Category:Extraction Tek

An Extraction Tek is a manual to extract certain chemicals from a given source.

RebBaron's Yopo Extraction

[this was lifted (with further modifications) from a posting by Entropymancer on Bluelight.ru]

Ingredients/Reagents -

Acetone: available at most hardware stores. This solvent is actually present in the human body in small amounts. It’s best to use distilled acetone that you distilled yourself if you’re at all worried about contaminants. KleanStrip acetone is pure acetone and 100.0 % volatile according to their MSDS, so there will be no residue left behind after evaporating it. SWIM uses this brand, always distills it, and never finds any left over residue. It seems to be very clean.

Pickling Lime (calcium Hydroxide): available at some grocery stores or aquarium stores (e.g. Reef Kalkwasser). It’s used to make pickles crispier. It’s not as poisonous or dangerous as the sodium hydroxide commonly used to extract DMT. Pickling lime is edible but only if greatly diluted.

Citric acid: available as “sour salt” in some grocery stores or homebrew stores. It’s often used in canning. It’s available from many health food or vitamin shops. This is found naturally in fruit.

Filtering system: coffee filters aren’t that good but will work. For best filtering results it’s better to use a lab filtering system (glass micro-fiber filters, a vacuum pump, and a filtering flask, Buchner funnel, etc.)

== Extraction steps - ==

1) Prepare citric acid solution by adding 1 gram of citric acid to 10 ml of acetone. We’ll use it later so put this aside, go onto step 2, but mix the citric acid solution occasionally. It will eventually all dissolve after about an hour or so. It's important to use dry acetone; acetone from the hardware store often has a small amount of water in the solution. It can be removed by pouring the acetone over rock salt and swirling for a few minutes; the water is all pulled into the salt. Don't use ordinary tablesalt, as it contains an anticaking agent that you probably don't want to end up smoking.

2) Mix 100 grams of crushed Anadenanthera seeds (either peregrina or colubrina works) with and equal volume of pickling lime (calcium hydroxide) and add enough water to form a paste. Let it sit for about 1 hour, mixing it a few times. Dry it completely in an oven at 65.5 C / 150 F.

3) Break apart the dried materal. Add 500 ml of acetone. Mix for about 5 minutes. Let the dry material settle to the bottom. The acetone should be reddish amber in color. Pour the acetone through a good quality filter.

4) Add 10 ml of citric acid solution (from step 1) to the filtered acetone and mix. Tiny crystals will form which look like yellow dust. Let the crystals settle to the bottom. Poor off the acetone, being careful not to pour off the crystals. Discard the acetone. Wash the crystals by adding 100 ml of fresh acetone, mix, let the crystals settle, and then carefully pour off the acetone and discard it (you might want to let the acetone evaporate down to about 50 ml before discarding, as more precipitates might form. Keep in mind that a small amount of the alkaloids won’t precipitate out of the acetone. A small portion of this contains the tiny amount of DMT present in the seeds. If you save the acetone, you could extract the last bit of alkaloids using an A/B extraction, but it’s not really worth the trouble). Let all the acetone evaporate off the crystals. They’ll start absorbing water from the air and become dark brown goo once all the acetone has evaporated.

5) Mix the crystal goo with an equal volume of pickling lime / calcium hydroxide. Add enough water to form a thin watery paste. Let it sit for about 1 hour while mixing a few times. Dry in an oven at 65.5 C / 150 F.

6) Break apart the dried material. Dissolve in 100 ml acetone for about 5 minutes, mixing a few times. Filter off the pickling time. Evaporate the acetone leaving behind 5-HO-DMT freebase as a single solid mass of amber micro-crystals (and a few other active freebase alkaloids). It looks like amber candy, not crystals. It’s very difficult to form large crystals, so don’t bother. Just scrape it up and store in an air tight container away from light.

You can repeat steps 3-6 with the same seed mix up to 4 more times to recover nearly all the alkaloids if you like, but since the seeds are so cheap, it’s probably not worth the effort.

The resulting product is active at 5-15 mg vaporized and is mostly 5-HO-DMT freebase. The effects are unique without all the side effects of Yopo/Vilca snuff.

The onset after inhaling a large dose is about 3-5 minutes, peaking after 10-15 minutes, lasting a total of 1-2 hours. At 10 mg, there are both visual and auditory hallucinations. The auditory hallucinations are quite fascinating and unique to this alkaloid mix. It's got the visuals but almost none of the "mind-fuck" of most other psychedelics. It's not nearly as alien feeling as DMT. It's a more relaxed visionary experience. It's often said to be much more friendly than DMT.

What’s nice about this extraction is that it’s final product is more potent than DMT, cheaper, uses less toxic ingredients, doesn’t require a separatory funnel, and it can’t have those nasty problems with emulsions because it’s not a liquid/liquid extraction like most DMT extraction techs. It based on precipitating the desired alkaloids with is less trouble and less labor intensive than liquid/liquid extractions.

Don’t smoke this extract like its DMT. When smoking this extract, it's best to take several smaller inhalations spread out rather that one big inhalation. It’s more pleasant that way.

When smoked, the effects take a few minutes to come on and peak after 10-15 minutes. So as long as you smoke the entire dose before the peak hits, very little tolerance is developed.

If you smoke a 15 mg dose all at once as if smoking DMT, it is going to hit you REALLY HARD, and the first minute of the trip is going to be unpleasant with some side effects felt (a little nausea, possible tension, and strong tingling sensations) before the psychedelic effects start. These side effects will pass in a minute or so, but the entire first portion of the trip will not be as nice if taken this way.

Instead, you want to smoke the 15 mg dose spaced out in smaller doses so that you take about 5 minutes to smoke the entire dose. This will bypass the side effects altogether and the trip will be much more pleasant.

Here is some additional info:

Pickling lime (calcium hydroxide) can be substituted with equal portions of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) without any other modifications to the tech. Baking soda is a strong enough base to freebase bufotenine in these seeds, making it extractable by acetone. The only problem is that, unlike pickling lime, baking soda is slightly soluble in acetone so you’ll end up with a tiny bit in your final product, but the results are still very potent, and actually easier to grind to a powder. Baking soda is difficult to work with though. It tends to splatter from the release of carbon dioxide gas bubbles. If using it, make sure to put your stuff in a very tall container so that when it does splatter is doesn’t end up coming out of the container.

You should not use an acid other that citric acid. None of the other acids tested worked in this tech. This tech is all about changing the solubility of the alkaloids in acetone. Citric acid is soluble in acetone, but many citrate salts are not. The freebase alkaloids are pretty much all soluble in acetone (bufotenine, bufotenine n-oxide, DMT, DMT n- oxide, 5-MeO-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT n-oxide, etc.). Bufotenine citrate (and the n-oxide) is insoluble in acetone and I believe that the 5-MeO-DMT citrate (and the n-oxide) is also insoluble in acetone. DMT citrate (and probably the n-oxide) is soluble in acetone. This is why this tech loses the small amount of DMT present in the seeds. This doesn’t matter because these seeds contain mostly just bufotenine and bufotenine n-oxide and very tiny amounts of the other alkaloids. This seems to be the case for both A. peregrina and A. colubrina.

Another note, in the oven drying steps, a temperature of 65.5 C / 150 F is hot enough to vaporize freebase DMT. But since this tech wouldn’t extract it anyway, it doesn’t matter. Freebase bufotenine vaporizes at 320 C /608 F, so that temperature is safe for the target alkaloid.