Crude San pedro mescaline extraction

[tadfish]

I got access to alot of san pedro and i'm not big fan of drinking that cactus soup shit. I want to know if you can do a crude extraction like by adding alcohol to cactus and then evapin off. Is mesaline alcohol soluble?
I got access to actetone, 96^% ethanol, citric acid and basically what ever you can get in an australian store.
I just want a crude extraction so i can gel cap it up

 

[TheDEA.org]

The mother of all san pedro extraction articles:

http://archives.thenook.org/tek/cactusex.htm

Essentially you need a strong acid (hydrochloric, sulfuric, etc., a strong base (good old Drain-O type clog removers), water, and some toluene or xylene to do the extraction.

Mescaline is an alkaloid; it's soluble in polar solvents like water when the pH is low, but soluble in non-polars like toluene when the pH is high. This effect allows you to isolate the mescaline by playing with the pH. Both the acid salt form of mescaline (low pH) and the freebase form (high pH) would be soluble in alcohol.

 

[tadfish]

thats to hard for me in it simpler
I'm sure alot of you have done crude extractions of mesacline from san pedro.
I just want it so i can make a couple dozen caps.
I have done and extaction of Hawaaiian baby woodrose seeds before with sucess i used the Naptha and ethanol method.
i got good results can i use something like that for this.
I want a quick easy meth without lab gear. i just got a funnle and filter and xylene, acetone, aclohol, napatha and citric acid, ph papers and few other common things

 

[tadfish]

Help need with things like mesaclines polarity. and what solvents will remove all the shit i don't want?
Like should i isolate it at high or low ph to get most of the shit out?

 

[TheDEA.org]

*shrug* There is no one-step idiot-proof method. You're going to have to invest some time and effort if you want to extract mescaline.

 

[specialspack]

Look at erowid. There's at least one idiot's guide to mescaline extraction.

Look, here it is http://www.erowid.org/plants/cacti/cacti_chemistry2.shtml

You'd probably get more answers in PD. Or, they'd tell you to UTFSE.