Artificial Emotion
Bluelighter
I usually just ignore the dots on the outside. The only time I think you can tell there is definitely a problem with a visual inspection is if there is coffee ground type mould inside or what looks like cobwebs.
I usually just ignore the dots on the outside. The only time I think you can tell there is definitely a problem with a visual inspection is if there is coffee ground type mould inside or what looks like cobwebs.
had some nausea last night after pod tea to curb withdrawals
(but slept like a baby 10hrs! with the combo of 3pods PPT and 50MG diphenhydramine)
today made a weak batch with refigerated pod matter that I had brewed last night(and about a pod worth of new ground pod) - actually was able to brew something meaningful
this time I added some ginger root powder straight into the powder (which i had emptied in a plastic bag in order to try to ingest capsuls of Pod powder)
It was probably like 5 capsuls worth of ginger root supplement powder
no nausea at all! and tasted/smelled better too- which could have just been something with my stomach last night, or the fact that it was a weaker batch.
when I brew a fresh batch @ bedtime , i'll try again and see if it continues to hold off nausea.
I am about to purchase a soxhlet extractor to use to defat my pod tea but do not know whether to get the the 25ml (£168 ), 125ml (£169) or the largest extractor system, 250ml (£202) or whether the largest one is even big enough for my purposes. I will be defatting tea made from 5kg gross weight from pods (which include the seeds and everything except for the stems). Can someone tell me which one would be the best to buy?
I will be defatting tea made from 5kg gross weight from pods (which include the seeds and everything except for the stems).
There is your problem right there, why the hell are you grinding up the seeds? They add no opiates, seeds from whole dried pods have no opium residue.
All you're doing is making the resulting pod powder greasy and very perishable, I would not let anything with ground poppy seeds in it sit for long.
Next time you make tea don't grind the seeds, just the pod. Try it and I bet you'll like it much better.
I've never even heard about a Soxhlet before reading your post; although, I must say I am glad I've learned of such a piece of equipment. Anyways, after looking into using it on some MHRB for a DMT extraction I came across this.
The guy has a 500ml Soxhlet and is using 100g of plant (MHRB) material and is having a problem with it being too much plant matter.
"SWIM was under the impression that 500 ml soxhlets could handle 250g of MHRB but it doesnt look like it could being that it was so full w/ 100g"
http://www.dmt-nexus.com/forum/Default.aspx?g=posts&m=16912
From the looks of it, even if you got the 250ml Soxhlet, you'd need 20 of them for 5kg of dried pods. I think it would be for something like unprocessed Opium. Even then I am not sure, because typically, a Soxhlet extraction is only required where the desired compound has a limited solubility in a solvent, and the impurity is insoluble in that solvent. If the desired compound has a high solubility in a solvent (which Morphine does) then a simple filtration can be used to separate the compound from the insoluble substance.
Hope this helps.
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I meant that I'm only using the pod capsule itself, not the seeds, crown or stems. Whenever I make tea I keep the seeds for cultivation and bin the crowns and stems usually. I misspoke.
Ah sorry, if you don't mind my asking whats your goal with the extraction?
If you're trying to get pure morphine I'd say do a search, there has been a TON of guides that should work in theory yet I don't remember one person successfully extracting morphine from pods. One guy had a post where he used $XX worth of pods followed the methods that sounded right and it was a total waste.
I simply don't think its practical cost or time wise to do this.