Observant said:
I like glowing solutions and dosing with a dropper ...
Has anyone tried to make a vial of pharmahuasca tincture ?
Would you mind sharing your recipe ?
Does this have a downside ?
Will the alkaloids breakdown faster when in ethanolic solution ?
SWIM's friend has done this. His friend used a store bought harmaline tincture and added DMT to it. The tincture was water based and preserved with acetic acid and not alcohol. Alcohol would degrade harmaline, so it's not a good idea to use it for making a pharmahuasca tincture. According to his friend, this worked very well.
If you don’t use alcohol, you’ll need to add something to it to preserve it. There are many things that will preserve it. The last thing you want is your tincture spoiling. People use alcohol because it’s a great preservative and easy to get. If you use something other than alcohol, make sure you research the proper amount to use. For example, sugar can preserve it, but the amount needed is a certain percentage, I forget the amount.
I like tinctures myself. I have several tinctures I purchased. I don’t like pills. They never work well for me. I prefer everything dissolved in tea, juice, or coffee. I’ve found nearly all things work better that way.
As for the taste, there are many ways to hide the taste. For example, coffee very effectively hides the taste of a small dose of mescaline (up to 100 mg). Also spices like cinnamon, kola nut, etc., are great for hiding such tastes.
As far as I see it, there’s really no downside to using tinctures unless you like taking capsules because of the flavor issue some people have with tinctures. Tinctures are nearly always more effective, more convenient, and doses can be more accurately measured. For example, a capsule that’s 500 mg, is 500 mg. A tincture where 1 dropper is 500 mg can be divided into small drop doses each containing far less. You can take 1/2 of a dropper for a 250 mg dose. With a capsule, dosage adjustments like that are impossible without opening the capsule and re capping it.