San Pedro extraction

[maranello551]

How well would this work?:

1. Freeze and thaw San Pedro chunks

2. Simmer chunks for 5-7 hours on very low temperature in water with the juice of a couple lemons

3. Strain resulting "tea" from chunks and add to remaining juice squeezed from chunks (discard chunks)

4. Reduce resulting liquid for however long is necessary (7-8) hours until about a cup or 2 of liquid is left

5. Add IPA to extract alkaloids from tea

6. Evaporate IPA to leave resin (or crystal)

7. Wash crystal and/or tar with acetone (can you wash tar with acetone?)


Please help my FOAF figure this out.

 

[۩]

Dont use lemon juice.

House's cacti preparation tek - DMT-Nexus Wiki

wiki.dmt-nexus.me

 

[medicine man]

IPA is miscible with water so when you add it you wont get two liquids that separate just one liquid to evaporate so probly not much point in adding it.

 

[maranello551]

Could swim use acetone to wash the resin? Would that improve anything?

 

[Entheogenerator]

IIRC, some of mescaline's salts are insoluble in IPA. I would just stick with water as the solvent, as House does in the tek which he linked, rather than IPA.

 

[maranello551]

Would an acetone wash after the water extraction help?

Any real advantages of STB over House's tek?

 

[Entheogenerator]

Would an acetone wash after the water extraction help?

Any real advantages of STB over House's tek?

An acetone wash may help, if you are looking for a higher percentage of mescaline per weight of your extract. Acetone may remove some of the other alkaloids.

The only advantage of an STB would be purified mescaline versus full-spectrum alkaloids. But this is more of a personal preference than an advantage. It depends on what one is seeking from the extraction. If you want are seeking the full-spectrum San Pedro alkaloid experience, then go with House's tek. If you seek a pure mescaline experience, without the potential influence of other alkaloids, then go with a STB tek.

 

[HumbleTraveler]

Entheogenerator, could you elaborate a little more on pure mescaline vs mixed alkaloid experience?

 

[maranello551]

That ^

From what I hear, the full alkaloid experience is more sedated and dreamy. I guess it would be like smoking some pot on top of pure mescaline?

 

[Entheogenerator]

My experience with full-spectum extracts is very limited. From the experience reports and other posts I have read, it seems that the full-spectrum extract experience varies a bit depending on the species of cactus used. I have heard reports that "sedated and dreamy" would be an accurate way to describe the experiences produced by most of the mescaline-containing species, but other subtle differences may also be apparent.

I have heard speculation that the other (non-mescaline) alkaloids present in Trichocereus bridgesii may potentiate the mescaline, but this has not been confirmed to my knowledge.

 

[Anodyne]

Not sure about other alkaloids, but some cacti contain significant amounts of pellotine, which was used as a pre-benzodiazepine sedative. So a full-spectrum extract may be more sedating than pure mescaline, depending on the type of cactus used - from memory L. williamsii had quite alot of pellotine.