Acacia Thought-Experiment

[DaRealMcCloud]

Greetings fellow psychonauts,

SWIM has never experienced DMT so he thought wat more could be suitable to engage in this world by trying his own extraction.
SWIM has been prepearing for some time now and I feels confident to do his first extraction from acacia root bark soon.

After reading almost every Tek SWIM could find he decided to try a A/B Tek with re-x.
SWIM would like to hear from the community if he forgot something in his plans:
Acid: Phosphoric Acid
Base: Sodium Hydroxide
Extraction Solvent: Toluene
Re-X Solvent: n-Heptane

1. Transfeer the DMT-Salts from 100g plant-material to the aqueous phase with the help of heat and acid:
1.1 Fill stainless-steel pot with 500ml (distilled-) water. (maybe less min. 200ml)
1.2 Bring to PH of 4
1.3 Cook for 1hour
1.4 Prepear second pot mark 650ml
1.5 Filter well, keep the liquid.

Repeat 2 times to a totall of 3 times.

1.6 combine all 3 liquids and reduce to 650ml (good ventilation!)

2. Increase the ionic srength of the aqueous phase:
2.1 Saturate the Water with rock salt (36g per 100ml water at 25C)

3. Convert DMT-Salts in DMT-Freebase by changing the PH of the aqueous phase
3.1 Let the liquid cool down to room temperature!
3.2 Bring the PH slowly to 14. (WARNING: Exotermic reaction)
3.3 Move to glass bottle. (Seperation-Funnel)

4. Move the DMT-Freebase from the aqueous phase to the organic phase:
4.1 Add 100ml warm extraction solvent to the warm aqueous phase. (use solvent from last extraction if available) no flames!
4.2 Mix, release pressure, repeat for 5 minutes
4.3 Let the Layers seperate.
4.4 Move top layer to large covered glas dish.

5. Let the crystals slowly form as the soulabilety of the DMT-Freebase in the solvent decrases with temerature.
5.1 Let the solvent slowly coold down to room temperature
5.2 Move to the fridge.
5.3 Put in the freezer overnight. (cooler and longer is better)

6. Recover product and solvent
6.1 Decant (filter) the solvent of the crystals and store in glas container.
6.2 Turn the glash dish upside down and let dry.
6.3 Llet dry some more (with the help of fan, do not heat the dish)
6.4 Scrape Crystals (or goo) with a razorblade into a labled glas container.

Repeat steps 4, 5 & 6 until no more crystals perticipate out.

Neutralize and throw away aqueous phase, keep the solvent for future extractions in a labled glas jar. (metal lid with rubber seal ok ? or only glas lid ?)

7. Re-Crystilization
7.3 Place contaiminated product in a small glas container in a warm waterbath
7.2 Add re-x solvent and swirl untill all crystals have disolved.
7.3 Ttransfeer the solvent to a large glas dish leaving the sediment.
7.4 Add smaller amount of re-x solvent, swirl and transfeer.
7.5 Let the solvent evaporate, scrape up the clean crystals.

The sediment can be keept for future re-ex.

Please do attempt the procedure described above, it has never been tested and is a thought-experiment. Once this has been done pictures will be posted.

Any comments, suggestions or discovered flaw would be much appreciated.

 

[BringsUsTogether]

Based on a quick read through, I think you're good. This seems like a normal tek to me.

Usually we don't use SWIM around here anymore though; it offers virtually 0 protection. Much better to just use tor browser.

 

[DaRealMcCloud]

Thanks for the Info BringUsTogether.

I do have one question though.
I was wondering if there is any information available on the solubility of DMT-Salts in water, like how many mg can be solved in 100ml water ?
I am trying to find out how much water I need minimum for extraction without loosing yields
or to be more precise to what volume I can reduce the collected liquids from multiple acid-boils ?

I guess that 3ml water per 1g of bark might be enough but I simply do not know.

 

[Chan]

I guess that 3ml water per 1g of bark might be enough but I simply do not know.

Way too little. Why are you limiting water? If that's an important factor, maybe look at dry-teks? Otherwise, wet-teks use liberal water for boils, which is then reduced to a workable volume. At just 3:1 you'll basically be burning fibrous mud :?: