Hi.  I've lurked here quite a bit and have found this all very fascinating and interesting.  I dabbled around with different psychedelics back long ago and have done quite a bit of research without stepping my toe in the water, which I think I'm finally ready to do.  I've also recently become quite interested in tinctures and have bought various tinctures and made my own with both psychoactive and medicinal plants.  I'm interested in what the community thinks about achieving the same results through B. Caapi tincture in combination with an Ad Mix tincture.  From what I know and understand, high-proof alcohol is fairly efficient in drawing out all the plant constituents.  There are B. Caapi tinctures ready made and on the market so I'm assuming that has proven to be an effective method and was wondering if I, say, pulverized Chacruna leaves into a powder and started a tincture would it be able to extract the DMT as effectively as decoction.  It seems to me that both sort of wind up achieving the same goal, one you can do in a day and the other takes two weeks.  I completely respect the traditional method but I was wondering if there was a slightly less rigorous.  I am okay with having a less intense experience and am just doing this to hopefully gain more insight into myself.  Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.

- Dan