After a break I am into extracting harmine and harmaline from syrian rue again.
The seed I bought where whole.
The first kilo I made into 1,5 liter concentrate to drink.
For the second kilo I just wanted the harmaline and harmine.
With the second kilo I came upp with an idea.
Atfer the first boil I decided to use my slow juicer to crush the seeds.
I learned before that putting them through the juicer after freezing and thowing was a bit to rough for the machine.
So, After the first boil the seeds where soft and got crushed very nice.
I kept the first pull separate from the second and third.
Only the second and third pull where with crushed seed.
The second and third left me with a messy filtering proces.
After filtering reducing and filtering again I finally filtered through a buchner with lab filtration paper and basified the lot.
Results.
1 pull, uncrushed seeds, 28 grams
2 and 3 crushed 22 grams
This does not say a lot.
I know the consencus is that powdered seeds/crushed seeds will bring a higher yield.
I really dont like the mess of powdered/crushed seeds.
anyway.
I slow juicer is a nice tool to use
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