Opioids Kratom alcohol extraction/tea question?

[sekio]

That's because alcohol potentiates opioids quite well.

In any case, alcohol/water extractions are pretty crappy if you want to concentrate your kratom. Even acid/base extractions. The best method I saw involves defatting leaf powder with petroleum ether and then extracting the leaves with chloroform, yielding a few (1-2) percent by weight of ~80% pure mitragynine and other alkaloids.

If you cook kratom in water (i.e. boiling for extended periods of time) you will probably destroy some of the alkaloids. Cooking it in ethyl alcohol may also convert some of the alkaloids that are methyl esters to ethyl esters which may result in a slightly different feeling.

Also, to answer OP, yes - alcohol will boil out of water, but some water will boil too. Vapour pressure and all that.

 

[~QuirKyNai~]

So how.did u extract?with alcohol and water?or.one.or the other?i would think.to get all the alkaloids out,to.do an.alcohol extract,then to.do a.water.extract on.the same plant material then just combine the dried extracts.from both the water and the alcohol..that way you've.at least used two different solvents.to.extract.the alkaloids.

Id just like to know the best way to make a good resin extract,because i cant stomach.all that kratom powder.id like to just be able.to.have a glob og resin.to.keep.and.just.pull off what i need...or grind into.a powder and go that way