Link to the story Thats a lot of mushies... Theres another story at this LINK [4th story down] about 40 year old Psilocybin tablets and the bottle says Sandoz...I didn't know they also made these. Anyone else know that tablets used to be around?
Yeah I have a book (don't remember what it is right now) but it talks about Psilocybin tablets and how they gave some to the indians in mexico. The idians had previously given the mushrooms to the scientists so that they could isolate the active components. The indians said the trip was almost the same.
When I was doing research on cultivation of psilocybin a few years ago before my first grow, i came across a website that gave step by step instructions on growing large quantities and doing and extraction.
http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Shrooms/shroom1.html... Crumble and pulverize the dried mycelial material and combine each 100 mg of this material with 10 ml of methanol. Place the flask in a hot water bath for four hours. Filter the liquids with suction through a filter paper in a buchner funnel with Celite to prevent clogging. Collect and save the filtrate liquids. Heat the slurry (the mush in the filter paper) two more times in methanol as before, filter, and accumulate the liquids of the three extractions. To be certain that all of the alkaloids have been extracted do a small extraction with a portion of the used slurry and test with Keller's reagent (glacial acetic acid, ferrous chloride, and concentrated sulfuric acid). If there is a violet indication, alkaloids are still present and further extraction is in order. In an open beaker evaporate the liquids to total dryness with a hot water bath or by applying a hair dryer. Be certain that all traces of methanol have been removed. The remaining residue should contain 25-50 percent psilocybin/psilocin mixture. Greater purification can be achieved, but would require other solvents and chromatography equipment and is hardly necessary. Each 100 grams of dried mycelium should yield about 2 grams of extracted material. This should contain at least 500 mg of psilocybin/psilocin mixed or about fifty 10 mg doses. Theoretically psilocin should have the same effect upon the user as psilocybin. The only difference between the two is that the later has a phosphate bond which disappears immediately after assimilation in the body. In other words, in the body psilocybin turns into psilocin. Psilocybin is a fairly stable compound, but psilocin is very susceptible to oxidization. It is best to keep the extracted material in a dry air tight container under refrigeration. A sack of silica-gel can be placed in the container to capture any moisture that may enter.
