Alkaloid Extraction

Alkaloid Extraction

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One of the objectives of alchemy during its more proliferated days was to discover the elixir of life. Experiments were done on plants to extract their life force as a first step to discovering more about the force that drives living things.

The extraction of alkaloids from plants was one of the major activities of people studying alchemy. Alkaloids were considered to be the secret of any particular plant. They were commonly used in medicine as well as for recreational uses. Opium extracted from the Opium poppy though very controversial today due to its use in the manufacture of heroin was in an earlier time used to control pain. Digitalis out of the Foxglove plant was used to fight heart disease and reduce the risk of heart attack.

These days the medicinal use of alkaloids from plants is overshadowed by the great media attention given to recreational drugs. Alkaloids were used for recreational purposes for a long time before some of them were classified as illegal. Funnily enough the motives behind their sudden illegal status were not related to the well being of the population. Cannabis/Marijuana was forced into illegal status by the powerful lobby of the owners of plantations who feared that the apparently very versatile and useful hemp plant would be used to force them out of business. Opium was pushed into being illegal by the British who feared that the Chinese part of their population were forcing white women into decadence using Opium.

Nonetheless there are a lot of psychoactive plants that could be used for recreational purposes and the majority of them are completely legal to own. One example of a legal alkaloid is Dimethyl Tryptamine (DMT) which can be extracted from such sources as the Phalaris grass.

How are the recreational alkaloids extracted ? This is done by manipulating the solubility of the alkaloid by switching it from organic base form to inorganic salt and then retrieving the base again by using a powerful solvent such as naphthalene (gas lighter fluid). All this means that by combining the alkaloid with a number of different liquid substances its pure form is extracted from the plant matter that holds it. Click HERE to download a helpful document detailing alkaloid extraction for novices.

The list of alkaloids that can be used for recreational purposes is huge. Click HERE to download an encycolopedia detailing all the different alkaloids from plants that are legal to own.

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Alkaloid extraction theory can be used on the majority of alkaloids. In the document provided below the extraction is done to remove DMT Dimethyl Tryptamine our of Phalaris grass or one of the other carriers of DMT. The number of psychoactives available for extraction is vast, by consulting the psychoactives encyclopedia provided at the end of this document a lot of plants can be legally acquired for alkaloid extraction.

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