SWIM tested this ratio a little more. Using UV light as a guide, assuming the elemicin is causing the DMSO to fluoresce bluish green in UV light, he extracted 1 ml of elemi oil with 1 ml of DMSO. That got a good portion of fluorescing compounds out of the elemi oil. He then extracted with 1 more ml of DMSO. The second extract did not fluoresce nearly as strongly. It seems like most of the elemicin (again, I’m assuming it’s the fluorescing compound) was extracting in the first DMSO extraction, and that a second DMSO extraction still pulled some but maybe 1/3 as much? A third extraction pulled very little and seems not to be needed.

SWIM is now using a 2:1 ratio of DMSO to elemi oil. This seems to be working well enough.

That’s about right but bifferent droppers make different sized drops. So I’m moving away from referencing doses by drops. It’s too inaccurate.

Try using sweetened milk. SWIM’s friends say it seems to work the best of all the methods tried so far. I think because it’s more of an actual food and so it stimulates digestion better. Once the DMSO dose is diluted in milk, and the milk is sweetened, it tastes sort of like eggnog. You can’t taste the DMSO.

Avoid caffeine unless the dose taken is near threshold. At doses above threshold, where it’s got clear psychedelic effects like a weak hit of acid, caffeine doesn’t mix well with elemicin, especially at the onset.