extracting mescaline

[irridium77]

Hi,

I have quite alot of peyote cacti over here,
And I was asking myself: If you have to boil them for the mescaline to release from the cactus, you get a mixture of mescaline and water.

Referring point: Throw salt in water, let it dissolve, let the water evaporate...
what do you see when the water is completely gone?
right: salt crystals.

now the questions:
- How does it come that the salt doesnt evaporate?
- Does the salt has a certain property that makes it "immune" to evaporating?
- If so explain the above?
- Could I do the same with mescaline water?

You prolly all get the point?
I want to know, If i cook my cacti, let the juice evaporate, Will the mesaline form crystals?

thq
Grtz irridium

 

[Jahvisions]

Well the salt you talk about is NaCl or KCl, this has a higher boiling temperture then water so it won't go in gas form at the temperture water evaporates. Theoratically it's possible probably(i'am not sure, but internet contains a lot of info if you're really interested). But it takes a lot of time to evaporates water and if you speed it up by heating the molecule is probably degrading.

 

[Meduzz]

Water evaporates. Salt doesn't (that's why the dead sea is so salt). So if you would evaporate the water from a cactus stew the mescaline would not evaporate. BUT lots of other things don't evaporate as well. You won't get any chrystals.

If you want chrystals you need an acid-base extraction

 

[irridium77]

If you want chrystals you need an acid-base extraction

enIn what product then? i'm not a chemistry student...
how will this procede work?

i'll google on some shit, cuz this really sounds fun: pure mescaline

grtz

 

[user_1919]

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cacti/cact ... ide9.shtml

May need some chemistry skills, but it seems pretty basic.

 

[JustinNed]

Just pure chemicals, and an idea of what you are doing.