Subject: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis
From: august@nym.lycaeum.org
Date: August 27, 1997 at 17:35:52
In Reply to: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis posted by staun@nym.lycaeum.org on August 27, 1997 at 16:27:58:
> > 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? Don't know for sure... my understanding is that previous attempts at pH of around 3 did not yield as much. peace, august