Lasagnahog
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Making kratom extract for tincture:
When using the ethanol/citric acid technique, is it actually necessary to let the mixture sit for the week or so, as many recipes call for? I can?t tell if this step is meant for the evaporation of the alcohol or if this time is needed for the alcohol to dissolve the alkaloids (or maybe it?s both?).
If the time makes the difference in terms of getting all of the alkaloids out of the plant material then I?m all for not skipping this step, even if the majority are dissolved immediately.
Most of these teks I?ve found aren?t very clear about this. One says if you don?t let it sit then to use the hot water bath technique instead, which would seem to imply that the sitting-time step is in fact just for the purpose of evaporation.
As an experiment I made a tincture with a small amount (.5 oz) Red Maeng Da powder, just enough for a relatively small single dose. I skipped the sitting time and evaporated it to about half volume in a hot water bath (although I assume this step is unnecessary if you want to drink the alcohol) and drank it down when it was finished. I definitely feel some effects, but certainly not as much as the last batch I made in which I did let it sit for a week. However, the experiment wasn?t super consistent because this dose is smaller than I might have liked and the powder was a different brand. I was just curious.
So, does anyone have any good input on this? Does the sitting time make any difference at all in terms of potency? I mean, people make tea out of it and you don?t let that steep for a week?!
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I?ll greatly appreciate any information.
When using the ethanol/citric acid technique, is it actually necessary to let the mixture sit for the week or so, as many recipes call for? I can?t tell if this step is meant for the evaporation of the alcohol or if this time is needed for the alcohol to dissolve the alkaloids (or maybe it?s both?).
If the time makes the difference in terms of getting all of the alkaloids out of the plant material then I?m all for not skipping this step, even if the majority are dissolved immediately.
Most of these teks I?ve found aren?t very clear about this. One says if you don?t let it sit then to use the hot water bath technique instead, which would seem to imply that the sitting-time step is in fact just for the purpose of evaporation.
As an experiment I made a tincture with a small amount (.5 oz) Red Maeng Da powder, just enough for a relatively small single dose. I skipped the sitting time and evaporated it to about half volume in a hot water bath (although I assume this step is unnecessary if you want to drink the alcohol) and drank it down when it was finished. I definitely feel some effects, but certainly not as much as the last batch I made in which I did let it sit for a week. However, the experiment wasn?t super consistent because this dose is smaller than I might have liked and the powder was a different brand. I was just curious.
So, does anyone have any good input on this? Does the sitting time make any difference at all in terms of potency? I mean, people make tea out of it and you don?t let that steep for a week?!
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I?ll greatly appreciate any information.