Post #12. I may be a long term chemist, but I developed this many years ago so that anyone can do this at home. I actually went into a trance state after a death and received the information from a divine source on how to do this, as I was stuck at one point for weeks on end with no solution. No fancy chemicals or equipment needed like TIHKAL THH Synthesis. Due to the hundreds of Spiritual centers in South America needing these plants, Caapi is increasingly being harder to find. You can do this with normal coffee filters and cotton ball stuffed in a funnel. Tetrahydroharmine (THH): she is as valuable as mescaline, can't do without her. Diamondlike shimmering in her beauty.
In brews analyzed by the UDV, Santo Daime and Shuar Indian, THH levels were at the same high levels of harmine in the plant. Somehow, over their day's long cooking process perhaps using vitamin C (hydrogen doner) in the cooking, the THH would attain levels found as harmine in the plants. Harmaline levels often found zero but always very low (0 to 30mg levels) in a typical brew. Just google tetrahydroharmine wikipedia and read the studies attached at bottom.
Now once you have your harmaline freebase...
1) place 10.5 grams of harmaline in a 1 liter pyrex cup style glass
2) add 900ml vinegar
3) add 40g zinc dust in the pyrex glass too, use 40g zinc dust per each 10.5 grams of harmaline. You will see tiny hydrogen bubbles rise to the surface.
5) place beaker solution on a magnetic stirrer with stir rod and spin entire solution slowly
6) spin for 1.5 hour, then let solution sit for 1 hour without spinning so the zinc dust can settle to the bottom.
The solution will have turned from a beginning dark green color to a transparent like golden color after it sits 1 hour after the 1.5 hour spin. Use the end of a cotton q tip to place in solution and dab on paper plate in front of blacklight, the smear will now glow light blue when transition is done...
7) Remember, once done with spin, let the solution sit for 1 hour, most (99.5%) of the zinc dust will settle to bottom, then filter solution above the zinc over a #101 9cm filter disc fitted to a vacuum flask with vacuum trap in series with your vacuum pump, this will give you a transparent golden color liquid, use this solution for next step.
Throw away any zinc dust you just collected on filter disc (be careful, don't throw zinc on top aluminum foil in garbage or it will smoke due to hydrogen loaded zinc, best to put used zinc in a baggie with water to keep it moist, keep away from aluminum).
The pump/vacuum filter flask & filter disc will remove 100% of any zinc dust. so in other words, filter pyrex beaker solution (takes out the zinc dust) over a #101 9cm filter disc fitted inside a vacuum filtration flask hooked up to a vacuum pump, with a small vacuum trap in series, in-between the filtration flask and the pump. A good pump is JB platinum DV-142N 5 CFM heavy duty vacuum pump.
Cool you are left with a 100% clear transparent with just a touch of golden very light yellow color with no zinc dust at all...now add (80ml of 10% janitorial ammonium hydroxide per 2g of harmaline)...so this means add 400ml of the 10% ammonium hydroxide to your solution...you will immediately see the thh crash out of solution as a white powder, place mason jar in fridge for at least 3 hours, the crystals will all be seen at bottom of mason jar. I like to let jars sit in fridge overnight then collect the THH at the bottom of the jars early the next morning. As you have already done quite a bit of work the 1st day.
9) you will collect 7.5 grams THH freebase on the filter disc sitting in your vacuum filtration flask once you pour fridge cold solution over a #101 9cm filter disc in your vacuumm pump, rinse THH with some hot or cold water. put filter disc of thh in a pyrex tray, scrape off and dry under fan.
10) always this will happen: exactly 75% is the yield, as I don't know why this is so...but it's a great yield still. Even in TIHKAL, the yield was similar, right at 75% as well.
11) The more zinc you use, the faster the reaction progresses, so 35 to 40g zinc means the reaction is finished by 1.5 hour.
I've looked at the #101 filter after filtration, hardly anything at all on it, truly only less than 1% of the zinc dust remains to be filtered after sitting for 1 hour.
If you don't have a vacuum pump/filtration setup: Personally, I believe the cotton ball in a funnel to be one of the greatest inventions of all time--and think it would work just fine for filtering out the remaining less than 1% zinc dust, remember 99.5% of the zinc dust falls to the bottom already after sitting for 1 hour after the spin mantel is turned off. What you are filtering is actually the less than 1% of zinc dust from the very bottom after sitting that gets kicked up back into the solution as you are decanting it off.
p.s. I also saw an episode of "Ancient Aliens" in which they discovered remnants of zinc dust inside one of the chambers, and they believe the Egyptians were making hydrogen gas using zinc and vinegar, speculating that the great pyramid was some sort of power generating device.
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igorcarajo said:
ava69:
Thanks for the kind words. My zinc reduction went well, I think. It glows bright blue under an ultraviolet light. I haven’t tried it yet, though.
I have experimented a bit with separating harmine from harmaline using your method of slowly basifying with ammonia and constantly monitoring pH, and I haven’t gotten a good handle on it yet. It seems tricky because as soon as stuff precipitates, the pH goes down. I think I added too much ammonia and I’m guessing that a bunch of harmaline precipitated with the harmine.
Also, are you sure that the 10% ammonium hydroxide is basic enough to precipitate all the harmaline? I’m asking because after getting the harmine out, I added a bunch of ammonium hydroxide to precipitate the harmaline, and some did precipitate. At that point the pH was 10.4 if I recall correctly. Then I filtered it and just for kicks I added some NaOH to the liquid and got the pH up to around 12, and some more stuff precipitated, not much but a little.
First of all, congrats on your success! It is normal for the ph to drop down from 7.0 to around 6.7 or so as the solution becomes super saturated with harmine, right after you hit the target ph of 7.0 for harmine. This is completely normal. Always make sure you are using a really good meter like this one:
APERA INSTRUMENTS AI209 Value Series PH20 Waterproof pH Tester Kit, ±0.1 pH Accuracy (5,000 reviews). I've used 2 of these meters for a decade, supreme. Never use cheap made China made ph meters, ever.
Never necessary to ever add naoh at any point, you just add excess ammonium hydroxide (often several millilters), it has a natural ph of 10.0, and all the harmaline will fall out very quickly.
Good job, well done, it takes practice, but practice makes perfect.
Pic: 300mg very pure THH