TEK Speedy No-Filter Harmalas Tek (draft)

[Orion]

I'm going to re-word this.

Having done this No-Filter TEK successfully with WHOLE seeds which were then simply discarded.
If I instead saved the wet cooked seeds and ground them up for a further extraction, what else would be extracted other than Harmine and Harmaline?
Good stuff or bad stuff?

Nothing as far as I know. Not grinding seeds is just to speed up the extraction and avoid extra sediment.

On another note I have a question about the separation using the PH depressions. Is it better to start with freebase, add vinegar to dissolve it and then add base? I ask because it makes more sense to me to begin with the big pile of HCl salts that I already have, with no acids added and then add the base. Is that not preferable for some reason? Could a tiny excess of salt be that much worse than some excess base and quite a lot of vinegar?

 

[Nydex]

For those of us that happen to have made the mistake of getting crushed up seeds, we can skip the whole freeze-thaw step of the tek and go straight to boiling I assume, right? And be extra careful on the decanting phase too?

 

[TransistorBass]

I think this may turn the 'no-filter TEK' into a 'Filter-TEK' meaning you'd need to strain the crushed seeds through a muslin cloth, bif of T-shirt or fine nylon net curtain.
Someone else with more knowledge can tell us if this means we extract more than harmine and Harmaline from the crushed seeds, though Orion above says not.

 

[Sakkadelic]

For those of us that happen to have made the mistake of getting crushed up seeds, we can skip the whole freeze-thaw step of the tek and go straight to boiling I assume, right? And be extra careful on the decanting phase too?

Yes, once you have the tea you can pass it through a cotton cloth, then let it stand for a day and decant slowly, once you see sediments approaching stop and put the rest through a coffee filter or a cotton ball in a funnel.

More fine filtering can be done after you've done the basification step, water washes, and reacidification.

If your seeds are finely powdered and you've got time, you can even skip boiling and try the CWE approach.