you mean like this?Nicita said:Thats probably the bestI'll post some pictures and reports of bioassay. :lol:
you mean like this?Nicita said:Thats probably the bestI'll post some pictures and reports of bioassay. :lol:
obliguhl said:The information that psilocybin is only soluble in boiling water is right?
I just got the idea to soak the cakes in lemon juice to make a strong lemon tek tea.
What would happen if one would evap the lemon juice down? I think this question has been posed before. Perhaps one could alos conservate the psylocin afterwards with alcohol.
Le Genre Panaeolus: Essai taxinomique et physiologique par Gyorgy Miklos OLA'H Laboratoire De Cryptogamie du Museum National D'histoire Naturelle 12, rue de Buffon, Paris. Memoire hors-series No 10, 1970. Page 97.
Dry the mushrooms.
This important step is most likely to cause the greatest loss of yield depending on how it is done. Crush or grind the dried carpophores or mycelium to a powder.
Shake and allow to stand (e.g. 30 mins) in chloroform. Use maybe twice the dry weight in solvents at every step, or enough to well cover the powder.
Filter and discard the chloroform.
Shake the reidue and allow to stand with acetone.
Filter and discard the acetone.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Shake residue and allow to stand with methanol.
Filter.
Discard residue.
Combine methanol extracts.
Evaporate methanol to dryness, preferably in a vacuum, although low heat will do.
This will yield a crude extract containing the active tryptamines, suitable for most purposes. This can be further chromatographed on cellulose etc. to give pure psilocin and psilocybin. The recommended solvents are n-Butanol saturated with water, and n-butanol:acetic acid:water (24:10:10). Anyone wishing to do chromatography should check the relevant texts for more detailed instructions.
..it was active, but clearly not close to pure psilocybin..like a mild mushroom dose, duration approx 40minutes..my friend and i decided we would do the extraction again, and do each stage/wash twice and more carefully..obviously chromatographing would get the purest product..also, we hypothesized that converting it to the freebase should be more active [edit: but I don't know about the zwitteronic aspect]..then we forgot about it and never got around to it..!the original Albert Hoffman psilocybin extraction formula to produce 'crystal' c.1950s
i'm pretty sure it went like this: dry/powder mushrooms, wash with acetone..dry, wash with chloroform..dry, extract with basic methanol and evaporate to almost pure mushroom alkaloids..i have done this once with a friend..the chloroform pulled a ball of waxy stuff that had the 'makes you want to puke' smell..it was decided the cleaning washes weren't complete enough as the final product was a dark oil..it worked vaporized!
alzabo said:obliguhl said:The information that psilocybin is only soluble in boiling water is right?
I just got the idea to soak the cakes in lemon juice to make a strong lemon tek tea.
What would happen if one would evap the lemon juice down? I think this question has been posed before. Perhaps one could alos conservate the psylocin afterwards with alcohol.
A standardized mushroom extract is totally doable. No idea about the finer points of purification but it does concentrate well.
My experience is extracting from dried ground cyans using water with piracetam and ascorbic acid. Brought to a boil and filtered 3x. The liquid evaporated on low heat. Formed a highly active and extremely sour resin. The original plant material was completely inactive.
deoxy said:The elves told me they wanted to pour off the darker pure grain and wash the crystals in some fresh everclear while they are frozen.