This won't work with acetone too will it? making it anhydrous.

I'm curious about that too, Barmaley.

Table salt is faar less soluble in acetone than it is in ethanol or methanol, so it seems like it could.

If so, this would make FASA even easier.

Would FASA work with harmaloids?

What about Citric-ASA?

And has there been any more development on treating harmaloids with ascorbic acid?

FASA's not a good idea for harmaloids because acetone causes harmala red from what I hear.

As for the ascorbic acid thing, I tried it once and the end product was active with a less bitter taste and was less cloudy than the untreated extract. This could just have been because of a loss of potency during 5 hours of gentle boiling.

I have never tried THH so couldn't really compare it to what I had.

Isn't Harmala red only a problem when evapping? FASA circumvents that, no?

Also, I've read through this thread, and I didn't see if its been definitely determined whether harmala red is active or not. Has it been determined?

Kind of; SWIM has observed that freebased harmalas are somewhat soluble in acetone and can be precipitated out using FASA. But leave the fumarate harmalas in the acetone for some time (e.g. o/n) and one will see them turning red (=harmala red?)

SWI69ron has seen harmala salts turning to red with IPA and has found the harmala red to be inactive, SWIM has seen them getting red in ethanol, methanol and acetone but he has not bioassayed them. Since they turn red then something is happening to them and SWIM does not think it's good.