Psilocybin Microdose

Psilocybin Microdose

How Do You Microdose With Psilocybin Mushrooms
Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms is a fairly straightforward process. Essentially, you need to source your medicine or grow your own. If you’re new to journeying, you may want to consider sourcing Golden Teachers due to their massive popularity and relatively mild effects. You can find mushroom grow kits online, but most will require you to obtain psilocybin spores first.

Once you’ve grown or acquired the medicine and then prepared your microdoses, consume the microdose at the appropriate time, and follow a month-long protocol to ensure you experience lasting benefits. We outline each one of these elements in more detail below.

Psilocybin Microdose

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Preparing Your Microdose
Preparing psilocybin mushrooms for microdosing involves more steps than microdosing with LSD, but is still straightforward. The trickiest part is estimating how much psilocybin is in a particular mushroom. Different strains of mushrooms will not only have different quantities of psilocybin, but fresh and dried psilocybin mushrooms do, too. Even different parts of the mushroom contain slightly different amounts.

Regardless, we recommend drying a batch of mushrooms, grinding them into a powder, and measuring out around 0.1g of as your starter microdose. From there, you can adjust the amount accordingly. When you take a dose that makes you feel some changes (most notably drowsiness, the first effect that comes on in a psilocybin trip), roll it back to just under that amount. That’s your mushroom microdose sweet spot.

Psilocybin Microdose

You can use any kind of psilocybin mushrooms for microdosing. The most popular ones are Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe semilanceata, Psilocybe azurecens, Psilocybe cyanescens, and Panaeolus but you can find over 180 different types in nature.

Check out our recent blog to learn more about magic mushroom varieties and their vast beneficial properties.

Just be aware of how much psilocybin content your strain contains. (For example, Penis Envy is one of the most potent of all magic mushrooms whereas Golden Teachers are a more approachable medium strength.) Then, adjust your microdose accordingly. You can learn about the potency levels of different Psilocybe strains at Erowid.

Read our full guide on preparing Psilocybin Mushrooms for microdosing here.

Psilocybin Microdose

Growing mushrooms from scratch is a worthwhile pursuit but it can be challenging to get right. If you’re interested in a more manageable method for home growth, check out Third Wave’s Grow Kit and Course, which includes instructions for sourcing mushroom spores.

How To Take Your Microdose
There are several ways to take your microdose. The most practical one is to precisely measure your dosages into empty capsules. This will ensure even distribution and also mask the taste.

Another option is to prepare a psilocybin tea by dissolving your desired dose of powder in hot water and even adding some honey. But feel free to experiment and mix the powder into (almost) any drink you take to start your day. However, we wouldn’t recommend you try Lemon Tekking, or mixing psilocybin mushrooms with citrus juice, because this concoction may intensify the experience beyond the sub-threshold level.

Psilocybin Microdose

How Do You Microdose With Psilocybin Mushrooms?
Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms is a fairly straightforward process. Essentially, you need to source your medicine or grow your own. If you’re new to journeying, you may want to consider sourcing Golden Teachers due to their massive popularity and relatively mild effects. You can find mushroom grow kits online, but most will require you to obtain psilocybin spores first.

Once you’ve grown or acquired the medicine and then prepared your microdoses, consume the microdose at the appropriate time, and follow a month-long protocol to ensure you experience lasting benefits. We outline each one of these elements in more detail below.

Get Third Wave’s Ultimate Guide to Sourcing Psychedelic Medicines for specific vendor recommendations, legal alternative options, and access to our entire library of psychedelic guides.

Psilocybin Microdose

Preparing Your Microdose
Preparing psilocybin mushrooms for microdosing involves more steps than microdosing with LSD, but is still straightforward. The trickiest part is estimating how much psilocybin is in a particular mushroom. Different strains of mushrooms will not only have different quantities of psilocybin, but fresh and dried psilocybin mushrooms do, too. Even different parts of the mushroom contain slightly different amounts.

Regardless, we recommend drying a batch of mushrooms, grinding them into a powder, and measuring out around 0.1g of as your starter microdose. From there, you can adjust the amount accordingly. When you take a dose that makes you feel some changes (most notably drowsiness, the first effect that comes on in a psilocybin trip), roll it back to just under that amount. That’s your mushroom microdose sweet spot.

Psilocybin Microdose

You can use any kind of psilocybin mushrooms for microdosing. The most popular ones are Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe semilanceata, Psilocybe azurecens, Psilocybe cyanescens, and Panaeolus but you can find over 180 different types in nature.

Check out our recent blog to learn more about magic mushroom varieties and their vast beneficial properties.

Just be aware of how much psilocybin content your strain contains. (For example, Penis Envy is one of the most potent of all magic mushrooms whereas Golden Teachers are a more approachable medium strength.) Then, adjust your microdose accordingly. You can learn about the potency levels of different Psilocybe strains at Erowid.

Read our full guide on preparing Psilocybin Mushrooms for microdosing here.

Growing mushrooms from scratch is a worthwhile pursuit but it can be challenging to get right. If you’re interested in a more manageable method for home growth, check out Third Wave’s Grow Kit and Course, which includes instructions for sourcing mushroom spores.

How To Take Your Microdose
There are several ways to take your microdose. The most practical one is to precisely measure your dosages into empty capsules. This will ensure even distribution and also mask the taste.

Another option is to prepare a psilocybin tea by dissolving your desired dose of powder in hot water and even adding some honey. But feel free to experiment and mix the powder into (almost) any drink you take to start your day. However, we wouldn’t recommend you try Lemon Tekking, or mixing psilocybin mushrooms with citrus juice, because this concoction may intensify the experience beyond the sub-threshold level.