Subject: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis
From: staun@nym.lycaeum.org
Date: August 27, 1997 at 16:27:58
In Reply to: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis posted by august@nym.lycaeum.org on August 27, 1997 at 16:02:44:
> Most people were under the... > impression that the extreme pH would destroy the alkaloids, but this does > not seem to be the case, as my informant demostrated. welllll, actually it's not a question of whether alkaloids were destroyed or not, nothing is perfect-including extractions. my personal though experiments turn toward comparing yields between medium high and extremely high ph values during the final non-polar extraction... keeping other variables constant. also, does the initial acid extraction ph have to be as low as "1" to pull the alkaloids from the bark material given a week's time?