incomparable. MDMA is almost like candy compared to this stuff.

try to melt with chocolate or pills.

Ordered an ounce. Curious about the taste. Will report back any results soon.

Cool! I started about 20 seeds on 1-1-12. I heard a lot about how they are near impossible to germinate, but I got probably over 75% to germinate. They are growing very slow, but making progress! I think I'm going to make pills when I do this.

Can you post some pictures of the plants?

I must've planted around 30 seeds and none germinated.

Sure I'll put pictures on this and I'll say how I germinated them. It may have just been a good batch of seeds, I hear they need to be really fresh. I took the seed pod I ordered and soaked it in water for a good part of the day. Then I opened the seed pod and took all the seeds out. I used a "Hot House Seed Starter" thing. It consists of a heat pad on bottom and a plastic setup for drainage and one with compartments for the dirt and seeds to go and a clear plastic cover to keep humidity in (probably easy to diy). I filled the little compartments with eco earth coco fiber and dampened it. Then Placed the seeds on the eco earth, just lightly pressing them in (most of them were not under the substrate at all). Then left a cheap florescent grow light on top and misted every day. When they started to grow I stitched them into a real soil because coco fiber doesn't have any real nutrition. I think my success probably had a lot to do with the seeds themselves. here is a picture of one at 2 months and 19 days old (the present).

Nice work man! Maybe you are right, they just need to be really fresh.
The ones I got weren't even in a seed pod.

Well, I guess you have successfully debunked the myth that they are almost impossible to grow from seed! lol

i got a tincture from Iamshaman, and this too tastes terrible. Now i just put a few drops in a pill capsule and take that.

The first time i used it, i had one of the most vivid lucid dreams of my life. i also remembered every bit of it from start to finish, when i normally have little gaps in my memory. However, i have not yet had another lucid dream from the tincture since the first (ive used it maybe 2 or 3 times since then) so it might be a placebo effect... But it definitely caused some sort of change.
I think im going to try it again tonight hah

I read somewhere that the mexican medicine men would drink the tea while they were smoking some of the herbs before they went to sleep to find a long lost person or to find a cure for a sickness I think im gonna try this when i get mine.

Through my work, I am able to access some research files on tests that have been done with test subjects in regards to the effects of the species Calea zacatechichi (ternifolia)
(I am a biochemist working with plant genetics and have good relationship with universities)

Anyways, as a lucid dreamer, I was of course interested in the calea, so I read over the reports. The plant's foliage proved to be effective over placebo tests at enhancing dream vividness and recall, but no accounts of lucidity. Still these are good results. Another key point that was mention is that the supplement was most effective when taken regularly and had time to build up in the system.

Hope I could help you guys out. Remember, be responsible. Don't smoke it, just pack capsules. As well as getting inferior results, you will be harming your lungs. If you don't want to shell out the money, powder the foliage and roll the powder into balls with honey as the medium. This is what the chinese did.

Good luck, I will try to post an edit with a picture of one of my plants for you to get an idea of what the real deal looks like.

-Borislav

I make a WBTB tea blend using this but don't offer it in my shop since FDA has the plant listed as toxic and not fit for human consumption. I only sell my before bed blend which uses Mugwort and Wormwood along with other herbs.

The effects of the Calea Zacatechichi plant are almost instant which is why it works well for WBTB but not as well before bed when most of the effects have worn off by the time you get to sleep and reach REM. It is possible those that did not notice the effects was because they wore off before they could be beneficial.

As an addition to my previous post, in the test, the subjects were administered calea in capsules. I am not allowed to disclose the dose that was given, but it was probably about three leaves.

I am not going to post a picture because I have noticed that the leaves on the plant change so much. The leaves start off as a more rounded, serrated, yet still triangular shape, and then as they get older take on a more triangular shape. The difference between this one and the "non-bitter" as is commonly referenced, is that the true calea had red hues and light pigments of green.

I while ago, i made a herbal mixture and was able to fly through walls. Like smash through cement walls where i'd normally bounce through them.