Thanks for all this work

I followed _Trip_'s published TEK (in his signature) with a few simplifications (no seed toast or washes). The process is similar to what Woolmer did and product looks similar.

- Ground 4g of seeds on a mortar and pestle

- Mixed in 1g of Na2CO3 and 3g of water which was plenty to wet it all. I'll use even less water next time.

- Dried in the oven at low heat (170F).

- Single acetone pull (~40ml, did not measure exactly)

- Dried over CaCl2, decanted/filtered acetone

- Added a dash of benzoic acid to acetone. Didn't cloud so I though I had failed...

- Put in the fridge since the TEK says to be patient...

- Seeing beautiful xtals this morning (see first image). What a nice surprise!

- Caught xtals in filtere and washed with acetone. Also ground them up for intranasal route. They are sparkly and slightly tan (second pictute).

I think I have enough to do a bioassay. Up the nose? Dosage? I know nothing about bufotenine, so following in Ott's intranasal suggestions (see attached) will start at 20mg for the benzoate salt (Ott used free base up to 100mg).

Notes: I guess the oven dry dry also toasted oils and proteins (?). Perhaps if the intial toast is ommited a heated dry is necessary (?). Or maybe no heat is overall OK and perhaps better if bufotenine is sensitive to heat(?). Skipped the boiling naphtha and xylene cleans hoping that benzoic acid is selective and the smaller ammount of benzoates can be washed later if needed. Finally, how does bufotenine dissolve in acetone? Sodium carbonate should add OH- to it and make it not soluble in acetone (???). Perhaps drying with heat makes bufotenine neutral????????????? Drying alkaline mescaline paste with heat makes it insoluble in solvents which has allways baffled me (wetting the paste makes mescaline soluble in solvents again). Perhaps drying can change some alkaloids???

Cheers