The Technique(TEK): 1/2lb (224gs) of San Pedro var. Cactus powder is added to a clean 2 quart plastic HDPE2 ammonia bottle. 1500ml of tap water is added to the bottle and shaken. 6tbsps of NaOH(lye) is added using a funnel 1tbsp at a time. Cap and shake bottle after each tbsp to distribute NaOH(lye) evenly and to avoid melting the bottle. 500ml d-limonene or xylene solvant is added to bottle using a funnel which will fill the bottle to maximum capacity. Make sure to leave a little air bubble at the top to help with the mixing process. Cap and shake bottle as much as you can the first day and let sit over night. The strong alkaline cactus solution will shrink a bit over night so you will need to add a little more solvant the next day, shake again and let seperate. Drill a hole in a spare cap and feed a 3ft long piece of 3/8in clear vinyl tubbing at 8 and 1/4cm long from the bottom of the cap to siphon off the solvant. Cap and siphon solvant into a pint glass Ball mason jar. Make sure to only get solvant and no cacti solution. Some solvant will be left behind in the solution bottle. 300ml to 400ml of solvant is perfect for salting. Add 1tbsp NaOH(lye) to the cactus solution using a funnel, cap and shake. Add 2oz of distilled water to the jar of siphoned solvant and 2 drops of hardware store brand 31.45% muratic acid(HCl) using a tincture dropper and shake for 5min. Seperate layers in a quart ziplock freezer baggie or freeze hcl extract layer solid by putting jar in the freezer. Hang baggie up by one corner and carefully snip a small hole in the bottom corner to slowly drain the bottom clear to foamy layer into a clean ball mason jar. Drain the solvant layer back into the solution bottle, cap and shake for 5min then let seperate. At this point the solution will seperate in a few minutes. Shake and let seperate a few times to maximize extraction yields. Extract the cactus solution 4x. One right after the other. Do not wait another day. All extractions after the first day of seperation need to be perfomed back to back to ensure the highest purity from cactus fats and oils. After a few days of sitting and seperating, the solvant layer absorbs fatty oils that make the 2oz hcl water layers foamy instead of clear. All 4 hcl water extraction layers are collected together in a jar of 200ml fresh solvant and shaken repeatedly to wash the hcl extract solution. This will help remove any solvant soluble materials that may have polluted the hcl extract solution layer. The mixture is seperated with freezing. Make sure to remove the frozen hcl layer to evaporation(evap) dish before it melts or you will be scraping excess crystals off the inner jar. The hcl extract solution is evaporated on a large glass baking dish, using a fan or 150F oven. Fan evaporation will ensure that you do not damage the product. The oven is great for testing to see if alkaloids will crystal from the material being used or if the extractors are in a hurry. Pack into '0' gelatin capsules using the back end of a clean hammer nail. Refer to ekstanza's tek for more regarding this method.
A few kilos went into testing every possible angle with this tek. Thank Jah for all the gardens of Pachanoi around here or else that would have cost a buttload of dough. The tek managed to produce only 1 packed solid pill that has not been weighed. It is quite alot of work for so very little. But 1 solid pill is better than none. I did not manage to design a clean up for the final product due to the fact that it was already clean enough. I did try to test a recrystyalization using ammonia, but the foamy suds ruined that batch. I do have a digital ph meter and could easily make a water based ph11 solution using NaOH or sodium bicarbonate. That should easily work. But the basics here produce a good looking product and Im exhausted after all the extractions I have done already to possibly waste this good batch. If you guys saw all the mescaline I made and wasted doing test after test you would be sad. This very solid pill is being saved for an occasion where no one around me will be there to ruin it. Im talking all day nature hike with some ganja and goodies. This tek is very easy and very clean. That means little mess to clean up and easy to hide from your roomates and neighbors. I can actually feel good about buying some pervuian or bridgesii powder now and givin it a good whirl. Maybe I can get 2 pills a pull. Both d-limonene and xylene were used to produce extract. Both were equally matched in extracting. D-limonene was more friendly to work with and easier to cover up or to explain the odor. Xylene is cheaper and more readily available in town. I know for sure that you could use the Tek for extracting mimosa and rue. The amount of NaOH(lye) needed may be less. A ph11 recrystallization tek would be helpful for making absolutely purified DMT crystals. Wide mouth ball mason jars were used and preferred because they have measuring units molded into the glass jar which make it much easier to measure the liquid volumes.
