Lemon Tek: Get The Most Out Of Your Psilocybin Mushroom Experience

Soaking your Psilocybin Mushrooms in a Lemon acid bath will increase the psychedelic effects and take away the nausea and body tension most users feel when consuming whole mushrooms. Lemon Tek is one of several ways to mix up your psychedelic experience. Potent and fast, it can turn a small dose of magic mushrooms into a cosmic high.

 Lemon teking is a chemical process by which the acidity of the Lemons starts breaking down and converting the active hallucinogen psilocybin into psilocin, the bioavailable hallucinogenic compound. This acidic conversion enables compounds more bioavailability, so when they hit your stomach as an extract, you start feeling the effects more quickly than when you eat raw mushroom material. A major benefit is that the shortened duration allows for intense trips without the increased risk of the unpleasant side effects associated with consuming whole mushrooms.

Psilocin is a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance. It is present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. The mind-altering effects of psilocin are highly variable, subjective and resemble those of LSD and DMT.

When using the Lemon Tek method, psilocin hits your stomach already converted by the PH acidity of the Lemons. Your body doesn’t have to compensate and break down the psilocybin, it’s ready to digest as an active chemical ready to pass through the blood brain barrier. The majority of a mushroom’s psilocybin and psilocin are held in its cell walls, but unlike plants which have cell walls made of cellulose, fungi’s cell walls are made out of chitin, which is harder to digest. The acids in the lemons start breaking down that chitin before the mushrooms enter your digestive system. In fact, our bodies don’t have all the necessary enzymes to digest raw mushrooms. Citrus Fruits high in Vitamin C such as lemons and oranges, have antioxidant effects, which might also be playing a role in protecting the psilocin from oxidizing. One of the most common reasons people Lemon Tek is they feel a noticeable decrease in nausea and GI upset. Many Psychonauts experience a much shorter come-up, come-down, and overall trip in general. And so, if mushrooms generally take somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes to kick in, with the peak coming at around three hours or so, Lemon Teking kicks in anywhere from 10 to 45 minutes (depending on if you had any food in your stomach), with the peak coming on a lot sooner. As far as the total length of your trip, it’ll depend on your dose, but if mushrooms generally last six to eight hours, expect a lemon Tek journey to last more like four to six. Eating raw dried mushrooms is more like an extended-release trip because it takes your stomach so much longer to break everything down, and so your come-up, peak, and come-down take much longer than when you Lemon Tek.

STEPS TO LEMON TEK

Step One: Grind up your shrooms or truffles into a powder by using a coffee or cannabis grinder (blender could also work) and place them in a small glass.

Step Two: Squeeze the juice of one to two lemons over the powdered shrooms so that they’re completely covered in juice. Make sure that you cover it completely. Leave this to sit for about 25 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes or so. Although there is no exact time frame for this conversion, once psilocybin has converted into psilocin, it can oxidize, at which point it breaks down. As such, don’t leave it for much longer than this or you will degrade the potency. Optional: Some folks like to put their shrooms and lime/lemon juice in a shaker and constantly move it around during this time, while setting their intentions.

Step Three: Filter the juice through filter paper or a cheesecloth to obtain pure mushroom juice and discard the mushrooms. This is good for reducing nausea but could significantly reduce the potency depending on how successful the conversion was. Drinking the juice with the grinded shrooms will give you the strongest results.

Step Four: Drink as a shot.

Optional if nausea is your main concern: Strain the mushroom bits out of your citrus juice using a cheese cloth or a few coffee filters. Be sure to squeeze all the juice out into a glass. Then consume the juice only and discard the mushroom bits in a safe place.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING THE LEMON TEK?

Significantly faster come-up: As the conversion of psilocybin into psilocin takes place outside the body, the uptake time in the body is much more rapid.

More powerful high: Though this is disputed, most users report the effects coming on stronger and harder than when eaten plain or drunk as a tea. Intense visual high.

Shorter-lasting high: For some this is a benefit, for others a drawback. As the conversion has already happened, the body can process the psilocin faster.

Tastes better: Chewing grams of dry shrooms can be tiresome and nauseating. Turning them into a lemon juice shot or tea, can make them easier to consume.

Reduces nausea: The acid in the lemon juice is thought to break down some of the chitin in the shrooms' cell walls. This is one of the main suspects for the nausea experienced on magic mushrooms (if you suffer very badly from nausea, mushroom tea might be for you, as you need not consume any chitin)