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Extracting DMT from Acacia maidenii |
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Written by (anonymous)
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Monday, 12 August 2002 |
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I intend to experiment further with this plant.
I am planning to attempt to side-step the methanol extraction, simply by attempting to extract directly into hydrochloric acid. Freezing and thawing the bark might serve to burst the vesicles containing the alkaloids (if this is the case - I am not a biologist). The advantage of doing this would be decreased cost, easy availability of all raw materials, and decreased time involved. The disadvantage would most likely be a reduction in yield, but larger amounts could be processed. The acid extract would have to be boiled down from several litres to a few hundred mills, then filtered, and this process could destroy the alkaloid. Comments on this method would be welcomed. My references tell me that N-methyl tryptamine is most likely inactive at these doses.
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