Thread: Herbs: timing their use

You should read Advanced Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Supplements to know what I am talking about but I would think that each herb would be different. You would need to know things like time to peak plasma levels and half-life elimination. Meaning, you would need to know when the highest concentrations would be in your blood and how fast your body eliminates it. Each substance would have different values. You can't just say all herbs are processed the same way.

I think most aids are best taken during WBTB with the exception of REM suppressors which should be taken pre-bed. As far as dose amounts and how you will ingest it. I would suggest just start experimenting on your own (Be safe and reasonable of course). Or do a search and see if anyone else has done any tests. That would give you a good place to start.

Sorry I'm no real expert on these things. This is just what I have learned on my own.

I read that book some years ago, and recall that the author was meticulous about timing the use of supplements based on the factors you also mentioned. He does not specifically involve himself with herbs though (as far as I can recall).

I had not thought about the various herbs being noticably different from one another in terms of the time required, by the digestive system, for breaking them down to their molecular level. But I suppose that you are right. This of course complicates matters, because we would then need specific data on the different types of herbs. In other words, collecting good data may actually require a lot of work.

Thank you for your insights.

Well you could use yourself as a guinea pig and tell us how it went.

It's possible some of that research(maybe a lot of it?) has already been done - if I were you I'd begin systematically doing websearches to see if it's available online or in book form somewhere. When I search for info on various dietary supplements I often find good info on nutritional or bodybuilding sites, or sometimes sites discussing alzheimer's medicine or something similar. Just search for each herb by name along with some of the other data you want, for instance "St. John's Wort peak plasma level" etc.

Use the format of Yuschak's book to guide you in what data to search for.

Good advice Darkmatters. Or try the dreamviews search!

I have begun, but being rather risk averse, I'm starting with quite small amounts, so it could take a while.

That sounds like a really good approach. Hopefully there is appropriate research out in the open, rather than all of it being locked away in journals, which can only be obtained through academic channels ("Go! Open source!" :-) ).