Dude you DO NOT have to extract the DXM from cough syrup if what your looking for is "pure DXM." They sell these little gel-caps in the Cough/Cold section of your pharmacy or grocery store called Robotussin 8hour gelcap or something like that, basically each gelcap has 15mgs DXM with no other ingredients. Here read this: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm.shtml and look at the main picture it shows the bottle of what im talking about, plus erowid has tons of info on DXM...