GratefulDad
Rising Star
This tek was adapted from Chris Jenks' extraction notes found elsewhere on the internet. I have added the measurements used in panoramix's tek, to be more precise, so thanks to both of you! I have modified it slightly per my own tek, developed with Chris Jenks' help, and have added precise measurements from reading panroramix's tek. It is nice to have more precise measurements, rather than just going by eye and careful titration. So here goes:
The Extraction:
What you need: Plain white distilled vinegar, a stainless steel, ceramic, HDPE, or non-reactive container, janitorial strength (10%+) non-sudsy ammonia, distilled water, a funnel, coffee filters, old t-shirt, and the iboga bark.
Optional for added purity: Acetone, muriatic acid (28-36% HCl), and Everclear (95% pure ethanol).
1: Take the bark, and make sure it's as fine of a powder as possible.
2: Add enough vinegar to thoroughly cover the bark. A good measurement for the vinegar is about 5 times the amount (volume) of vinegar to the weight of bark.
In this instance 40g of bark times 5 would be about 200 mls of vinegar per soak. One may need slightly more in the first couple extractions to thoroughly cover the bark, and excess can be used safely, however it will lengthen the time of filtering later, so try and keep the volumes minimal.
3: The bark can be stirred occasionally, and left to sit for at least one hour.
Adding heat makes the bark harder to filter, and isn't necessary.
4: After an hour has passed, one needs to filter the bark from the vinegar with a cloth t-shirt. Squeeze out the bark to gather all the vinegar and save this. The bark is then returned to the container for another soak. This should be done 4 times to be sure to get out all the alkaloids.
5: While letting the bark soak again, as in the previous steps, Filter the collected vinegar through coffee filters.
This can take a long time to filter, since the coffee filters clog easily, and may need to be replaced often. Have patience though. If you can leave it sitting in the funnel, with a filter, the juice will eventually pass through. This filtering isn't 100% necessary but it will remove all the fine plant particles from the solution, so the initial extraction will come out much cleaner, so it's a good idea.
6: Once all the vinegar has been collected and filtered through a coffee filter, you have two options.
The first would be to evaporate the vinegar a bit, by using low heat and a fan. Under boiling is fine to reduce the vinegar, and will make it easier to deal with less liquid. You don't want to evaporate it to thickness though, just enough to make it easy to work with in a smaller container. The second option is to skip the evaporation and proceed directly to the next step.
7: Once you have all your vinegar collected, and evaporated a good bit, if you like, you are ready to add the ammonia. You can slowly pour ammonia into the vinegar, to make it basic. pH papers aren't needed, but if used, just make sure the pH is above 10.1.
As you add the ammonia, the solution will heat slightly, and you will see cloudy precipitate forming. You can add more ammonia, to be sure, as too much won't hurt, it will just add to the amount of solution that needs to be filtered, which can take awhile.
8: Now, if left to settle, the precipitate (freebase total alkaloids) will sink to the bottom of the container. The majority of the clear solution at the top can be siphoned off, and filtered to be sure no precipitate is in it.
If it looks clear, not cloudy, though, all the precipitate should have sunken to the bottom. By removing a large portion of the upper clear (tea color) water, this will allow you to have much less solution to filter out your alkaloids. You can save everything you siphoned off and add more ammonia later, to be sure you got out all the freebase alkaloids.
9: Now you can filter the muddy solution through coffee filters again.
Filtering this can take a good bit as the precipitate begins to clog the filter, but again, be patient, as the solution will eventually pass through the filter completely. This may take overnight, so don't worry if it takes a long time. Once you have filtered the solution, you can set aside the clear tea colored water for later, to add more ammonia, and be sure you collected all the precipitate.
10: You should now have a coffee filter with all the brown freebase precipitate stuck to it. You should then add a liberal amount of distilled water to the filter in the funnel. You will thoroughly rinse the precipitate with the distilled water to wash away any extra impurities.
Again, waiting for the water to pass through the alkaloid coated coffee filter may take awhile, so just have patience.
11: This precipitate can then be placed in front of a fan with a warm air current, away from UV light, and left to dry.
This is now your crude freebase total alkaloid extract. This can be capped when dry and used as is, and should be much cleaner than the simple vinegar extraction. However, for those of us that want it much more pure, there are two options.
First option:
1: Take the filter with the dried crusty precipitate and break up the filtrate to a fine powder. You can use the same filter, or take a new one and place it in a funnel that is plugged (SWIM uses a two liter bottle with the bottom cut off for a funnel, so capping the opening can seal it, but a finger may be used). Add the filtrate to the plugged funnel.
2: Let the vinegar sit, maybe stir it around a bit in the filter, then let it drain through, and save the vinegar.
3: You can repeat with fresh vinegar another time, and collect all the vinegar.
4: Add ammonia to the vinegar again, to precipitate the alkaloids, which should be even cleaner this time.
5: Re-filter out all the alkaloids, and let dry as above.
This can now be used as is and should be even cleaner.
Second (more involved) option:
Okay so you have your brown precipitate in your coffee filter, now dried up, from the first portion of the extraction.
1: You now, take your acetone and add 15 mls of acetone per gram of freebase TA extract (brown crud), and soak the filter with it. You can stir around the precipitate in the filter, and wash two or three times with acetone. The filter should contain any bark crud that got through, and any other impurities.
This will remove the alkaloids from the solid filtrate, since the freebase is soluble in acetone.
2: Take your muriatic acid, and add it very slowly, to the acetone. You must do this dropwise, and watch as the precipitate forms. (one milliliter for each six grams of TA) is added in small portions, slowly, until the precipitation of solid begins.
Adding too much can start to redissolve the ibogaine. You can add a few drops at a time, and watch as the precipitate forms. When it stops forming, you can place this into the fridge, to chill for a few hours, before filtering, and this will increase the yield. You can add more acid a second time to the acetone after filtering the first precipitate to be sure you got it all.
3: Filter out the ibogaine HCl.
This is nearly pure ibogaine HCl, but there may be a bit left in the acetone, and all the other alkaloids will also be in the acetone. You can evaporate some of the acetone with a fan and low heat, then treat it with the muriatic acid again, and harvest any more crystals of ibogaine HCl that precipitate. Filter it out as well and add it to the first filtrate.
4: If you would like pure ibogaine HCl, without the other alkaloids, you can take the ibogaine HCl crystals, and dissolve it in boiling ethanol.
The boiling ethanol should be added dropwise, just until all the ibogaine HCl has dissolved.
5: This ethanol solution is then left to cool in the fridge and the ibogaine will recrystallize.
This will make the ibogaine HCl form much more pure crystals and can remove some of the ibogamine/ibogaline if still present in the precipitate. It is not necessary unless going for 98%+ purity, and repeated recrystallizations can yield very pure ibogaine HCl, but can cost a bit of yield.
When this is dry, it is ready to take.
6: For those who want to recover all the alkaloids, so they can take a complete total alkaloid extract of high purity, they should take the acetone that they salted out the ibogaine HCl, and evaporate it in front of a fan with warm air current.
The resulting leftover alkaloids will be an unstable oil.
7: Dissolve this oil in distilled water.
8: Add ammonia to this water with the oil dissolved into it.
You will again see the freebase residual alkaloids precipitate out of the water/ammonia solution.
9: Filter out the freebase alkaloids, and rinse again thoroughly with distilled water.
10: Let the freebase residual alkaloids dry completely.
You can then add your freebase residual alkaloids to your ibogaine HCl, and capsulize it. Freebases will be converted to the HCl salts in your stomach, so turning them into the HCl salt before ingesting is unnecessary.
So there you have it folks. If you want a very pure extract in which you only need to take a gram or two of extract, versus 7-8 g of brown gunk, then this is how to do it! The purity should help eliminate some of the nausea and should also be absorbed very quickly by the system.
The Extraction:
What you need: Plain white distilled vinegar, a stainless steel, ceramic, HDPE, or non-reactive container, janitorial strength (10%+) non-sudsy ammonia, distilled water, a funnel, coffee filters, old t-shirt, and the iboga bark.
Optional for added purity: Acetone, muriatic acid (28-36% HCl), and Everclear (95% pure ethanol).
1: Take the bark, and make sure it's as fine of a powder as possible.
2: Add enough vinegar to thoroughly cover the bark. A good measurement for the vinegar is about 5 times the amount (volume) of vinegar to the weight of bark.
In this instance 40g of bark times 5 would be about 200 mls of vinegar per soak. One may need slightly more in the first couple extractions to thoroughly cover the bark, and excess can be used safely, however it will lengthen the time of filtering later, so try and keep the volumes minimal.
3: The bark can be stirred occasionally, and left to sit for at least one hour.
Adding heat makes the bark harder to filter, and isn't necessary.
4: After an hour has passed, one needs to filter the bark from the vinegar with a cloth t-shirt. Squeeze out the bark to gather all the vinegar and save this. The bark is then returned to the container for another soak. This should be done 4 times to be sure to get out all the alkaloids.
5: While letting the bark soak again, as in the previous steps, Filter the collected vinegar through coffee filters.
This can take a long time to filter, since the coffee filters clog easily, and may need to be replaced often. Have patience though. If you can leave it sitting in the funnel, with a filter, the juice will eventually pass through. This filtering isn't 100% necessary but it will remove all the fine plant particles from the solution, so the initial extraction will come out much cleaner, so it's a good idea.
6: Once all the vinegar has been collected and filtered through a coffee filter, you have two options.
The first would be to evaporate the vinegar a bit, by using low heat and a fan. Under boiling is fine to reduce the vinegar, and will make it easier to deal with less liquid. You don't want to evaporate it to thickness though, just enough to make it easy to work with in a smaller container. The second option is to skip the evaporation and proceed directly to the next step.
7: Once you have all your vinegar collected, and evaporated a good bit, if you like, you are ready to add the ammonia. You can slowly pour ammonia into the vinegar, to make it basic. pH papers aren't needed, but if used, just make sure the pH is above 10.1.
As you add the ammonia, the solution will heat slightly, and you will see cloudy precipitate forming. You can add more ammonia, to be sure, as too much won't hurt, it will just add to the amount of solution that needs to be filtered, which can take awhile.
8: Now, if left to settle, the precipitate (freebase total alkaloids) will sink to the bottom of the container. The majority of the clear solution at the top can be siphoned off, and filtered to be sure no precipitate is in it.
If it looks clear, not cloudy, though, all the precipitate should have sunken to the bottom. By removing a large portion of the upper clear (tea color) water, this will allow you to have much less solution to filter out your alkaloids. You can save everything you siphoned off and add more ammonia later, to be sure you got out all the freebase alkaloids.
9: Now you can filter the muddy solution through coffee filters again.
Filtering this can take a good bit as the precipitate begins to clog the filter, but again, be patient, as the solution will eventually pass through the filter completely. This may take overnight, so don't worry if it takes a long time. Once you have filtered the solution, you can set aside the clear tea colored water for later, to add more ammonia, and be sure you collected all the precipitate.
10: You should now have a coffee filter with all the brown freebase precipitate stuck to it. You should then add a liberal amount of distilled water to the filter in the funnel. You will thoroughly rinse the precipitate with the distilled water to wash away any extra impurities.
Again, waiting for the water to pass through the alkaloid coated coffee filter may take awhile, so just have patience.
11: This precipitate can then be placed in front of a fan with a warm air current, away from UV light, and left to dry.
This is now your crude freebase total alkaloid extract. This can be capped when dry and used as is, and should be much cleaner than the simple vinegar extraction. However, for those of us that want it much more pure, there are two options.
First option:
1: Take the filter with the dried crusty precipitate and break up the filtrate to a fine powder. You can use the same filter, or take a new one and place it in a funnel that is plugged (SWIM uses a two liter bottle with the bottom cut off for a funnel, so capping the opening can seal it, but a finger may be used). Add the filtrate to the plugged funnel.
2: Let the vinegar sit, maybe stir it around a bit in the filter, then let it drain through, and save the vinegar.
3: You can repeat with fresh vinegar another time, and collect all the vinegar.
4: Add ammonia to the vinegar again, to precipitate the alkaloids, which should be even cleaner this time.
5: Re-filter out all the alkaloids, and let dry as above.
This can now be used as is and should be even cleaner.
Second (more involved) option:
Okay so you have your brown precipitate in your coffee filter, now dried up, from the first portion of the extraction.
1: You now, take your acetone and add 15 mls of acetone per gram of freebase TA extract (brown crud), and soak the filter with it. You can stir around the precipitate in the filter, and wash two or three times with acetone. The filter should contain any bark crud that got through, and any other impurities.
This will remove the alkaloids from the solid filtrate, since the freebase is soluble in acetone.
2: Take your muriatic acid, and add it very slowly, to the acetone. You must do this dropwise, and watch as the precipitate forms. (one milliliter for each six grams of TA) is added in small portions, slowly, until the precipitation of solid begins.
Adding too much can start to redissolve the ibogaine. You can add a few drops at a time, and watch as the precipitate forms. When it stops forming, you can place this into the fridge, to chill for a few hours, before filtering, and this will increase the yield. You can add more acid a second time to the acetone after filtering the first precipitate to be sure you got it all.
3: Filter out the ibogaine HCl.
This is nearly pure ibogaine HCl, but there may be a bit left in the acetone, and all the other alkaloids will also be in the acetone. You can evaporate some of the acetone with a fan and low heat, then treat it with the muriatic acid again, and harvest any more crystals of ibogaine HCl that precipitate. Filter it out as well and add it to the first filtrate.
4: If you would like pure ibogaine HCl, without the other alkaloids, you can take the ibogaine HCl crystals, and dissolve it in boiling ethanol.
The boiling ethanol should be added dropwise, just until all the ibogaine HCl has dissolved.
5: This ethanol solution is then left to cool in the fridge and the ibogaine will recrystallize.
This will make the ibogaine HCl form much more pure crystals and can remove some of the ibogamine/ibogaline if still present in the precipitate. It is not necessary unless going for 98%+ purity, and repeated recrystallizations can yield very pure ibogaine HCl, but can cost a bit of yield.
When this is dry, it is ready to take.
6: For those who want to recover all the alkaloids, so they can take a complete total alkaloid extract of high purity, they should take the acetone that they salted out the ibogaine HCl, and evaporate it in front of a fan with warm air current.
The resulting leftover alkaloids will be an unstable oil.
7: Dissolve this oil in distilled water.
8: Add ammonia to this water with the oil dissolved into it.
You will again see the freebase residual alkaloids precipitate out of the water/ammonia solution.
9: Filter out the freebase alkaloids, and rinse again thoroughly with distilled water.
10: Let the freebase residual alkaloids dry completely.
You can then add your freebase residual alkaloids to your ibogaine HCl, and capsulize it. Freebases will be converted to the HCl salts in your stomach, so turning them into the HCl salt before ingesting is unnecessary.
So there you have it folks. If you want a very pure extract in which you only need to take a gram or two of extract, versus 7-8 g of brown gunk, then this is how to do it! The purity should help eliminate some of the nausea and should also be absorbed very quickly by the system.