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Monday, 12 August 2002 |
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Once you have this stuff as pure as you want it, you can ingest it in your favorite form. You can either swallow it as a lump, put it into a gelatin capsule, drink the ethanol solution, or dissolve it in some cool-aid. I recommend either capsules or swallow the lump if you can handle the taste.
Other notes: Petroleum ether is in Naptha, which is available in hardware stores. That's what I've used, and it works fine. [However, see this warning about Naptha] Other petroleum solvents would work like ethyl ether, which evaporates much more easily and is a better solvent, and something like gasoline, which has additives and does not evaporate as cleanly as naptha. If you can get petroleum ether from a chemical supplier, try it instead of naptha. A rule of thumb is that after making a solution with the nonpolar solvent, and after it dries, it should smell absolutely nothing at all like petroleum, or whatever solvent you used. If you use gasoline, you'll notice a strong gasoline smell, which means you're screwed. I know first hand from repeated experience that naptha works. Also, read the labels of whatever solvent you use. Make sure it contains no benzene. Benzene is the most evil carcinogen known, and even in trace amounts it can cause cancer. There is no safe amount of benzene. On the other hand benzene is everywhere, and if some chemical engineer points out to you that there is benzene in naptha even if it's not on the label keep in mind that there is an enormous amount of benzene in automobile exhaust. You're going to die anyway. If there is no mention of carcinogens or benzene on the label of the naptha, then there isn't enough such that you should not use it.
The finer details of this recipe I can give you another time, but I just wanted to give you some theory and a general idea of what the procedure is. I can give you some things I have from off the net pertaining to this.
Extracting LSA from HBWR
Concerning the extraction and purification of LSA from HBWR, The alkaloids are more polar than e.g. DMT or mescaline, and are probably water soluble to some extent. Thus, while a crude extraction can be performed with methanol, the next stage of purification may not be very good. Thus the general extraction method for alkaloids is quite possibly not applicable here. That is why I want to have a look at exactly what the original method was, although the journal seems obscure to say the least. Another day in the Chem Abs section, I fear.
Re: LSA
Yup. In a nutshell, you mix the HWBR powder in a nonpolar solvent, keep the resultant gunk(I) and throw away the solution. Then dissolve the gunk(I) into a polar solvent, throw away the new gunk(II) and evaporate the solution. The final gunk (III) that comes out of the solution has LSA in it.
| Code: | gunk(I) = gunk(II) + gunk(III)
gunk(III) is the good stuff
gunk(II) is not
gunk(I+III) are therefore kept |
nonpolar solvent = petroleum ether
polar solvent = alcohol (methanol is better, but is a smidgin poisonous, so you've got to be damn sure its all evaporated).
For the layman: nonpolar solvent also = Zippo lighter fluid.
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