I am thinking about doing a caapi extraction using the herbal percolator.
But what is discouraging me is the enourmous amount of water that one has to use in the filtration: 15 litres per 100 gr. of caapi!! No way.
Anyway, I was thinking if it would be a good idea to use the same water to make many filtrations, so you would use much less of it at the end.
For instance, let me know what do you think about this method:
1) Load the percolator with 100 gr. of podwered caapi.
2) Pour 500 ml. of acidified water in the percolator and let if filter.
3) Collect the water and use it again through the percolator. Repeat this cycle 10 times.
4) After 10 filtrations with the same water, keep it apart and use new clean acidified water to start another 10 cycles of filtrations.
5) Do a third sequence of 10 filtrations with clean acidified water and put together all the resulting waters,
So, in the end you will have almost 1.500 ml. of water with the harmala salts extracted, and you can follow the standard extraction method without the heavy task of reducing 15 liters of water.
Do you think this would work? Has anyone tried it?
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