This plant seems much stronger than the Bleeding Heart I previously experimented with.
The leaves are more bitter and I noticed a head-space change after just one or two small leaves.
I was reading on websites that the plant has been used to treat the gallbladder and liver.
While overdose doses of the plant or when mixed with hepatoxic compounds, can be toxic to the liver.
Quote:Consistent with the Doctrine of Signatures, the yellow sap obtained from Chelidonium majus denoted that it was useful for treating liver disorders, for instance jaundice.
The website kerelsk posted claimed it to be good for the eyes. Which makes sense if it is good for the liver, eastern medicine claims positive states or influence of the liver to be beneficial to the eyes, as they are on the same energy meridian.
This was the first effect I noticed, my eyes sharpened up quite a bit, and in quite a different way than most psychoactive drugs like psychedelics cause, but it's hard to explain just how.
One website claimed that the best time to harvest is in the spring when it is in bloom, which is now. That may be why I feel a change in headspace after one or two leaves.
I have now lost count, but have eaten around 6 leaves.
Mental effects at this dosage seem to be lightly analgesic and sedative, anti-anxiety tranquility to the mind; possibly some mental fog. Hard to pinpoint, as effects are threshold at this level.
When I first noticed the change in visual perception, I thought I noticed a wavy flowing to the text on the screen, but am not seeing that now. Another subtle effect was a few moments of a trippy sensation of an outward expanding of sort-of mental perception of my place within my body.
Some sites report the yellow latex blood of the plant that you see when you rip it, moreso in the stems, to be acrid and irritant. I got some on my hands and it has not irritated them at all, nor my mouth. Though it tastes hot and there is maybe a slight numbing of the mouth; definitely an effect on it.
I also noticed a slight slowing of heart rate and an energetic feeling there, nothing to alarm me, but it did cause an awareness. I then read
Quote:celandine also contains the alkaloid sparteine that facilitates in restoring the regular pace to weak arrhythmic myocardial.
For months I have been feeling some arrhythmia, tension, and sensations of weakness in the heart and have started taking hawthorn berry for it. I believe this initiated with bad drug combinations involving nitrates and possibly use of anabolic compounds. So lots of drugs make me extra aware of my heart-rhythm.
Sorry for such a long post. Anyone experimenting may want to first sample a small amount to test for irritant reactions of the latex contained in the plant. I have not heard of it happening, but wouldn't want anyone's mouth or throat to swell from an allergic reaction.
And after a test dose perhaps, smoking dried plant material may be good recreationally.
I am drying some now to test that purpose.
Also of note:
Quote:Coptisine has been found to reversibly inhibit Monoamine oxidase A in mice, pointing to a potential role as a natural antidepressant.