A while ago I harvested phalaris grass and did a simple extraction and got some spectacular crystals. However I did not try them because I had no idea what they were. Furthermore I then moved and the extraction was thrown out.
It got me thinking though, what if what I obtained was ideal? So I chose to try the same method with MHRB to see how it worked and it did.
I have not seen this particular method anywhere, despite elements of it being in widespread use.
I believe it is a good method for grabbing many things, including things like bufotenine and 5meo.
The plant material is obtained and then boiled, I prefer microwaves but for the phalaris I used a stove and pot. Add some acid, vinegar works fine. Basically you make an acid tea from your plant material. You will want to filter coarse material from the tea but fine material is ok.
After you have a good tea type material you reduce it in volume, one can use a microwave or a stove, but be careful because this method essentially requires all of the moisture to be gone, you reduce the tea to a dry residue. However before it gets totally dry you add some calcium hydroxide, though even baking soda works, you want your residue from your acidic tea to be made basic, not exactly caustic though, this isn't to break things down or allow an NP phase transition.
So the tea is reduced and made basic, this works well in the microwave but the last little bit might bump and splatter so once it is nearly done you can either let it dry out on its own or you can use a double boiler method to finish, a good method is to put a round glass bowl on top of a pot with some boiling water in the pot, put the thick residue from the tea in the bowl and let the heat from the boiling water dry it out all the way.
So now you have a funky residue, it is dry and maybe smells strange. Don't crush or break it up into a powder, leave it as it is, however take some 70‰ isopropyl alcohol and cover the residue, at this stage I sometimes heat the alcohol, but not always. I let it sit for some time and the alcohol changes color. Next I remove the alcohol. Now I have broken up the residue in the past, what happens is that some sediment kind of material then becomes suspended in the alcohol, so the solution if you have to deal with this is to put the alcohol somewhere to let it settle, the sediment will settle to the bottom of your container and you can decant the alcohol.
I don't know if all the steps are important, but what I have been doing next is to take the alcohol solution and put it into the freezer overnight. It seems that more stuff settles this way, perhaps plant waxes? Don't know... But I decant the alcohol again, pouring it off of the sediment that has settled in the freezer.
Next I take the alcohol and evaporate it slowly. As it dries out crystals form...
In the case of MHRB you will get an oily residue and crystals, evidently some of the alkaloidal material does not crystallize so well and stays very oily.
The AB and STB approaches don't work too well for some alkaloids, like bufo... But a tincture alone grabs too much, fats and waxes etc. This method here is a lot like an AB, but you do not use NP, you must dry your acid phase to a residue, before using alcohol as a solvent, and my best results used the freezer as mentioned.
In a nutshell what you would need aside from glassware or kitchen stuff is some lime, aka ca hydroxide, some 70% rubbing alcohol, some vinegar and your plant material. A freezer and microwave and all that is very handy too.
I like this method because it works well, uses very easy to obtain materials and it grabs alkaloids that are unlikely to be obtained using the more conventional methods.
I am hesitant to call this a tek, and sure don't want to be known as an author of a tek, but it works well and I don't know of anyone else doing it.
I had also seen crystals of mescaline obtained in a very similar way, but without the addition of acids or bases, just make a tea or juice or blend the cactus finely, filter, reduce to residue, cover with alcohol, chill, decant, evaporate... However this method does seem to grab things like tyramine variants and other such things that do not normally make it into a tea because they tend to not be very soluble in acid solutions. The crystals are also of the natural acids found in the cacti, not HCL or sulfates... They are interesting to see.
Goodluck.
It got me thinking though, what if what I obtained was ideal? So I chose to try the same method with MHRB to see how it worked and it did.
I have not seen this particular method anywhere, despite elements of it being in widespread use.
I believe it is a good method for grabbing many things, including things like bufotenine and 5meo.
The plant material is obtained and then boiled, I prefer microwaves but for the phalaris I used a stove and pot. Add some acid, vinegar works fine. Basically you make an acid tea from your plant material. You will want to filter coarse material from the tea but fine material is ok.
After you have a good tea type material you reduce it in volume, one can use a microwave or a stove, but be careful because this method essentially requires all of the moisture to be gone, you reduce the tea to a dry residue. However before it gets totally dry you add some calcium hydroxide, though even baking soda works, you want your residue from your acidic tea to be made basic, not exactly caustic though, this isn't to break things down or allow an NP phase transition.
So the tea is reduced and made basic, this works well in the microwave but the last little bit might bump and splatter so once it is nearly done you can either let it dry out on its own or you can use a double boiler method to finish, a good method is to put a round glass bowl on top of a pot with some boiling water in the pot, put the thick residue from the tea in the bowl and let the heat from the boiling water dry it out all the way.
So now you have a funky residue, it is dry and maybe smells strange. Don't crush or break it up into a powder, leave it as it is, however take some 70‰ isopropyl alcohol and cover the residue, at this stage I sometimes heat the alcohol, but not always. I let it sit for some time and the alcohol changes color. Next I remove the alcohol. Now I have broken up the residue in the past, what happens is that some sediment kind of material then becomes suspended in the alcohol, so the solution if you have to deal with this is to put the alcohol somewhere to let it settle, the sediment will settle to the bottom of your container and you can decant the alcohol.
I don't know if all the steps are important, but what I have been doing next is to take the alcohol solution and put it into the freezer overnight. It seems that more stuff settles this way, perhaps plant waxes? Don't know... But I decant the alcohol again, pouring it off of the sediment that has settled in the freezer.
Next I take the alcohol and evaporate it slowly. As it dries out crystals form...
In the case of MHRB you will get an oily residue and crystals, evidently some of the alkaloidal material does not crystallize so well and stays very oily.
The AB and STB approaches don't work too well for some alkaloids, like bufo... But a tincture alone grabs too much, fats and waxes etc. This method here is a lot like an AB, but you do not use NP, you must dry your acid phase to a residue, before using alcohol as a solvent, and my best results used the freezer as mentioned.
In a nutshell what you would need aside from glassware or kitchen stuff is some lime, aka ca hydroxide, some 70% rubbing alcohol, some vinegar and your plant material. A freezer and microwave and all that is very handy too.
I like this method because it works well, uses very easy to obtain materials and it grabs alkaloids that are unlikely to be obtained using the more conventional methods.
I am hesitant to call this a tek, and sure don't want to be known as an author of a tek, but it works well and I don't know of anyone else doing it.
I had also seen crystals of mescaline obtained in a very similar way, but without the addition of acids or bases, just make a tea or juice or blend the cactus finely, filter, reduce to residue, cover with alcohol, chill, decant, evaporate... However this method does seem to grab things like tyramine variants and other such things that do not normally make it into a tea because they tend to not be very soluble in acid solutions. The crystals are also of the natural acids found in the cacti, not HCL or sulfates... They are interesting to see.
Goodluck.