Subject: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis
From: alkaloid@nym.lycaeum.org
Date: August 27, 1997 at 18:24:44
In Reply to: Re: Extraction of DMT from Mimosa Hostilis posted by august@nym.lycaeum.org on August 27, 1997 at 16:02:44:
> Let me see... that would be probably beyond the scope of most kitchen > chemists, maybe not if you could clarify the procedure of producing and > bubbling the hcl gas. I think this can be accomplished with H2SO4 (car battery electrolyte) and NaCl. Would require a flask, stopper and glass tubing. The salt is placed in the flask and the acid is added to this. HCL is generated and travels through the tubing down into your non-polar/DMT solution. This isn't too difficult for kitchen chemistry but one would need to work out how much acid/salt to use and of course breathing HCl can't be good for you. :) > Another thought is wouldn't that result in the DMT hcl, instead > of vaporizable freebase DMT? Yes, you would get the hydrochloride. I don't know what the melting point of this is but for the picrate it's 169.5 - 170 C so vaporizing would probably be out of the question. The hydrochloride also pulls moisture out of the air. Injection or ingestion with MAOI would work though. I was just pointing out a way to avoid the buildup of non-polar vapors. Making the hydrochloride is safer in some ways (you will get HCl so this isn't completely safe) but smoking the product is another matter. > In response to the difficulties, I believe it was the emulsion layer that > was giving most of the previous problems with the M.h. extraction. The > alkaloids seemed to be locked up in that gel emulsion. I think an emulsion can be broken by adding detergent or possibly making the solution more ionic by adding salt but I'm not completely sure about this.