Thanks for reading this, first of all.
I have never tried DMT, and have spent several hours over the last week trying to wrap my head around the drug and see how well I am understanding things or where I have gotten things wrong. I learn best by checking my understanding as I go along and getting corrected as we go slowly. I have no chemistry background, and no experience with extraction. Let me just throw out some points at you and correct me where I'm wrong or help me understand the process slightly better, if you're game to answer any or all of my points.
1.) DMT is a molecule which is about 1% of the Mimosa Hostilis Inner Root Bark's makeup.
2.) It can be orally ingested only when paired with an MAO inhibitor, which does something to your body that stops your system from just 'burning it off' somehow? This mix of DMT fumarate and MAOI is typically ayuahuasca. DMT needs to be extracted to a salt of some kind to take it this way, a 'salt' is also called a fumarate or an ester. STB would also be called crystals? Or is it crystals in both a fumarate and STB?
3.) To smoke DMT, it is not a fumarate or ester, it is extracted STB (straight to base). Is this right, and does 'base' in this context refer to pH? I don't think it does, but what exactly is meant by base?
STB DMT extraction process goes something like this:
4.) Mimosa Bark (MHRB) is put in a mix of water (tap, distilled?) with a basing agent that makes the pH basic (high). This is called a mixture (two or more things mixed together). The base agent we use is NaOH, sodium hydroxide. This is usually lye, which is really caustic and dangerous to use so get fully protected with gloves, face protection, lab coat and goggles.
5.) The water/lye mixture softens the bark up and releases a bunch of the DMT from the bark so it is now floating around in the solution. Now we have to figure out a way to get it out of the mixture without taking the unwanted stuff out.
6.) We stick in Naphtha (is Coleman fuel a good substitute?) which is a solvent. Solvents dissolve things, but I am unclear what is being dissolved. But somehow, this results in a solution. I think the solvent passes through the water/bark/lye mixture and grabs the DMT molecules out and sticks them to the naphtha solvent. Solvents dissolve a solute (not sure what is the solute in this case, (the entire water/bark/lye mixture) and make something called a solution. Is the 'solution' the DMT molecules suspended or stuck to/in the naphtha?
7.) After rolling it around, we physically remove (pull) the now separated naphtha/DMT solution off of the surface of the container. Does this get refined further for contaminants?
8.) We either refine the DMT/naphtha solution somehow to remove impurities or not, but then put the solution in a glass dish where the naphtha will either evaporate slowly off completely, leaving behind DMT crystals to scrape and gather. Another process is to put it in a very cold freezer where DMT crystals will form and freeze out of the solution, but the naphtha will not, allowing us to take it out of the freezer and quickly pour off the naphtha, leaving only DMT behind to scrape and gather.
9.) There is still DMT in the naphtha so we use it at least once more to add back to the water/base/root mixture, adding a little more naphtha and water/lye to the mixture to get it going again. Then we repeat several more 'pulls', freezing/evaporating off the naphtha and gathering as much of the DMT as we can, about 1g DMT for every 100g of root bark.
10.) At different stages during the extraction, we are going to keep the mixture and solutions very warm to aid in both getting the DMT out of the bark into the water/base mixture, and out of the water/base mixture with the naphtha solvent and into the naphtha/DMT solution.
11.) There should be nothing of the naphtha left to smoke, and just pure DMT (or at least only impurities will be root bark particles). How to test this is to see if the solvent evaporates away without residue before using it in an extraction. Does Coleman naphtha do this?
This is my rudimentary understanding of the process so far. What have I gotten right and wrong? It has been said so many times that you should not simply follow a trek like a recipe without understanding what you are doing and trying to do at each stage, so I am doing my best to up my chemistry IQ until I can describe extraction to you step-by-step and what/why we are doing them.
Thanks in advance for marking my book report so far!
I have never tried DMT, and have spent several hours over the last week trying to wrap my head around the drug and see how well I am understanding things or where I have gotten things wrong. I learn best by checking my understanding as I go along and getting corrected as we go slowly. I have no chemistry background, and no experience with extraction. Let me just throw out some points at you and correct me where I'm wrong or help me understand the process slightly better, if you're game to answer any or all of my points.
1.) DMT is a molecule which is about 1% of the Mimosa Hostilis Inner Root Bark's makeup.
2.) It can be orally ingested only when paired with an MAO inhibitor, which does something to your body that stops your system from just 'burning it off' somehow? This mix of DMT fumarate and MAOI is typically ayuahuasca. DMT needs to be extracted to a salt of some kind to take it this way, a 'salt' is also called a fumarate or an ester. STB would also be called crystals? Or is it crystals in both a fumarate and STB?
3.) To smoke DMT, it is not a fumarate or ester, it is extracted STB (straight to base). Is this right, and does 'base' in this context refer to pH? I don't think it does, but what exactly is meant by base?
STB DMT extraction process goes something like this:
4.) Mimosa Bark (MHRB) is put in a mix of water (tap, distilled?) with a basing agent that makes the pH basic (high). This is called a mixture (two or more things mixed together). The base agent we use is NaOH, sodium hydroxide. This is usually lye, which is really caustic and dangerous to use so get fully protected with gloves, face protection, lab coat and goggles.
5.) The water/lye mixture softens the bark up and releases a bunch of the DMT from the bark so it is now floating around in the solution. Now we have to figure out a way to get it out of the mixture without taking the unwanted stuff out.
6.) We stick in Naphtha (is Coleman fuel a good substitute?) which is a solvent. Solvents dissolve things, but I am unclear what is being dissolved. But somehow, this results in a solution. I think the solvent passes through the water/bark/lye mixture and grabs the DMT molecules out and sticks them to the naphtha solvent. Solvents dissolve a solute (not sure what is the solute in this case, (the entire water/bark/lye mixture) and make something called a solution. Is the 'solution' the DMT molecules suspended or stuck to/in the naphtha?
7.) After rolling it around, we physically remove (pull) the now separated naphtha/DMT solution off of the surface of the container. Does this get refined further for contaminants?
8.) We either refine the DMT/naphtha solution somehow to remove impurities or not, but then put the solution in a glass dish where the naphtha will either evaporate slowly off completely, leaving behind DMT crystals to scrape and gather. Another process is to put it in a very cold freezer where DMT crystals will form and freeze out of the solution, but the naphtha will not, allowing us to take it out of the freezer and quickly pour off the naphtha, leaving only DMT behind to scrape and gather.
9.) There is still DMT in the naphtha so we use it at least once more to add back to the water/base/root mixture, adding a little more naphtha and water/lye to the mixture to get it going again. Then we repeat several more 'pulls', freezing/evaporating off the naphtha and gathering as much of the DMT as we can, about 1g DMT for every 100g of root bark.
10.) At different stages during the extraction, we are going to keep the mixture and solutions very warm to aid in both getting the DMT out of the bark into the water/base mixture, and out of the water/base mixture with the naphtha solvent and into the naphtha/DMT solution.
11.) There should be nothing of the naphtha left to smoke, and just pure DMT (or at least only impurities will be root bark particles). How to test this is to see if the solvent evaporates away without residue before using it in an extraction. Does Coleman naphtha do this?
This is my rudimentary understanding of the process so far. What have I gotten right and wrong? It has been said so many times that you should not simply follow a trek like a recipe without understanding what you are doing and trying to do at each stage, so I am doing my best to up my chemistry IQ until I can describe extraction to you step-by-step and what/why we are doing them.
Thanks in advance for marking my book report so far!
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