Video and easy-to-follow guide for Ayahuasca Analog extraction (beginner friendly)

[hermionegranger]

Hi Friends,

Not sure if this is the ideal place to post this, but here is a detailed and easy-to-follow tutorial video and corresponding document for preparation of Analog Ayahuasca tea and extracts. It's inspired by many of the TEKs on here. It's not necessarily inventing anything new, but aimed at putting many of the best practices in a more accessible and detailed format.

If you find this useful, perhaps it could be recommended to the moderators to include this in the main dmt-nexus list of TEKs, or wherever else seekers are looking for this kind of information

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Love,
Hermione

 

[Thierr7]

Just what i need , Thanks .

 

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Hi @hermionegranger , welcome to the Nexus!

I've been taking a look at the PDF resource and it's quite solid. I think many beginners will find it helpful. I'm happy to see you added many safety notes. The explanations are very clear, too. It's evident that a lot of effort was put into it.

I do have a suggestion for the rue extraction. I see you suggest basifying, and then doing a series of water washes to it day by day until it's at a safe pH. This is fine, but it seems to me quite time consuming to get a very crude extract.
If one is going to use several days for it, I would suggest decanting the sediment from the first basification. Then, add it to water and acidify so it dissolves. Heat it up, and filter it with a coffee filter. This will get rid of many impurities. Then, basify again to decant. Repeat this cycle several times, until you get a light tan or white extract.
To avoid a time-consuming water wash, one can use ammonia as a base instead of sodium carbonate (thanks @Varallo!). Ammonia is a gas and will evaporate, so the end result is guaranteed to not have any base remaining in it without needing to do water washes.

I make these suggestions not as a criticism, but as a suggestion to improve it even more. As it's a high-quality and very self-contained resource that I may send to friends when they ask me about the basics. For the same reason, it would be very nice to add some dosage notes on Mimosa hostilis.

Also, I'm happy to see you didn't include any personal information in your video or channel. Very well done on that!

So, in summary, this is exactly the kind of attitude we appreciate here: learn, share, expand. Thank you for sharing your work, I think you'll fit very well here

 

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If you find this useful, perhaps it could be recommended to the moderators to include this in the main dmt-nexus list of TEKs, or wherever else seekers are looking for this kind of information

About this: you can add it directly to the Resources area, which is the successor to the Wiki (the Wiki is not being updated anymore). Me or another user can add it as well, but if you do it, that gives you the ability to update it yourself if you make any modifications in the future. So feel free to add it there, or else any of us can do it as well.

 

[hermionegranger]

Hi @hermionegranger , welcome to the Nexus!

I've been taking a look at the PDF resource and it's quite solid. I think many beginners will find it helpful. I'm happy to see you added many safety notes. The explanations are very clear, too. It's evident that a lot of effort was put into it.

I do have a suggestion for the rue extraction. I see you suggest basifying, and then doing a series of water washes to it day by day until it's at a safe pH. This is fine, but it seems to me quite time consuming to get a very crude extract.
If one is going to use several days for it, I would suggest decanting the sediment from the first basification. Then, add it to water and acidify so it dissolves. Heat it up, and filter it with a coffee filter. This will get rid of many impurities. Then, basify again to decant. Repeat this cycle several times, until you get a light tan or white extract.
To avoid a time-consuming water wash, one can use ammonia as a base instead of sodium carbonate (thanks @Varallo!). Ammonia is a gas and will evaporate, so the end result is guaranteed to not have any base remaining in it without needing to do water washes.

I make these suggestions not as a criticism, but as a suggestion to improve it even more. As it's a high-quality and very self-contained resource that I may send to friends when they ask me about the basics. For the same reason, it would be very nice to add some dosage notes on Mimosa hostilis.

Also, I'm happy to see you didn't include any personal information in your video or channel. Very well done on that!

So, in summary, this is exactly the kind of attitude we appreciate here: learn, share, expand. Thank you for sharing your work, I think you'll fit very well here

Thanks for the feedback and warm welcome, very helpful! I haven't tried using ammonia before, that's clever.

 

[OtziCoolDude]

Is there anything that can be substituted for d-limonene?

 

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Is there anything that can be substituted for d-limonene?

Naphtha will work as well, although it probably be a less wide spectrum extract, and has a different safety profile. If you're going to use naphtha (or heptane), it's better to follow a different tek meant for those solvents, such as Noman's (it's not that different). You can still do the salting-out step in the end (the part with the vinegar) instead of freezer precipitation or evaporation.