Skullcap, Lotus, Kava, Salvia, Fly Argic

[drkelmnt]

Hello good friends! I have been inspired by someone on these forums to further venture in to less commonly known natural psychedelics, some of which included in the title. I just wanted to post down a couple of questions, and a couple of comments in hopes that someone here can lend a hand.
Firstly, I just want to say how shocked I am at the lack of a Scutellaria (Skullcap) Vault on Erowids!

Well I can't seem to find much information on the plant Scutellaria Lateriflora. I recently obtained roughly 50g of ground plant material, I've tried smoking this and to no avail. Imagine going out in your yard and pulling out some weeds to smoke! Does anyone know any information on this such as the active chemicals and what they are soluble in? As of right now the herb is to harsh to smoke and wish to do an extraction of the active compounds to further document this herb, any ideas?


Lotus: Basically the same thing, I have a rather large ammout of Blue Lotus leaves and even after massive amounts of smoke, no noticeable effects that can't be accredited to simple placebo seemed to happen. Extraction methods?

So if you haven't caught on, that's the idea. I would like to generate extracts of these compounds to make dosing possible, and document information for the future Pshyconaut Generation.
One thing that really caught my mind though is the Fly Argic Mushroom. As we all know (well the majority of us I hope) that the main active chemical is Muscimul (Think I spelt that right...). It would seem to be much easier, and effective to dose on an extract.
What pulls me most to this mushroom was something from the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, Jan-Mar 1976 by Jonathon Ott.

The experience was totally pleasurable, and lasted about seven hours. I was struck by the unique quality of the effect whereas I find the psychic effects of LSD, psilocybin-containing mushrooms, and peyote to be similar, to be, as it were, on a continuum of related experience, I felt the A. pantherina was distinctly different.

Although, I am discouraged by the lack of reports of Amanita's on these boards. I look forward to discussion of these and many other plants from all of you!