Beaker Posted February 18, 2004 Anyone here been doing any experiments with coffee ?? There appears to be a fair bit of excitement about this: http://www.mycotopia.net/discus/messages/2...html?1075385094 http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.p...sb=5&o=&fpart=1 ________________________________________________ Cross posted from EBA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theobromos Posted February 19, 2004 Fascinating, the xanthines are very important in fungal metabolism. Olé su polla, whoever thought of this one. At the very least it is a fast, easily assimilable nitrogen source. I believe the sclerotia called Philosopher's Stones are more relaxed because of their content of adenosine which acts in the opposite sense as caffeine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rev Posted February 19, 2004 Maybe we should try No-doz and take out the variables Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest electro Posted February 19, 2004 or a simple caffiene extraction (decaffienation ) no acid or base hot water extract filter solids out combine liquid with dcm (distilled from paint thinner etc if you have no source for it) shake seperate & evap the dcm layer to dryness (full of caffeine xtals) there are school science projects on the net detailing this procedure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
