69ron wrote:Toluene does not compare at all with DCM. DCM is many times better. It will get all the alkaloids out, more than toluene, xylene, naphtha, and heptane. Its evaporates many times faster than the other solvents, it doesn’t smell as bad, plus it boils at a lower temperature than DMT. You can’t beat it.
It will pull more jungle spice, more DMT, and more 5-MeO-DMT than any other solvent. That’s why the pros use it.
So would it be advisable to use STB?
Swim is concearned with it picking up too much other stuff and creating a gunky mess. Hed like to just do a STB and make a full spectrum extract and leave things at that- just wants to make sure it will crystalize- he also worries that something potentially active may be removed from the jungle spice with the defat if he where to have gone the A/B route.
What about acidic extraction, followed by defat w/naphta, return the aqueous to the mash and then basify, extract and maybe a few very slightly basic washes before evapping.
If things dont crystalise good, then he can extract with hot heptane, crash that out and see if the leftovers dont have an easier time crystalising as well.