I got about a gram and a half yield, from a pound of seeds, considering that only 10ml's is nessasary for a full on experience,this is a good yield!
My first extract was a bit to dirty cuz I didn't let the lime-paste get bone dry before powdering it and adding acetone, but I corrected this by redissoving the extact in a little acetone, filtering this through a coffee filter, than letting that dry to what was a first a black tar, but eventually dried to a brown powder. This brown powder was plenty concentrated enuf for me!
M.G. Seed...do you not recall this post ...that you had a bit of a problem with, cuz of a slight diss on america that Anadenanthera included in his tech?
At any rate here it (the tech) is again...
The following tec, and a pound of good yopo seeds, yielded several marbles of black gummy material, that when vaporized off foil, in small (apple-seed) doses gave a like-dmt-but-different effect that came on slow, with a strange but not unpleasant muscle tightness, that subsided in a few minutes time and was replaced by an intence visual/visionary period, that was very dmt like, but with more 3-d depth (kind of a clear-glass effect) and very quickly (flash-flash-flash) transisition through scenes. This lasted about ten minutes, and then was replaced by about a 20 minute period of more ghostly, less vivid/colorfull visions that were also very cool. This was followed by a very nice (goodmood) afterglow that lasted for several hours.
All in all, in all honesty, I have to call this compond, whatever it is, a first-rate fully immersive visionary substance, that I find just as amazing, but less scary (partially cuz of it's slower come-on) then dmt. Two thumbs up!
In the tec, you want to make sure your yopo-pickling lime paste mix is bone-dry before powdering and adding acetone, or else the water in it will carry alot of crap into the extract
So here's the tec.......
You want to start with water. If you start with alcohol, it pulls out a TON of fat and oil from the beans. If you don't mind de-fatting your extract, alcohol will do fine. De-fatting is a drag. However always make sure to add calcium hydroxide at some point near the end of your extraction or you’ll end up with an acidic form of bufotenin which will make you sick.
Here’s a simple tech that anyone can do.
* Go to a country were this is 100% LEGAL! Do NOT do this in a country were it is not 100% legal to do so. Its legal in most countries. I like Brazil. Its not legal in the US. What's wrong with Americans? I thought this was the land of the free like the song says.
* Boil the powdered beans covered in plenty of water (made pH 3 with hydrochloric acid, or just use 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water). Filter out the beans. You might want to do this a few times to get all the alkaloids.
* Evaporate the water extract down to a syrupy consistency. You can use an oven at 175 F to evaporate your stuff if you like. It’s best to use a commercial food dehydrator for this.
* To your syrup add alcohol (91% isopropyl alcohol is great), enough to make it easy to poor. Mix it for a minute or so. Solids will forms.
* Filter out the solids that form and discard them.
* Evaporate your alcohol down to a syrupy consistency.
* To your thick syrup add calcium hydroxide (pickling lime for cooking), enough to make a paste. Mix it thoroughly. It should start to smell like ammonia. Let it sit for many hours. Once the ammonia smell is gone, the reaction is complete. Instead of aweful acidic bufotenine you now have the superior calcium bufotenate in your extract.
At this point you have two options:
Alcohol option :
* mix in a generous amount of alcohol to soak up the bufotenine. Filter out the solids, evaporate your alcohol to get a pretty good extract (about 30% calcium bufotenate). Break it up into a fine powder. About 5 mg is a good starting dose for vaporizing it.
Acetone option :
* dry your extract completely. Then break it up into a fine powder.
* mix in a generous amount of acetone (available as a 100% pure solvent at most hardware stores) to soak up the bufotenine. Filter out the solids, evaporate your acetone to get a pretty good extract (about 75% calcium bufotenate).