endlessness said:
thanks for the clarification!
sorry if this is specified in your tek but I couldnt exactly find it, but how concentrated do you make your tincture (or if you tested already, whats the solubility of dmt and of harmalas in vinegar?) ? How many ml will fit in a gelcap ?
I am interested in this because for pharma, I first used to just dissolve everything in juice, but the taste is horrible (and I also have some nausea.. but its not the end of the world, and with some psychedelics its a natural part of it). Then I started putting dmt fumarate and harmala hcl in capsules. It works fine, no taste no nausea, but is a bit weaker, even cutting the capsule end open. So I thought maybe a tincture in the capsule might make the absorption easier while still preventing taste/nausea
It's near the tail end of the tek, the instructions refer to "the vinegar" as the vinegar that has been used to salt the full-range DMT out of d-limonene/xylene/toluene.
The methods are simple and quite in-efficient but made for a simple kitchen
Evaporation:
This step is just to concentrate the alkaloids down to a dense and more-workable product, the product can either be concentrated to a few milliliters, or evaporated fully and redissolved in a minimal amount of vinegar
-Any method that heats the product and doesn't go over 100C will work fine, food dehydrator, crock pot, simple double boiler, rice cooker works very well.
-SWIM mostly uses a baking pan suspended over a boiling pot of water, a simple double boiler, which works well but just be careful the water underneath doesn't dry up.
-When evaporating the vinegar it will get redder and redder and when the water is almost gone it will start to get thicker. You can stop it when it starts getting a little thick or fully evaporate it. Either way just make sure it doesn't get heated over 100C then remove from the heat.
NOTE: pouring tiny amounts of liquid doesn't work very well, using droppers/basters is the best way to transport them
-If you evaporated it down just to a liquid, your tincture is ready to go. (unless you need to concentrate it more)
Just mix it around and make sure most of the goo in the pan has been dissolved. Add minimal amounts of water to dissolve if it isn't a clear solution.
-If it was fully evaporated the goo should be re-dissolved in a MINIMAL amount of vinegar.
The product requires some mixing around but easily dissolves in the vinegar.
The tincture can vary largely depending on your technique, it can be anywhere from 1-8mg per drop (20mg to 175mg per ml), 4-7 per drop is common after this step. The maximum concentration so that it is still a thin water-like liquid is about 8-9mg per drop.
The more concentrated the tincture, the quicker it is to prepare for smoking, but precision goes down.
IE: if a tincture is 8mg per drop then one can't make a 20mg dose, only 16mg or 24mg while 5mg per drop can make 15mg, 20mg or 25mg. But 3 drops will evaporate faster than 5. SWIM's tinctures are 4-5mg per drop and work very well for speedy evaporation and accurate dosing.
Measuring the tincture:
Before using the tincture it is recommended to establish either a quantitative or qualitative measurement of the concentration.
Quantitative Concentration (numerical):
Evaporate 5-10 drops on a FLAT surface and when fully evaporated scrape up and measure the product using a precise scale.
Repeat 2-3 times for an average concentration and divide by the number of drops for the numerical concentration per drop
Qualitative Concentration (subjective):
This method is much more advised for smoking and not recommended for pharmahuasca/mucosahuasca
Use the method below to evaporate 2 drops of the tincture and test the effects of the product when used.
If the effects are not as strong as desired then try 3 drops, then 4, 5, Etc. until adequate effects are achieved.
Concetration will then be
* drops = Mild
* drops = Strong
* drops = Breakthrough
* drops = ????
If the tincture is not at a satisfactory concentration then you can concentrate it down some more.
This step is often not needed, after the first few tries the tincture is at a high concentration after the first concentration, so much so that after measuring he will often dilute it slightly because he likes his tincture 4-5 per drop (96-120mg per ml)
Caution: Color is NOT an accurate guide to concentration since different MHRB and different pulls have more or less of each type of DMT.
Left = Tincture with 70mg per ml~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Right= Tincture with 77mg per ml
-Your new Jimjam-acetate tincture can be sealed either in a herbal tincture bottle or in any small container and measured with a dropper (by drop) to be used for pharmahausca, mucosahuasca or freebased for smoking.
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For harmalas they can simply be dissolved in vinegar. Harmine seems to have a max solubility of about 50mg per ml before precipitation starts while harmaline can be concentrated at nearly 100mg per ml.
