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Mad Honey From Nepal: Cliff Harvest and Honey Hunters

Himalayan mad honey comes from the world's largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa, which builds its combs on high cliff faces in Nepal. Gurung honey hunters harvest it twice a year on handmade rope ladde...

Damiana Liqueur and Margaritas: A Home Infusion

Damiana liqueur is a Baja tradition. Here is a simple home steep with dried damiana leaf, a syrup to sweeten it, and a damiana margarita to finish.

How to Tell Good Dried Amanita Caps from Bad: Grade, Color and Lab Testing

Good dried amanita caps are firm, fully dry, deep red to orange on top with a pale underside, and come with a batch lab test showing muscimol and ibotenic acid content. Bad caps are brown, soft, mo...

Microdosing Amanita Muscaria: What the Baba Masha Survey Actually Found

The Baba Masha survey is the largest collection of amanita muscaria microdosing reports that exists: over 3,000 respondents answering a 107-item questionnaire about their experiences with small, su...

Amanita Muscaria for Sleep: How Muscimol Works on GABA

Muscimol, the main active compound in amanita muscaria, is a direct GABA-A receptor agonist. GABA is the brain's primary inhibitory signal, so activating those receptors slows things down, which is...

Is 7-OH Banned Now? The DEA's New 1 mg per Gram Threshold (October 2026)

The DEA published a new 7-OH notice on October 14 with a 1 mg per gram threshold, and the order cannot issue before November 13. Also this week: the FDA's ibogaine trial request for information, th...

Amanita Muscaria Dosage Guide: Caps, 15:1 Extract and Muscimol by the Milligram

Most user reports put a first dried cap dose at 0.5 to 1 gram, a moderate dose at 2 to 5 grams, and anything past that firmly in experienced territory. Extracts and isolate are measured in milligra...

What Is Damiana? Meet the Turnera diffusa Plant

Damiana is Turnera diffusa, a sweet-smelling shrub from Texas, Mexico and the Caribbean. Here is the botany, the range and the compounds in the leaf.

What Is Mad Honey? Rhododendron Honey Explained

Mad honey is honey made by bees that feed on certain rhododendron flowers. The nectar of those plants carries natural compounds called grayanotoxins. They give the honey a reddish tone, a bitter, t...

Matcha vs. Kava: Which One Suits You?

Matcha and Kava may both be plant-based beverages, but their stories are very different. From matcha's vibrant green tea leaves to Kava's traditional South Pacific roots, learn how they compare in ...

Lab Results: Field Grown Kanna Leaf, Report PHY-2026-786 (1.14 mg/g Total Alkaloids)

Third post in the Lab Results series, and the first one on raw plant material instead of an extract. This is our field grown kanna leaf, sold as loose leaf. The report is the newest one on our page...

Lab Results: Kava Resin 85% Kavalactone, Lot 24-12-KAV-OL-03 (85.4% Total Kavalactones)

Cora Science reported 85.4% total kavalactones on lot 24-12-KAV-OL-03 of our kava resin, issued April 14, 2025. Here is what an 85% figure on a resin actually describes and how to match the lot.