First post!

Herro all [: Swim has been skimming the pages of this forum for some time as he has been interested in the use of DMT for a growth and personal healing experience, and during other psychedelic experience (LSD) DMT has come as some sort of a 'key to the mind' of sorts (from its being naturally in the body). Swim has also been planning an extraction for a while from Chacruna which he has had left over from an Ayahuasca brew he attempted (which was barely felt) and is waiting for the right time to do an extraction. After some research Swim has found DMT seemingly to be the right thing to perhaps open his eyes.
So wondering now what other's opinions on any general healing aspects of DMT. Swim has been having general life motivation issues and has gotten to the point of giving up on most things while still accepting all and realising that we live in a wonderful magnificent world creating some sort of half dull half bright paradox of partial psychedelic emptiness. SWIM is also still having some relationship problems with somebody he got connected with deeply and truly during several close experiences on LSD resulting in an attachment which cant be fully shaken off now that the relationship lies in a past ruin. Swim was just wondering would DMT open to new (and perhaps old and lost) realisations which might give motivation and clarity and aid to these issues as research seems to suggest?

And also on the subject of an extraction...
Swim has looked a bit into extraction and understands roughly the procedure but wishes to extract using citric as the acid and perhaps (but not sure now) sodium carbonate as they are apparently food grade and also zippo lighter fluid because of all the above being so easy to acquire (already have citric). Swim, paranoid wants to avoid any chemicals which may be dodgy as a friend made him paranoid about any impurities messing with ones health (hence unsure about lye). Also Chacruna needs more of a defat stage right? But would Swim just be better off using an A/B tek?

Any help appreciated. Swim just thought better to ask then to do anything silly.
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About healing:

Don't expect dmt to solve your problems. DMT can give one a new perspective on life or help one get over some psychological issues. But it can also make them worse as can any psychedelic. Tread carefully and try not to rely too heavily on any substance.

About extraction:

I think zippo lighter fluid contains nasty impurities. Don't use it. Consult MSDS (material safety data sheet) before using ANY solvent. There is nothing wrong with using lye as long as one is very careful. Also acetic acid vinegar works good so no need to use citric acid. Unsure about how useful citric acid is.

I don't know about citric acid either - vinegar works for sure.
Go to the trouble of getting real naptha or heptane and lye.
Your chacruna may be bunk. That could be why your aya didn't work out. Leafy plants have a much more varying alk content than root bark. In any case, chacruna will require multiple defats or a second A/B like acacia to get a clean product.

Cool cheers. I guess I have some more researchy stuff to do :]

Yeh, it would be very obvious if you got lye in your final product. There were be great globs of lye-bark floating around in your naptha. If you're worried, though, you can always use lime.

Also, it probably would be better to just get some MHRB for the extraction, maybe even trade your chacruna for some MHRB! You'd have to have a hell of a lot of chacruna to make a worthwhile extraction, anyway. You could probably trade 50g of chacruna for 25g of MHRB or so, getting at least the same amount of DMT if not more. Please try doing so at

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I'm not advertising, just know some people who'd gladly trade you MHRB for your chacruna; it even makes me a little nervous to think of a ton of chacruna going into an extraction when it's of much more value to the ayahuasca-drinking community, and the MHRB would be a much nicer thing to work with during your extraction.

Also, you may feel the urge to try aya again after hanging around here for too long; and just because it doesn't work the first time doesn't mean it won't work the second! A slightly higher amount of caapi and some tannin-binding, and you'd probably be good to go.
If you're looking for healing, actually, trying again with aya and tweaking your extraction method might be the right choice. Vaped DMT is not really a healing experience, IMO it's very stressful and best attempted when in prime mental and physical shape.

I have used psychedelics many times to confront issues in my life with rewarding experiences. I have also avoided taking them in other situations if I feel it would interfere too much. I think only you can make that decision. The best outcome would be you get your motivation back, and you lose your attachments to this past relationship. The worst is you become even more attached to both of these issues. I think it is really how you go into the experience. Try to be positive about resolving these issues, and dont expect them all to be resolved fully in one trip.