un-known-ome wrote:I am going to receive another 100 grams of san pedro powder shortly, and I am carefully considering the various ways of preparing it for oral dosing. Last time making tea was a success, but it tasted quite rancid, the consistency was brutal, and it was more difficult to make than it had to be. I have a few questions:
-What is the relative potency of Everclear soaking to other methods?
-Does the powder coagulate in the same way that it does when soaked in water?
Everclear should be right behind methanol, which is the best next to water.
Either will work great (etoh/meoh) especially if dry iirc. It won't swell at all like tea, no goop, penetrates cell walls, and its more polar(better solvent for mescaline salts) than isopropyl.
I've been contemplating on getting some denatured alcohol to try this with, hopefully with a bit of methanol and very little else as a denaturant. Or just use iso since it should work, just more solvent required.
Then if you take that resin and dissolve in slightly acidic hcl or vinegar water, and filter you get much less oils/fat/crap that alcohol pulls along with the phenethylamine salts that water doesn't. IE less polar crap. Evap that to get etoh/meoh residue free resin thats much more potent by weight than alcohol resin and easier to work with.
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