anybody ever used it as an ayahuasca analog or extracted it? Seems to be loads around SWIM, he was wondering if it was of any interest
69ron said:The XlogP of gramine is 1.8. The XlogP of DMT is 2.0. So you should be able to separate them with the right solvent. You’d want to use the most non-polar solvent possible that DMT is barely soluble in at room temperature but highly soluble when melted. Something like n-heptane might work, but a more non-polar solvent would be a better candidate.
Another option is column chromatography on silica using MEK as the solvent. DMT should elute first, followed by gramine.
Gramine has a melting point of 138-139 C which is much higher than the boiling point of DMT (60-80 C). So it’s possible to distill the DMT to separate it from the gramine. Distilling alkaloids is not that simple though, if not done right it will all vaporize away or just burn.
endlessness said:I think think this plant might be a dead end, though id love to be proven wrong. Since this thread was made years back I researched more and found out the amount of DMT was minimal (like youd have to extract a kg rhizomes for a single dose), and that was only in plants in india, because Arundo in other places like USA it was not found to have DMT. Also the alk profile was not clean, so youd have to clean it up, and need to analyse to confirm. You can find more references to what I just mentioned in Trouts Notes.