SWIM purchased 114g of seeds from
Flowing Visions at $5.58. He put the seeds in his glass blender and filled the blender half full of distilled water. He poured in a little big of vinegar and let it soak for 15 minutes. He blended the seeds up and emptied the yellowish/seed mixture into a pot. He lightly boiled for 45 minutes. He strained off the liquid, added the seed mush back in the blender and repeated the previous steps. He did this 3 times and then combined the liquid extracts. He boiled this down to a little over half a quart.
While doing this, SWIM boiled distilled water in another pot with
Morton's Rock Salt. He added salt until the water was completely saturated in NaCL. He boiled this down to a little less than half a quart.
SWIM combined these two liquids into a
1 Quart Wide Mouth Mason Jar. He added a small amount of warm temperature distilled water. He placed in the freezer for 1 hour, and then moved the jar to the fridge. He let it sit in the fridge for a day and a half.
SWIM then strained the liquid and added the red harmala crystals to hot distilled water). He thoroughly mixed the jar up (SWIM forgot to strain this through a filter at this stage), and then added a small amount of Ammonia. The red liquid quickly turned yellow. SWIM mixed this up and allowed it to decant for a few hours. He strained this and allowed the tanish colored harmalas to dry out.
Final product in below pics. He has not weighed the final product yet but will post when he does so. SWIM has a question, what are the differences (pros or cons) of using Ammonia for the A/B and using Sodium Carbonate for the A/B.
SWIM also wonders what distinct taste harmalas have. Thanks and have a good thanksgiving.
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-Watts-
"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies — all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
-Huxley-