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Enhancing Powdered Herbs?

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CultiV8

CultiV8

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Hello nexus! Glad I could finally make an account, it's an honor to be here.

I have a few grams of POWDERED Pau D'arco. The author of this thread and a few others say it makes wonderful DMT-enhanced leaf:


I was wondering if this technique will work with my powder. It is very fine. My main concern is that it will trap the solvent, resulting in a goopy mess instead of evaporating off. Has anyone tried this? Will the solvent evaporate no matter what consistency the herb is? Or do you think I'm better off enhancing a full leaf / loose grind herb?

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Welcome!

Pau d'arco is a bark, but the problem with it being a fine powder is as much that difficulties might be likely to arise when attempting to vaporize with it. Evaporation of solvent would be facilitated by frequent stirring of the material, and you might also do this with enhanced (actual) leaf, too.

Maybe mix it with mullein, or just get a coarser grade of pau d'arco as you say. I don't think it'll work so well by itself (but I could be wrong, only experience would definitively tell.)
 
downwardsfromzero said:
Welcome!

Pau d'arco is a bark, but the problem with it being a fine powder is as much that difficulties might be likely to arise when attempting to vaporize with it. Evaporation of solvent would be facilitated by frequent stirring of the material, and you might also do this with enhanced (actual) leaf, too.

Maybe mix it with mullein, or just get a coarser grade of pau d'arco as you say. I don't think it'll work so well by itself (but I could be wrong, only experience would definitively tell.)
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Thanks for the response. It's not easy to smoke bowls of the powder and ounces of the coarser root bark are $1.45 on eBay, no brainer :thumb_up:
 
Lapacho (Pau D'Arco is the portugese name) usually is little strips of bark (like needles), not powder. The smoalk of it is rather harsh and woody (not smooth). We (intezam) cannot smoalk it.. cough cough...

So what we like to do is: soak it in some alcohol for two weeks, then strain it and evap the flavoured alcohol on to some mullein or other herb, in that way it is not harsh at all, yet the full flavour is there. We have also done this 'flavouring' with dual extract combined (lapacho reduced tea + lapacho alcoholic extract - both combined)

The flavour it imparts is difficult to describe, somewhat similar to vanilla but moar flowery and fruity, like peaches(?)

If yours is powder (*why?) you'd need a coffee filter to strain it. You could also try a simple water (tea) extract, and then soak some mullein or other herb in the reduced (strained) concentrate, then press the extra liquid out of the herb and put it on a piece of paper and let it dry on the heater or lamp shade. (...we have not tried this - but in theory it should give you some flavoured herb the same day?)

But since lapacho is rather cheap, you could try to buy some unpowdered inner bark strips, (sold as lapacho tea) and try that (easier to strain)

* is it the real thing?
 
Thanks for the reply, Intezam.

The bark is powdered because I think it is intended to be packaged in tea bags. Although smoking a bowl was very difficult, I did manage, and it had a very woody/harsh taste with subtle effects. I think it is real.

Either way, I have ordered an ounce of the needle-like bark strips for cheap. Your 'flavored alcohol' method sounds very interesting, I will have to try it out when I start enhancing the bark shreds.
 
Yeah, that vanilla-like taste with a good dose of woodiness is characteristic of the lapacho, although not impossible to fake, I suppose (but why, for something already so cheap?)

Good luck with your mission, now I know what to do with that huge pile of lapacho strips sat in the back of my cupboard - so thanks to you both, Intezam and CultiV8!
 
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