Mush Magic Truffle Mexicana – 15 grams

1. Mush Magic Truffle Mexicana — 15 grams

Fifteen grams of fresh Psilocybe mexicana sclerotia from the Mush Magic range. If you want a warm, creative experience that stays manageable, this is where the range starts and where we would suggest you start too.

Magic truffles are sclerotia: underground masses of hardened mycelium that certain fungi build as nutrient reserves under stress. They carry the same active compounds as the above-ground mushroom — psilocybin and psilocin — in a denser, better-keeping form.

This product comes with two sets of published figures, one measured fresh and one dry. That is unusually transparent and also unusually easy to misread, so section 3 takes them apart properly.

2. Specifications

3. Fresh and dry

Two sets of numbers appear on this page and they measure different things. Confusing them is the single most common error in this entire subject, and it is an error in the direction of taking far too much.

3.1 Three things to take from that

1. Never compare a dry figure to a fresh weight. Most published research on mushrooms uses dry weight; most product packs are sold fresh. Reading across the two without adjusting is how people take several times what they intended.
2. The fresh range is nearly threefold. 59.3 to 167.8 is real biological variation between batches and individual sclerotia. No arithmetic will give you a precise dose.
3. Use the stated gram ranges, not the micrograms. 0.5 to 2 g to microdose, 5 to 7.5 g for a mild experience, 10 to 15 g for a full one. Those are the numbers to act on.

Mexicana’s low end of that range is exactly what makes it the right first purchase: the margin between a pleasant afternoon and more than you wanted is wider here than anywhere else in the Mush Magic range.

4. Preparation and use

4.1 Getting it right

1. Use a scale that reads to a tenth of a gram. This is the one piece of equipment worth owning.
2. Eat lightly two or three hours before, then nothing.
3. Chew, or make a tea in hot but not boiling water. Fifteen minutes is enough.
4. Ninety minutes before any second thought about more.
5. Give the day to it. Four to six hours plus a tail, and a night you want free.

4.2 Setting

• Have a sober sitter present. Someone who stays sober, stays in the room and knows what you have taken.
• Sit or lie down before you start. Do not stand, walk or handle anything.
• Clear the space. No open flames, no stairs, nothing breakable within reach.
• Have a trip stopper to hand. Knowing it is there matters even if you never use it.
• Nothing else alongside it. No alcohol, no cannabis, no other substance.

4.3 Cautions

• Not for anyone under 18.
• Not during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
• Do not use if you or a close family member has a history of psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or another serious psychiatric condition. Psychedelics can precipitate episodes in people who are predisposed, and this is the caution we would least like you to skip.
• Do not combine with SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs or lithium without medical advice. Lithium alongside psychedelics is associated with serious adverse events including seizures.
• Do not combine with alcohol, cannabis or any other substance.
• Do not drive or operate machinery for the rest of the day.
• Nausea in the first hour is common. Eat lightly beforehand rather than not at all.
• Keep refrigerated and out of reach of children and pets.

Dry weight and fresh weight are not the same number and never were. Fresh sclerotia are two thirds water, and reading across the two is how people take several times what they meant to.