Asymbescaline
Asymbescaline, also known as 3,4-diethoxy-5-methoxyphenethylamine, is a psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine and scaline families related to mescaline. It is the analogue of mescaline in which the methoxy groups at the 3 and 4 positions have been replaced with ethoxy groups.
Use and effects
In his book PiHKAL and other publications, Alexander Shulgin lists asymbescaline's dose as 200 to 280mg orally and its duration as 10 to 15hours. The time to peak was approximately 2hours.The effects of asymbescaline were reported to include a lack of visual and interpretive richness, few if any of the "open interactions" of other psychedelics like 2C-B or LSD, daydreaming, and visions while trying to sleep, and "some negative side". One report described it as a "sort of gentler sister of mescaline", but with a tendency to emphasize the negative such as sadness and struggle. Another report described it as "like being in a corridor outside the lighted halls where a beautiful mescaline experience is taking place, sensing the light from behind a grey door, and not being able to find my way in from the dusky underside passageways". Physical and other side effects included some "body load, physical weirdness, heart rate changes, and insomnia and sleep disruption. Per Shulgin, the consensus from over a half dozen tests was that there was not enough value with the drug to offset its body load.