Hello!

Recently I made 2 extracts of wormwood in my soxhlet. The first was 12g of wormwood extracted with acetone for around 3 hours, then evaporated on a Petri dish. What left was 0,5g of solid dark green tarry residue that I mixed with 0,7g tobacco to produce a 10x extract.

The second was with 32g of wormwood extracted with 97% ethanol for about 7 hours, then evaporated on a Petri dish. What left was a dark greenish oily goo, after 1 day of evaporating it hasn't solidified much yet. Initially I thought of mixing it with tobacco too but if it won't get more solid I don't know how will I weight it and how much tobacco I need to use.

And anyway I'm not sure if this is the right way to smoke it (mixed with tobacco). I tried to smoke the first extract in a small glass pipe. I became very sleepy, after I closed my eyes dreams were coming quite intensively even before I felt to sleep. I'm not sure if it was just because it was late, it might have been placebo.

Has anyone tried to smoke wormwood or wormwood extract? Any advise?

I'm not even sure if a 10x extract is strong or weak...

Google search brought up at least 1 page of results on smoking.
Some reports from erowid, other forums, etc.
Read through some of those & see if you can't find any solid info.

I'd say you should still take it slow with an extract of unknown potency (variations in alkaloid content can dramatically effect the strength of your extract).
Study up as much as you can & take the time to work with your extract.
I'm interested in seeing how this plays out though
Post your results.

And anyway I'm not sure if this is the right way to smoke it (mixed with tobacco). I tried to smoke the first extract in a small glass pipe. I became very sleepy, after I closed my eyes dreams were coming quite intensively even before I felt to sleep. I'm not sure if it was just because it was late, it might have been placebo.

Has anyone tried to smoke wormwood or wormwood extract? Any advise?

I'm not even sure if a 10x extract is strong or weak...[/quote]

Sounds like you may have discovered a new ..[dream supliment].. if dreams came on that quickly?!

I would still be cautious..

Wormwood indeed has somewhat of a steep dosage curve and interesting effect. However this plant can be dangerous. Absinthe is good source but I do highly encourage safe use with that fairy liquid.. she might lead one astray.. it's a wild experience. I've smoked salvia officinalis that has small amounts of thujone, which is a constituent that is also in absinthe. It can lead to very toxic effects if enough wormwood or thujone is smoked or extracted.

How do your extracts smell? I've not tried smoking it but strong wormwood tea has an odd effect that I've not yet developed the vocabulary to describe - mostly due to the intensely bitter taste making repeat experiments unappealing. Furthermore, I foolishly combined it with smoking a synthetic cannabinoid blend and got the equivalent of a hyperslap

I may yet try this. (I tend to drink my ethanolic extracts of wormwood )

From what I gather, that green fairy liquid should keep your hands as soft as your face

I did not see a warning sign in that commercial for highly flammable contents.

"This is how my dreams were. Just wizzing by"

dreams

I did a second try with my extracts. Firstly I mixed the alcohol extract with a little tobacco and weighted it, then, knowing how much I added ended up with a 6,7x extract. It was a sticky mass of dark greenish tobacco now, I filled my little glass pipe with it and start smoking. It was hard to inhale because of its consistency, and with the fire it started to clog the pipe even more. So the first conclusion is that with alcohol extract this method of smoking isn't good. Next time I should use a bong maybe?

But the smoke itself was pretty pleasant, but I guess there was no effects at all. I felt some "buzz" but it was rather tobacco because I don't smoke. And I had one beer too.

So I decided to mix the two extracts and try another pipe. It clogged it too and again I needed to make huge effort to inhale the fumes. This time the smoke was less pleasant, distinctly harsher.

I guess I didn't feel anything too. If I did though, this stuff must be very mild then... I'm still left with some 5 g of it and I'll be trying it more. It's written here and there that wormwood seem to have a synergetic effect to alcohol and MJ. We'll see...



Do You mean that it's so hard to dose it because eg. one pipe can leave You with nothing and two may be too much? If You smoked S.O., then what was Your experience?

I've not smoked wormwood.. only salvia officinalis which has small amounts of thujone and other compounds.. a very small amount exists in absinthe (which is alcoholic wormwood and other various herbs / spices). The liquid is quite potent and needs to be carefully taken and mixed with cold water which infuses into misty substance.

Traditional absinthe with sugar cube / waterfall method. Milky, fairy, wormwoody goodness.