Psychedelic cacti for the most part contain active alkaloids within their cells which are active upon ingestion. The “difficulty” of the situation lies in destroying those cells effectively enough so that these active alkaloids maybe harvested for our use.
Plant cell walls are made of cellulose, which is a type of plant sugar that is not digestible by humans, but can be destroyed by our stomach acid to enough effect that the cells rupture and we will absorb the desired alkaloids.
So eating the cactus is one option…a very bitter but traditional option
Making tea from cactus is another option, but this involves cutting, skinning/chopping hours of boiling, reducing, reconstituting, boiling, boiling, boiling. And you have to watch over it to make sure it doesn’t burn, and making sure you house doesn’t catch on fire; Also very traditional.
A/B extraction involves the use of dangerous solvents, lye, and some degree of knowledge of chemistry. (Which I really don’t like myself)
Many people will say: why not drink cactus juice (throw it in a juicer): this is possible but you will only be mechanically separating globs of cells, you want to rupture each cell individually and a juicer does not work on such a microscopic scale. Most of your active will go in the garbage with all the fibrous material.
So what is your other option? Well you can use peyote’s secret sauce tek!
What you need:
1 - Aluminum baking tray…without the perforations on the bottom
1 - How much ever cactus you want to consume (I prefer the use of bridgesii)
1 – Vacuum (any ol vacuum will do it)
1 - A Tupperware container large enough to hold you cactus with a cover you can cut a hole in to and seal the vacuum nozzle to.
1 – Large canning car or pitcher
1 – freezer/refrigerator
1 – Needle-nose pliers
Procedure:
1)Cryogenic Cytolysis or Freezing the cactus so that cytoplasm expands and ruptures the cell wall
2)Cut your cactus so that they can be stacked neatly inside of the aluminum tray
Stack them into your aluminum baking tray and place them on a level surface in your freezer
Allowing them to freeze as slow as possible allows for the largest water crystals to form ensuring cell lysis.
3)Let them freeze through (you will not notice any real difference in their structure
4)After 3 days, remove them and place them into your refrigerator for a day or 2 until they are thawed but cold. You will notice that they are floppy gelatinous chunks of cactus now, and they are sitting in a pool of golden, thicker than water syrup.
(That golden syrup is actually the cytoplasm that expanded and ruptured the cell wall, and then drained out)
5)
5a)At this point you can simply pour off the golden liquid, and put it back in the freezer and repeat the process.
OR
5b)You can put it in a Tupperware container, attach a vacuum (at the top of the container to make a make-shift vacuum chamber to exert negative pressure on your cactus cell walls draining them further.
PIC:
6)Now place the frozen cactus back in the freezer, and repeat this process by allowing it to freeze completely, and then thawing it, more cells will rupture deeper inside the cactus that weren’t allowed to rupture in your first pull.
3-4 pulls you will have a pile of gooey cactus flesh and plenty of cactus syrup it should be a clear yellow/gold color and be terribly bitter. You can chug this, or do an A/B extraction on it.
You will notice that you first pull is the most bitter!
PS:
What i want from you:
peer review please... my chemistry skills are a little lacking, so you guys that are good with A/B extraction ... do one! (can always save the plant matter if you find your yield to be too low) essentially you lose nothing except finding out if my method is as great as i say it is.
- peyote
Plant cell walls are made of cellulose, which is a type of plant sugar that is not digestible by humans, but can be destroyed by our stomach acid to enough effect that the cells rupture and we will absorb the desired alkaloids.
So eating the cactus is one option…a very bitter but traditional option
Making tea from cactus is another option, but this involves cutting, skinning/chopping hours of boiling, reducing, reconstituting, boiling, boiling, boiling. And you have to watch over it to make sure it doesn’t burn, and making sure you house doesn’t catch on fire; Also very traditional.
A/B extraction involves the use of dangerous solvents, lye, and some degree of knowledge of chemistry. (Which I really don’t like myself)
Many people will say: why not drink cactus juice (throw it in a juicer): this is possible but you will only be mechanically separating globs of cells, you want to rupture each cell individually and a juicer does not work on such a microscopic scale. Most of your active will go in the garbage with all the fibrous material.
So what is your other option? Well you can use peyote’s secret sauce tek!
What you need:
1 - Aluminum baking tray…without the perforations on the bottom
1 - How much ever cactus you want to consume (I prefer the use of bridgesii)
1 – Vacuum (any ol vacuum will do it)
1 - A Tupperware container large enough to hold you cactus with a cover you can cut a hole in to and seal the vacuum nozzle to.
1 – Large canning car or pitcher
1 – freezer/refrigerator
1 – Needle-nose pliers
Procedure:
1)Cryogenic Cytolysis or Freezing the cactus so that cytoplasm expands and ruptures the cell wall
2)Cut your cactus so that they can be stacked neatly inside of the aluminum tray
Stack them into your aluminum baking tray and place them on a level surface in your freezer
Allowing them to freeze as slow as possible allows for the largest water crystals to form ensuring cell lysis.
3)Let them freeze through (you will not notice any real difference in their structure
4)After 3 days, remove them and place them into your refrigerator for a day or 2 until they are thawed but cold. You will notice that they are floppy gelatinous chunks of cactus now, and they are sitting in a pool of golden, thicker than water syrup.
(That golden syrup is actually the cytoplasm that expanded and ruptured the cell wall, and then drained out)
5)
5a)At this point you can simply pour off the golden liquid, and put it back in the freezer and repeat the process.
OR
5b)You can put it in a Tupperware container, attach a vacuum (at the top of the container to make a make-shift vacuum chamber to exert negative pressure on your cactus cell walls draining them further.
PIC:
6)Now place the frozen cactus back in the freezer, and repeat this process by allowing it to freeze completely, and then thawing it, more cells will rupture deeper inside the cactus that weren’t allowed to rupture in your first pull.
3-4 pulls you will have a pile of gooey cactus flesh and plenty of cactus syrup it should be a clear yellow/gold color and be terribly bitter. You can chug this, or do an A/B extraction on it.
You will notice that you first pull is the most bitter!
PS:
What i want from you:
peer review please... my chemistry skills are a little lacking, so you guys that are good with A/B extraction ... do one! (can always save the plant matter if you find your yield to be too low) essentially you lose nothing except finding out if my method is as great as i say it is.
- peyote
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