Alright Spiceman. I'll think up something for you to guinea pig for us.

Just be ready for some serious calamus nausea and vomiting if things don’t go right. This is the kind of nausea and vomiting that Nazi war criminals would wish on their enemies.

Fractional distillation is something SWIM can do but would rather not do. It’s like running a column. It’s boring as all hell. You sit there and take notes, and if you miss a point, you need to run it again. It’s time consuming.

There must be a better way to get rid of the nausea containing crap, but maybe there isn’t.

This site talks about use of calamus in India and says that “10 to 15 grams of the powder is emetic”:

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On that page it also says that “Alcohol extraction is sedative and analgesic, slows respiration and may lower blood pressure”. That’s interesting because SWIM’s acetone extraction did just that, but the water extract did not. The water extract was stimulating and didn’t effect breathing at all. So apparently alcohol and acetone are pulling a sedative that doesn’t get pulled so well with water. I wonder what that is? I’m guessing that’s beta-asarone. It’s a known sedative. Anyone know?