Hi there my friends.
I have been boiling 4 kilos of syrian rue.
this left me with 190 grams of "harmalas" after the first basification and 170 grams after second vacuüm flitering and basifying again.
I performed quite a few manskes and most of the times I fololow the instructions of the "tao of rue".
Most times the second some times the first way.
to fresh up the memory.
Step 6 - Manske
Once you have redissolved your alkaloids in a minimal amount of fresh, hot vinegar and then filtered the solution, it's time to perform the manske.
There are three ways you can perform the manske.
The first and the "official" way is:
Recommended
Take a note of how many ml's you have and add 10 grams salt per 100ml solution. Make sure your solution is hot before you add the salt, otherwise the harmalas might fall out too soon. Allow to cool slowly.
The second way by Phlux-:
Prettier Crystals
Take note of how many ml's you have and saturate the same amount of fresh distilled water with salt. Add them together and allow to cool slowly. If the first solution wasn't overly saturated with alks, you should get needles that are similar to what's pictured to the right. This seems to work better with an excess of water/vinegar to allow the crystals more room to grow.
The third way:
Completely saturate the solution with salt and allow to cool.
Not Recommended for Final Manske due to the higher chance of more salt contamination. It's better to use one of the above methods, preferably Phlux's on the final manske and push any remaining alks out by reducing the solution further after you filter the harmala hcl.
None of examples take into account the amount of "harmalas" used.
ITs about volumes of water/dissolved harmala in water vingar.
Step one would be to dissolve the 170 grams in water vinigar en filter it again.
But then, in what ratios would you go and continue the manske in this case ?
Or am I just confusing myself ?
Dissolving the 170 grams in water already will give me like 2/2,5 liter of solution and from there just follow the tao of rue ?
I just want to be sure I will get most of the harmine and harmaline crystalized.
Please, I need some advise.
I did 2 boils with whole seeds.
I am gonna skip the third.
First boil 160 grams second 20 grams
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