In answer to "what does it look like in the end?":
Well, if you use 95% drinkable alcohol (everclear) and evaporate your cactus extract down, you will have a sticky looking black tar, due to the 5% water.
If you use 99% nondrinkable alcohol (isopropyl) and evaporate your cactus extract down, you will end up with a powder which can be scraped and chopped up.
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If you aren't going to purify it via a full chemical extraction, then just do it the Traditional way... boil it down for hours in water and drink it the way they have been doing for thousands of years in Peru. It will make you puke and it tastes horrible, but its fool proof and time honored. It works. Red Earth reported good effects with the tea. I've had low doses of the tea and it really was a great experience!
i have also ground up the dried cactus flesh and encapsulated it but this requires swallowing 20 or even 50 capsules. it still makes you puke, though.
Tar seems to make most people radically sick... frighteningly badly sick. I would avoid its use. If you do try it, I would start with a very small dose to see how your body reacts.
If you are going to dry down to a tar or powder, beware. there are no rave reviews of this method and there are some stories of woe. Omacatl here reported good effects though on the alcohol extract evaporated down to a tar on page 11.
Boxedhearts:
This is not good. About 30 minutes after I ate the tar gelcaps, I got violently nauseated. I threw up, but only the water I drank with the caps came out. After about an hour, I started to get cold, and was profusely sweating. My body was tingling, like when your leg falls asleep, but all over my entire body. I thought maybe I was dying. sad.gif I kept trying to throw up, but nothing would come out. I started to get real scared, but kept it together. My clothes were drenched with sweat by this time and I was cold, so I went to take a shower, and that when I noticed that I have hives or a rash of some sort over most of my body....and it itches like CRAZY! I get out of the shower and I feel exhausted, lay in bed. My heart is beating TOO FAST and I think the reaper is coming for me again. I get up and dry heave every now and again. I must have fell asleep for a while, and as soon as I wake up, I have to puke again...I almost didnt make it to the bathroom...and out came everything! Thank god. The rash seems to be slowly fading and I'm not itching like a freak anymore....and no, I'm not tripping, but Im glad because after all that I want to go to bed.
Drinking gatorade now to rehydrate and counting my blessings.
Lycaeum message board:
In the dream, I let the 'tea' evaporate down to a highly concentrated 'goo'.
The concentration was arrives at by boiling in the traditional way. The heat
was lowered and fan forced air was sent over the top of a wok. The original
quantity was reduced to a very small area.
The original numbers concerning oz's, doses, etc. were remembered (8 doses
to the total biomass, etc.) and then the tar was fractioned up in a like way.
This tar ball was then swallowed. The dream then continued in a *very*
undesirable way. Desirable realms were never reached, but rather the
sensation of being poisened and very sick.
My impression of it at the time was that there was not enough bulk to allow
the body to filter the desirables from the undesirables. Rather the whole
concentrate made it's way into my system. In the dream I didn't feel right
for what felt like two days.
This unpleasent sensation was unique for me with this method and I have no
desire to revisit it.
What do you mean when you say as to burn the residue?
Anyone can do an A/B extraction. no need to get a degree in chemistry. its no harder than making cookies. It's easy to do and no nausea at 400 mg and less doses so far for me. I can't take the tar or tea, it makes me really nauseated and sick. I can't stand feeling nausea or getting sick anymore, so I stick with the pure mescaline. I've always liked acid because it doesn't make me sick or nauseated, and good clean purified mescaline will act the same way to a large extent.
Seriously.. if you can get the chemicals and a place to work... its not hard to do the a/b. If you gas your mescaline containing freebase, you will be able to capture the entire alkaloid complex of the cactus, and not just the mescaline, let it fall to the bottom of a sep funnel, and simply drain all the alkaloids off into a puddle, clean it and re-crystallize it.
Please report back if you try the alcohol tincture or tar extract, curious to see how it turns out.
http://forums.mycotopia.net/botanic...428-crystal-clear-mescaline-hcl-easy-pie.html
