Question about DXM Agent Lemon process.

[frostblade10]

Hey fellas.

So last night I decided I wanted to trip balls. In the past when I have extracted DXM, i've done the free base method with ammonia, naptha, etc. Each time has been very successful, giving me pure white powder.

I decided I wanted to try the Agent Lemon method this time. I know it's not the best thing to use, but I used lemon juice that comes in the yellow plastic lemon instead of citric acid or a mixable lemonade powder.

In the second to last step, where you put the DXM ridden naptha in the lemon juice solution, I shook it very well, but the naphtha layer remained a white thick foam over night.

Today, I drained the lemon juice (bottom layer) into a sauce pan and boiled it for 12 minutes, and drained the naphtha layer (top layer) into the pyrex casserole dish i use for scraping the free base DXM.

Ideally, the DXM should have transferred to the bottom lemon juice layer but I found that there is DXM in each layer. I believe due to the lemon juice I used, the layers could not completely separate.

I tasted the lemon juice after boiling it... VERY bitter with little lemon flavor. I have read that these results are typical. Some mentioned that flavor oils from the lemon juice may transfer to the naphtha layer.

When I had completely evaporated the naphtha layer, I was left with what I believe to be DXM free base, but instead of being pure white like other times, when scraped, the powder is a lightish golden color. It tastes a little like lemon but is VERY bitter, which leads me to think it's DXM.

BUT, when I smell the powder, it has NO menthol smell at all.

So my question is, do you guys think it would be fine to ingest this yellow free base even though i've already done the lemon juice step? I would think it would be okay because i'm just extracting the rest of the DXM that didnt make it into the lemon juice, but I want to be sure so I dont harm myself.

Any answer asap would be greatyly appreciated. I want to eat it in 3 or so hours.

Thanks

 

[dread]

Start over and this time use vinegar instead of lemon juice, then simmer the vinegar down into a powder of DXM-acetate.

 

[frostblade10]

Start over and this time use vinegar instead of lemon juice, then simmer the vinegar down into a powder of DXM-acetate.

At the moment, i cant afford to redo it, though I will try that next time.

About the yellowish powder I have... If I were to ingest it, would it be fine to throw it in the agent lemon juice? Or would I still need to take it with a shot of alcohol?

Thanks for the reply btw, Dread.

PS, Would rice vinegar work? And would I need to mix it with water like I did with the lemon juice?

 

[PepperSocks]

Making sure the naphtha is all dried up from your product, I'd say it's fine to just consume your powder. It sounds like it's impure though, so your dosage might not be the same as what is regularly posted. You could just weigh it and put it in a gelcap or parachute.

To dissolve it in an aqueous liquid it has to be acidified. I don't know if lemon juice is acidic enough, if it still doesn't dissolve just add some citric acid. You'll have DXM citrate.

Any acidic vinegar would work, but who wants to drink vinegar? EWWW!

 

[frostblade10]

I thew the powder into the lemon juice and boiled it again. It all dissolved perfectly.

I just drank it all.

Here's what i took:

3 4oz tussin dm bottles (dxm only) = 900mg (im guessing the yield could be as low as 800mg), Agent lemon process. It started as 12oz of water and 5 tbsp lemon juice, boiled down to 4oz.

35x 10mg Sucrets lozenges dissolved in water. Water removed, DXM poured in bottle of orange juice.

I took turned taking swigs of each. The OJ is such a good chaser for the insanely bitter lemon juice.

I'll report back if I don't croak. :D