Mescaline extraction from San Pedro/peyote?

hell yeah.

mesc is such a special thing; and since it's not the most economical (profit-wise) drug out there, it is untainted by black market, making any decent return from a plant extraction that much more satisfying.

 

Check out this mescaline extraction video I found on Google. Some moron does a simple extraction, similar to one I've seen before but uses plastics with the xylene solvent. Idiot.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2164471661630252647&q=Mescaline+Extraction

 

what a jerk; he should be shot in the face. gotta use glass when dealing with aromatic solvents or ketones

and he's got a bubbly squarepusher track for the score. could've at least used some venetian snares tracks, or maybe gwar

 

If I was to use a turkey baster as a substitution for a separatory funnel, is there a better way of syphoning or draining that could be utilized like a makeshift separatory funnel/device?

I was thinking a glass container with a hole drilled in the bottom, but I'd need to get a non-plastic/rubber stopper for a specific sized hole. Or possibly some chemical resistant tubing, but I was trying to avoid that.

I guess I could find either somewhere, but I didn't know if there was an easier solution.

 

I think the absolute most makeshift option would be to allow the layers to separate in a large freezer bag, then cut off a bottom corner or poke a hole in the bottom to just drain it out. You will obviously lose a small amount of the good stuff, either leaving some in the bag, or draining a bit out. That all depends on the solvent you use and whether it floats or sinks. IDK, a sep funnel is still the best bet.

 

two of the best pieces of advice you'll ever get for the A/B extraction:

1) buy a pH meter, you'll be glad you did. Hanna makes a pocket model that's perfect for this, it's 88 dollars, you can probably find one cheaper; just don't be stupid like me, and try to take the pH of the xylene, it makes the plastic housing degrade (still works tho)

2) after collecting the xylene from the basic aqueous wash, and you add your acidic water through it, take the pH of that water. if it's low, like pH 2 or 3, add ammonia until the pH is around 7. the liquid will appear slightly cloudy (that's because all the good stuff is in hcl form, in solution, and the solution is ready to evaporate), run that liquid through the xylene layer a few times, it'll get progressively cloudier. repeat this with every acidic water addition.

david ShWIMmer has needles, but still needs to let them dry, before recrystallizing. pics to follow soon.

 

representative sample (6 drops from 100 ml solution, 26 drops per ml):

 

gotta wash it some more..

(from 338g t. panachoi powder)

 

*edit* final mass: 1.54 g. hcl salts (.454% of the dry powder mass)

 

another helpful tip: flipping through an old organic lab book, i rediscovered that when a final product has "oiled out" leaving a sticky mess with the crystals, it is essentially just a supersaturated precipitate, which just needs to be diluted with more solvent... in this case, distilled water, ethanol, and then acetone; then let evaporate, and scrape.

 

Wow, blending the fresh plant matter and the initial aqueous extraction takes a hell of a long time when you're working with alot of starting material.


I found a blender to be almost completely useless in the first step. I think a food processor is a necessity.

 

yeah, a food processor works quite well.

the powder extraction seems to be the most convenient route, though it soaks up water to look like mush anyway. it's just somewhat cleaner/easier to handle.

whichever route you choose, make sure you do multiple extractions in each phase, or yield will be thin.

 

So I was curious, with the de-fatting of solution.....I didn't do the best job with the de-fatting by using a turkey baster, but

I lost somewhere between 1/4 to 1/3 of the volume of the entire aqueous solution during the de-fatting process. I know that some volume is going to be lost due to the use of a turkey baster and the fact that some plant fats are coming out, but is this normal?

I was concerned that I extracted too much of the aqueous solution with the solvent and plant fat layers. I saved the siphoned layers in another container to let separate just in case there's some aqueous solution on the bottom.

 

you can actually skip the defatting process, but it will be messy. as long as you let it sit for a while, the soapy center layer will settle, if you don't shake it too much and get emulsions. add basic water straight to the acidic water, add xylene, and swirl it. allow it to sit for a few hours, take off the xylene, and run fresh xylene through again... about 3 portions of fresh xylene, which you should reflush 3 times more, through the basic aqueous solution. and yeah...try to keep the final aqueous acidic washes free of xylene and fats, to give you a relatively clean product.. use gravity filtration with a coffee filter, if necessary.

if you get lots of foamy mess while defatting or otherwise, put the jar against something that vibrates to help break up the emulsions.

 

so the friend who brought me the san pedro powder, to which I ended up with the two sample vials of 770mg mesc HCl each (plus other phenethylamines) depicted on the previous page, reported on his new year's experience. He divied up the crystalline powder into 3 250mg capsules (there was some left over), and took all three within 3 hours of the first dose (he wishes he took it all at once, for a very strong trip)

He "felt great..closed eye visuals with flowing mosaic patterns, body felt light, no nausea. Lights were enhanced, so were shadows. Overall, it was a clean 10 hour trip." He said it was pretty much identical to his previous tea experiences.

 

What about blending fresh san pedro up in a blender, then drinching out the liquid with a thin shirt, or cloth? I'm sure from here it would be much simpler then just blending it and doing it with all of thatr plant matter still present. What should i do in the case of draining the fluid, how would i go about getting as pure a form as i can??

 

yeah, that's what I did, with the powder (because it sucked up lots of water, and became a pulpy mess). used an old short-sleeved button-down. worked really well, I still have my vial, as reference (though I'm itching to try it all)

 

just took half of one of those vials... 370mg.

trip report to follow...

 

How crucial is the slow, room-temp evaporation? If in a non-stovetop-friendly dish (pyrex), would a double boiler type setup be ok? Failing that, a hairdryer or somesuch DIY?

 

use a fan to blow over it. it's not that crucial, you can put it in the oven on about 225.