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This is probably a really dumb question, but if one was to soak tryptamine containing pant matter in just xylene, then decanting and evaporating the solvent, would the product be a crude but usable, tryptamine containing extract?

to my understanding, tryptamines are soluble in xylene. it would be the same concept as extracting LSA with ever-clear, or something similar.

I am by no means a chemist, so I might sound like an idiot to experienced practitioners and nexus regulars, but I am very curios if the results of a crude extract using xylene as a solvent would be something usable.

thank you for the help.

There's really no such thing as a crude extract. You put more thought into acknowledging that the question may be ridiculous than the question itself.

I'm gonna try to help here, I'm taking a guess of the intention communicated with the crude word and giving an answer aimed at that, but the answer would be much different otherwise..

Powder or pulverize it, add at least 2/3 water, add lye, or at least sodium carbonate till it turns blackish, then go ahead with your xylene.

That's about as simple as it gets, if that's too complicated then you must spend some more time over at the wiki.

No, tryptamine alkaloids in natural state are polar (in form of salt with some organic acid), thus are not soluble in non polar liquid like xylene.

Thank you very much for clearing things up.