Hi,
recently i have had a long tank with a friend, who doesn't live near me anymore, about DMT and Phalaris and he showed me a post that he claims to work pretty decently. It is stated as
"Basically you just juice some phalaris (brachystasis is best, arudinacea will do, latter contains more 5meo), boil it lightly for the chlorophyll to cobble together, filter a couple of times til you get a light brown organe-ish liquid, base that with NaOH, add naptha (petroleum ether, what is frequently labelled as VM&P naptha or, i believe, coleman's fuel, in the US; i think toluene or xylene will also do, maybe even better, or most any hydrocarbon non-polar, if these unavailable), shake the fuck out of it, allow the 2 phases to separate completely for a few minutes, get the non-polar one (naptha. a separatory funnel here would be great, but you can just go the technically shameless 2003-meth-cook ghetto way and use a large ziplock bag as a disposable sep funnel, or just make your life harder with a turkey baster).
now, either freeze precipitate (put in freezer and see crystals forming on the bottom), or evap at room temp."
So now i am asking for help, what else could i use if i dont have NaOH?
Will sodium carbonate do? I am no master of chemistry sadly and these things confuse me sometimes.
Thanks in advance