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Geschrieben von: Sphere May 14 2003, 17:55

If you would like to see over 100 pictures of Salvinorin crystals join this group and go to the photo files: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Salvinorin

Edit: I have recently put my photographs of salvinorin crystals at a new URL which offers far larger resolutions: http://www.imageevent.com/sphere

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 14 2003, 17:58

Bild: http://www.salvia-community.net/images/salviacrystals/post-20-1052883842.jpg

Salvinorin Crystals

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 14 2003, 18:00

Someone just PM'd me welcoming me here, I don't understand your language well enough to be able to navigate here to send a PM back, I tried, but it failed. Thank you for your welcome, but having so much difficulty understanding your language I won't be spending much time here but I did want to post these documents and pics.

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 14 2003, 18:06

How to grow your own Salvinorin crystals:

Methods to Salvinorin Crystallization:

1. Crystalline precipitation in cooling solvents: Dissolve as much near pure salvinorin powder as you can into 151 proof Everclear Ethanol Alcohol (25% water) warmed to 130-140 degrees F. and then wait for it to cool to see if crystals appear (191 proof Ethanol containing only 5% water might work better). Sometimes I have to re-heat a vial of Salvinorin and Ethanol several times to at or just below boiling before they might grow when cooling. If they are going to appear they should be there within an hour or two. Each time I re-heat a vial containing salvinorin dissolved into 151 proof Everclear Alcohol I loose some of the Salvinorin and crystals don't always grow, but they usually show up on the fourth try.

2. Crystalline deposits from solvent evaporation: Dissolving high purity salvinorin into Acetone and allowing the solvent to slowly evaporate at room temperature so that it evaporates very slowly will sometimes produce large crystal formations over a period of a few days to a week, but not always. I have grown crystals by evaporating Acetone fairly quickly in either an oven at 120 degrees f (just an ounce of solvent) or by having a fan blow air across an ounce of salvinorin saturated Acetone, but the crystals usually do not form as large as they do when the evaporation occurs slowly. Also, if you have not removed enough of the chlorophyll waxes the crystals will be hard to see, so try to remove as much of it as you reasonably can if your going to try to grow crystals. The extract should be better than 90-95% free of Chlorophyll impurity if trying to grow crystals otherwise the waxy impurities will hide them from view or stick to the surfaces of the crystalline structures, although if the evaporation container is both small and deep enough like some spice bowls are the Chlorophyll in the solvent usually deposits high up on the sides of the glass as the fluid level evaporates down, by the time the solvent level gets near the bottom of the glass where crystals start to precipitate out of the fluid, most of the Chlorophyll is already out of the solvent.

3. Isolation of crystals from dried extract using Naphtha: Through trial and error extraction research I was surprised to find that the dark waxy extract from a 99% Isopropanol extraction of Salvia divinorum is loaded with small crystals which are formed within the dark waxy Chlorophyll compounds as the solvent evaporates. The following explains how to isolate them out of dried extract but will only work if you have removed as much of the tannin contaminate as you can from the extraction solvent first. The way I do this is by letting the extraction solvent sit undisturbed for 12-24 hours to allow enough time for the tannin to settle out of the fluid as a fine sediment. Once the tannin has settled pour the extraction fluid into another container for evaporation, leaving the tannin behind. Next, the extraction solvent is completely evaporated leaving a dry waxy extract behind. Once free of any hint of extraction solvent and completely dry, pour in a few ounces of pure Naphtha and scrape every bit of the extract into the Naphtha, including all films which may have formed on the sides of the evaporation container. Completely dissolve every bit of the extract into the fluid until all of the clumps are worked out of it. Once your finished working all of the clumps out of the extract it is very important to leave the container of Naphtha alone to sit still for at least a half hour or more to allow enough time for the fine salvinorin particulates stirred up into the Naphtha to settle to the bottom of the container. After the extraction solids have settled you can then pour the Naphtha off of the extract in the bottom and then add more clean Naphtha back to the container to wash the extract through again, waiting a half hour or more each time. Keep washing the extract with Naphtha until it will no longer take on much more color and has become a light tinted translucent green.

After it's obvious that Naphtha has become ineffective removing additional Chlorophyll and unable to take on more color with each additional wash of the extract, pour off all of the Naphtha and completely dry the extract of any hint of Naphtha. Next, pour in an ounce or more of water into your container of extract and stir for a couple of minutes, allow time for the particles to settle to the bottom of the glass and pour the water off, adding more water to the extract and stirring again. If tannin is present in the extract the water will become a yellow to brown tint, but if using a cup or more of water at a time small amounts of tannin being dissolved out of the extract might be so diluted by that large of an amount of water to be unable to see any change of color to know if its being removed, because of this I like to work with only an ounce of water at a time to be able to know when all of the tannin has been completely removed and I can stop washing with water. Once you are done removing tannin with water completely dry the extract of all moisture and place all of the dried extract into a small two inch diameter spice bowl, or even a small shot glass or something of similar size. Next, pour in enough fresh Naphtha into the glass of extract so that there is about a half inch of Naphtha on top of the extract and briskly stir for about a minute with a spoon, then place the glass or bowl into an electric oven set to about 120 degrees F. with its door cracked open a couple of inches and evaporate all of the Naphtha out of the glass. Keep the small container of Naphtha as far away from the heating elements as possible because there is potential for fire. When using this technique by leaving the glass or bowl completely undisturbed in a warm oven while the Naphtha is evaporating off the extract, the heavier salvinorin crystals will all fall to the bottom of the glass while the lighter Chlorophyll impurity forms an upper crust on top. Once all of the Naphtha has been completely evaporated out of your extract you can freeze the glass to cause the top layer of wax to stiffen up enough to be able to easily peel the crust off of the top to expose nothing but golden colored to light green high purity sand-like salvinorin crystals in the bottom of your glass. They might not seem like crystals unless seen under magnification, but they are.

Note: I stumbled upon method three as a complete surprise when I was experimenting with water extractions of leaf for an hour in boiling hot water, then removing the leaf and evaporating the water off all the way down to dry tannin which was then extracted using 99% IPA to recover the salvinorin lost to the water, about 50%. I then removed the tannin from the IPA through settling and after evaporation cleaned the extract with Naphtha as well as I could. After drying the Naphtha cleaned extract I then did a water of the powder just to be sure I had removed all of the tannin contaminates and then after pouring the water off dried the extract. As an added measure, just to make sure the extract was clean enough I added about an ounce of Naphtha to it and stirred the powder into the solvent to see if it would take on any more color, which it didn't, so instead of pouring the Naphtha off I just put it into an oven set to 120 F. to evaporate and was later surprised to find nothing but crystals under a thin crust of Chlorophyll. These crystals could not have formed within the Naphtha itself because salvinorin is insoluble to Naphtha, so the crystals had to have come strait out of the extract itself, having formed when the 99% Isopropanol was being evaporated down to a dry extract. Prior seeing this, I didn't know that the dark Chlorophyll wax deposited upon evaporation of the extraction solvent had crystals in it and as far as I know neither did anyone else. No one seems to be very interested in using this new method yet, but in my opinion it is the easiest and most efficient way of obtaining high purity salvinorin that there is.

Warning! The above method of evaporating any amount of Naphtha in an electric oven could cause a fire or worse. I only post this for informational purposes. It worked for me without problems but it might not work for you without causing a fire!


Pictures from method one:

I grew the crystals in the pictures below by dissolving 900 milligrams of refined salvinorin powder (light green color) into 100 ml of hot 140 degree F. 151 proof Everclear drinking Alcohol (Ethanol) and then set aside for two hours at room temperature each time to see if crystals formed. I had to go through three cycles of heating and cooling before these beautiful crystals appeared. The first three times through only a cloud appeared composed of extremely small crystals not visible to the eye except as a cloud. On the fourth heating I came back two hours later and found these beautiful large crystals had formed. When heating your Alcohol thoroughly shake or mix the salvinorin powder into the Alcohol to dissolve as much as possible. Keep adding salvinorin to the hot fluid until I will no longer dissolve any more and has a few specks of solid salvinorin in the bottom which won't completely dissolve to indicate that you have fully saturated the hot Alcohol. When the Ethanol cools back down to 20 degrees C. sometimes salvinorin crystals will precipitate out of the fluid because the Alcohol cannot hold nearly as much salvinorin when cooled down to room temperature. Just leave it alone and let it cool down to room temperature setting on a shelf, nothing special needed. I have used 99% Isopropanol to grow crystals this way too, but they are always much smaller than when using Ethanol. Acetone won't form crystals at all, Methanol will sometimes form larger crystals than Ethanol, but hasn't been as reliable for me compared to 151 proof Everclear Alcohol which usually takes three or four cycles of re-heating the 100 ml jar before nice crystals form. I have been able to grow crystals in 151 proof Ethanol the same way using a much smaller 30 ml vial of hot Alcohol with as little as 100 mg of Salvinorin producing the same size of crystals.

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These crystals were sent in for analysis and were found to exceed 99.5% purity using HPLC without any other peaks showing.


Pictures from method two

The following two pictures are of some very nice white salvinorin crystals which formed through slow evaporation of Acetone at room temperature. These crystals were produce by adding white salvinorin powder into a small bowl full of Acetone warmed to a temperature of about 130 degrees F. then stirring in as much salvinorin-A powder that could be dissolved into it and setting it aside for a week. When I came back I found these crystals. Sometimes crystals will grow, other times none will form at all. The second picture was taken close up using a zoom stereoscope set to 45X magnification. The light brown colored material at the base of the crystals is tannin sediment that was not removed from the salvinorin powder like I should have done by mixing water into the extract to dissolve any remaining tannin contaminate into it and then pouring the water off to remove it. Of course dried before adding to the hot Acetone.

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Pictures from method three:

The following pictures are salvinorin crystals obtained strait out of dried Chlorophyll waxes from a 99% IPA extraction. The photograph on the left was taken on macro within about three inches of the bottom of a regular drinking glass used to evaporate Naphtha cleaned extract that had about a half inch of clean Naphtha stirred in just before placing the glass into an oven for evaporation. The smooth layer you see is a waxy crust of Chlorophyll waxes which formed on top of the salvinorin crystals below it. I tore a portion of the wax off the top to show the crystals underneath. The photograph on the right was taken with a zoom stereoscope set to 30X magnification.

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If you would like to see over 100 pictures of Salvinorin crystals join this group and go to the photo files: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Salvinorin

Geschrieben von: AuQ May 14 2003, 18:38

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Geschrieben von: Barley_Mob May 14 2003, 20:57

... smile.gif

Geschrieben von: backfisch May 14 2003, 21:11

*sprachlos*
verarbeitung des gerader gelesenem textes wird gestartet.... *g*

Geschrieben von: yaKOS May 15 2003, 11:14

...really nice crystals! smile.gif

I'm gonna try it too sometime, I hope I'll be able
to grow some crystals, even if not that clean as yours are.

I'll then post my experiences here too, and when I find the time,
I'm gonna try to translate your experiences into german.

An die Webmaster:
kann man nicht zusätzlich ein internationales Forum einrichten?
Es gäbe bestimmt auch viel Zuwachs aus allen möglichen Ländern...

-yaKOS

Geschrieben von: ElDuderino May 15 2003, 15:57

QUOTE(yaKOS @ May 15 2003, 11:14)
An die Webmaster:
kann man nicht zusätzlich ein internationales Forum einrichten?
Es gäbe bestimmt auch viel Zuwachs aus allen möglichen Ländern...

Genau das habe ich mir auch gerade gedacht, nur wohin damit?
Ich werde schon was finden.

Topic moved to "International" Forum

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 25 2003, 09:24

Go to this link for a full Q and A on Salvia divinorum extractions and refinement of Salvinorin:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2949346&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Geschrieben von: wasgugsdu May 25 2003, 20:43

Sphere, how much leaves did you use to produce that amount of salvinorin A crystals?

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 25 2003, 21:23

I usually extract from no less than 100 grams at a time. The amount shown in the photograph isn't really that much because it was magnified 10X

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 29 2003, 11:18

Post replaced (above) with information on how to grow salvinorin crystals.

Geschrieben von: Guest_Sphere Jun 19 2003, 07:40

Here is another photograph of Salvinorin crystals. The brown colored material beneith are sediments.

Geschrieben von: Grünerfreund Jun 19 2003, 18:42

FRAGE: Warum übersetzt das keiner in Deutsch würds auch gern lesen !
kann nemlich kein Enlisch mad.gif würd mich sehr freuen wenn sich nicht nur für mich auch für andere SD-user die kein Enlisch können die Arbeit machen würde das zu übersetzen.....danke

Geschrieben von: Barley_Mob Jun 19 2003, 19:54

Ich will dir ja jetzt nicht zu nahe treten, aber warum kannst du kein Englisch???

Geschrieben von: Grünerfreund Jun 22 2003, 19:07

Muss ich denn Englisch können ? Ich kann ja ne bissle aber das reicht für sohne fetten texte nicht aus .Und ich bin bestimmt nicht der einizge....

Geschrieben von: Guest Jun 22 2003, 21:07

Bestimmt ein "Salvia-Kiddie" ...
wink.gif

Geschrieben von: Barley_Mob Jun 22 2003, 21:27

hehe...

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS Sep 16 2003, 12:44

Es ist doch verdammt nochmal nicht so schlimm, kein oder wenig englisch zu können...

Aber nochmal zum Übersetzen...Um den Text komplett zu übersetzen (obwohl es ein sehr einfaches, klares sachliches Englisch ist) würde einige Stunden in Anspruch nehmen...

Und ich weiß nicht ob jemand soviel Zeit "nur" für die Community entbehren kann tongue.gif


So long
SiR

Geschrieben von: radi Sep 16 2003, 16:37

Also ich möchte behaupten ich kann Enhglisch, hab aber trotzdem ganzschön Probs mit dem Text, weil doch ne Menge nicht gebräuchlicher Vokabeln drin vorkommen, aber wie wäre es, wenn die die grad meinten das es kein Prob ist das übersetzen ?

Einen Text den man gut versteht kann man fast abschreiben, das sollte keine Stunde in Anspruch nehmen.


Naja, würd mich auch über eine Übersetztung freuen, erwarte aber nicht das es wer rafft cwy.png

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS Sep 17 2003, 14:56

okok, ich hab mir ein Herz genommen und bin grade am übersetzen, aber erst bei den FAQ angelangt...das wird wahrscheinlich noch ne Woche dauern bis ich durch bin

Geschrieben von: Grünerfreund Sep 17 2003, 18:03

Yo vielen dank SiRiuS! Bin schon ganz heiss drauf es zu lesen .

mach weiter so.... w00t.png

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS Sep 18 2003, 20:08

Mehr als ein Drittel ist schon getan, hab auch mal den Verfasser angemailt, ob das klargeht mit der Übersetzung...

So long
SiR

edit: verdammt, jetzt ist mir auch noch meine maus kaputtgegangen, was bedeutet dass ich mit touchpad weiterarbeiten muss :-/

Geschrieben von: Sphere Feb 5 2004, 07:06

http://www.entheogen.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000101#000001

Geschrieben von: Cqueberel Feb 5 2004, 20:01

Hm, das ist vielleicht etwas gar gemein von mir, aber in Zeiten, in denen Englisch ein Pflichtfach ist... muss ich schon sagen... ist jemand, der den Text nicht versteht, entweder zu jung oder zu doof, um das im Text beschriebene aus zu probieren. Pardon.

An Sirius: hast du die Übersetzung eigentlich je fertig gebracht? Ich habe ja noch irgendwo meine halbfertige Übersetzung des S. d. - Manuals herumliegen und bin mir nun meines ursprünglichen Vorhabens nicht mehr so sicher. Und dabei hab ich schon Daniel Siebert angemailt gehabt, damit er den Text dann auch auf sagewisdom hostet. Wie peinlich.

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS Feb 6 2004, 15:13

Bin leider noch nicht weiter gekommen mit meienr Übersetzung...liegtr daran das ich grade im Abi-Stress bin, und kaum Zeit hab...
aber während dem Studium dann, werd ich sicherZeit haben smile.gif

Gruß
SiR

Geschrieben von: napNR1 Feb 28 2004, 23:17

viel glück dann mit dem ABI smile.gif ich hab den stress noch vor mir ... in 2 jahren dann sad.gif

Geschrieben von: Sphere Mar 3 2004, 12:18

Post removed, link no longer works.

Geschrieben von: napNR1 Mar 3 2004, 17:11

good txt .. sorry but how can i "konsumate" the cristals ?? dry.gif

Geschrieben von: thneme Mar 3 2004, 17:56

//

Geschrieben von: Dille Mar 3 2004, 18:47

QUOTE(napNR1 @ Mar 3 2004, 17:11)
good txt .. sorry but how can i "konsumate" the cristals ??  dry.gif

i guess if you don't know exactly what you're doing, and that would make the question redundant,
you should not consume salvinorin crystals !

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS Mar 3 2004, 20:18

Salvinorin Chrystals should be used just for scientific research.
Unless you don't have acces to a method to measure µ-grams, you shouldnt leave it.

ANother way, that could be considerable, if you really like to try it, is to solve a certain amount of christals in a certain amount of alcohol an consume parts of the solution smile.gif

Or just leave it smile.gif

greetings
SiR

Geschrieben von: Sphere Mar 3 2004, 22:19

http://www.entheogen.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000101#000001

Geschrieben von: Sphere Mar 4 2004, 11:31

Oh, I forgot to add. If you want to download the photographs of crystals and extractions you can find zipped files at http://www.entheogen.com/articles/2004/sphere_pics.html - They have links to the files stored on their site all winzipped together.

Here is a link to a page that someone anonymously wrote about the extraction process I use. I have no idea who wrote it, but I did proof read it. http://www.entheogen.com/articles/2004/salvinorin.html

Bild: http://www.entheogen.com/images/site-and-article-images/salv_a.jpg

edit: There is one big problem with the article, the "anonymous" author who turns out to be the owner of Iamshaman.com who I have found out also owns entheogen.com - He will not allow the article to be edited to show that chilled Acetone is a very efficient extraction method because this is the same one he uses for making his own enhanced leaf and does not want anyone else to catch on how good it is because it is the most efficient for the amount of work required to extract and refine salvinorin. Hot high proof Ethanol will work just as efficiently as chilled Acetone. I found that the solubility of salvinorin to Acetone chilled down to -15 degrees F. was better than 80 degree F. Ethanol.

Geschrieben von: Sphere Apr 15 2004, 04:30

If you want to down load some nice pictures of Salvinorin crystals go to:

http://www.entheogen.com/articles/2004/sphere_pics.html

Geschrieben von: Sphere Apr 30 2004, 22:52

double post please delete

Geschrieben von: SiRiuS May 3 2004, 19:33

Wow - ;-)

That's all I can say this time ;-)
I always wonder where you get those loads of Salvia leaves, to support your extensive research.

Greetings SiR

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 8 2004, 22:01

Leaf comes direct from Mexico: http://www.aztecasplants.com/

I bought 10 kilos for my research, used it all up now.

Geschrieben von: Dille May 9 2004, 12:40

wow, thats a lot.
do you research just as a hobby?
i read that you don't make money out of it but do you work at university or something like that or do you have to buy all chemicals & leafs by yourself ?

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 17 2004, 11:13

please delete this post, URL I put here earlier no longer exists.

Geschrieben von: DiViNe May 17 2004, 11:35

QUOTE(Grünerfreund @ Jun 19 2003, 20:42)
FRAGE: Warum übersetzt das keiner in Deutsch würds auch gern lesen !
kann nemlich kein Enlisch mad.gif  würd mich sehr freuen wenn sich nicht nur für mich auch für andere SD-user die kein Enlisch können die Arbeit machen würde das zu übersetzen.....danke

Impressiv!

@Grünerfreund: yaKOS übersetzte es wenner zeit hat....

Geschrieben von: morlock May 18 2004, 13:29

Hi
At first congratulations for this posting -very interesting and detailed.Most people didn`t share their knowledge with other like you.Besides your way of extraction , i found it very interesting that "even LOTS of Salvinorin" gain little effect and with"waxes" more. Maybe it is the wax that causes better absorption,but maybe there are some other components ,which are nessasary to get a strong effect.
Besides Salvorin A ,there are some other potential psychotroph components in S.d. .
I got some similar effekts like S.d. with extracts of Coleus blumeii and S.splendes. Both containing components that are also found in S.d.but no Salvorin A. Would be interesting to know wich component got the crosseffect with Salvorin A.
Besides a good way of absorbing Salvorin A through the skin is Dimethylsulfoxid (DMSO).
Another maybe useful hint: I tryed an extraction wih liquid gas (hypercritical propan or CO 2) and got a result with very little chlorophyll (more light brown Than green) and more a powder than the usual gummy substance after first extraction with solvent.When i tested it ,the effect was weaker than the extact with everything in it.So i thougt that there was less Salvorin in it and this extractions method isn´t good for salvia. So if you got lees effect with pure Salvorin A ,i maybe wrong and it`s a very good method for extraction which is very quick and maybe there are not so many Steps to purify it further.Will test it again when i got enough leaves.
Regards
Morlock

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 18 2004, 21:03

I have tried up to 25 milligrams of pure Salvinorin sublingually with no effect, then I added a few ml of 151 proof drinking Alcohol and still no effect. My assumption is that Salvinorin is not easily sublingually absorbed unless it is completely dissolved into Alcohol, just the powder with Alcohol will not work that way. I tried making a tincture out of pure Salvinorin and found it to be weak. From this I believe that for tincture to be effective you need to add some of the dark waxy compounds back into the Alcohol.

I believe that there are compounds in the leaf which help the Salvinorin to dissolve further into Alcohol than it would without them, I mean, into smaller more diffuse particles which can pass through the fine membranes in your mouth and might even make the Salvinorin somewhat water soluble so that you don't need Alcohol when masticating either leaf, or black wax which contains high levels of Salvinorin.

If your going to try to use it sublingually, purifying Salvinorin too far is counter productive. A chilled Acetone extraction might not have enough of the compounds from the leaf that you need for sublingual use.

You can extract Salvinorin using 99% Isopropanol, but it takes much longer to be efficient enough and won't work chilled. But, if you do a room temperature extraction with 99% IPA (not 70% too much water in that) and then remove only a portion of the wax using pure Naphtha (which you later completely evaporate out) then there might be enough of those compounds remaining so that it might work as a chew depositing the green extract onto something to chew it with.

These are only ideas for a chew, I don't know if it will work well enough that way either as I have not tried it myself.

Go to this link to see how to do the 99% IPA extraction. At the time it was written I believed that you had to powder your leaf for best extraction efficiency when using 99% IPA. I am not so sure about that now because I have since done extractions using IPA on only crushed leaf and had a fairly high efficiency anyway, but I still believe in powdering the leaf when extracting for tincture because you will certainly extract more of the compounds from the leaf which I believe make tincture more effective: http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia_extraction4.shtml

Geschrieben von: puni May 18 2004, 22:01

@ Share: Very Good Work *impressed*!

@alle non-englisch speaker: http://www.google.de/language_tools?hl=de wirft zwar ein etwas verwirrtes Deutsch raus.. aber mit nen bischen Gehirn-Gymnastik müsste man des schon hinbekommen etwas zu verstehen!

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 20 2004, 02:12

RedGreenVines, a member of the entheogen.com forum has reported that depositing pure Salvinorin onto cigarette papers and chewing them has produced reliable effects for him with as little as 7 milligrams.

If true, it appears that chewing is required when trying to use Salvinorin that way. I have not tried it myself. Perhaps the chlorophyll compounds are not needed in a chew, if what he is reporting is correct.

Geschrieben von: puni May 20 2004, 11:15

hmm, perhaps it's possible to place the Crystals in a Jewing Gum smile.gif

Geschrieben von: Sphere May 25 2004, 10:32

Removed, replaced with the following post (see below)...

Geschrieben von: Sphere Jul 17 2004, 09:10

How can I grow Salvinorin crystals or isolate them from extract?

Growing crystals isn't always easy or guaranteed to be produced each time, but here are two ways that I have done it. The first two methods were taught to me, the third method I developed myself:

Methods to Salvinorin Crystallization:

1. Crystalline precipitation in cooling solvents: Dissolve as much near pure salvinorin powder as you can into 151 proof Everclear Ethanol Alcohol (25% water) warmed to 130-140 degrees F. and then wait for it to cool to see if crystals appear (191 proof Ethanol containing only 5% water might work better). Sometimes I have to re-heat a vial of Salvinorin and Ethanol several times to at or just below boiling before they might grow when cooling. If they are going to appear they should be there within an hour or two. Each time I re-heat a vial containing salvinorin dissolved into 151 proof Everclear Alcohol I loose some of the Salvinorin and crystals don't always grow, but they usually show up on the fourth try.

2. Crystalline deposits from solvent evaporation: Dissolving high purity salvinorin into Acetone and allowing the solvent to slowly evaporate at room temperature so that it evaporates very slowly will sometimes produce large crystal formations over a period of a few days to a week, but not always. I have grown crystals by evaporating Acetone fairly quickly in either an oven at 120 degrees f (just an ounce of solvent) or by having a fan blow air across an ounce of salvinorin saturated Acetone, but the crystals usually do not form as large as they do when the evaporation occurs slowly. Also, if you have not removed enough of the chlorophyll waxes the crystals will be hard to see, so try to remove as much of it as you reasonably can if your going to try to grow crystals. The extract should be better than 90-95% free of Chlorophyll impurity if trying to grow crystals otherwise the waxy impurities will hide them from view or stick to the surfaces of the crystalline structures, although if the evaporation container is both small and deep enough like some spice bowls are the Chlorophyll in the solvent usually deposits high up on the sides of the glass as the fluid level evaporates down, by the time the solvent level gets near the bottom of the glass where crystals start to precipitate out of the fluid, most of the Chlorophyll is already out of the solvent.

3. Isolation of crystals from dried extract using Naphtha: Through trial and error extraction research I was surprised to find that the dark waxy extract from a 99% Isopropanol extraction of Salvia divinorum is loaded with small crystals which are formed within the dark waxy Chlorophyll compounds as the solvent evaporates. The following explains how to isolate them out of dried extract but will only work if you have removed as much of the tannin contaminate as you can from the extraction solvent first. The way I do this is by letting the extraction solvent sit undisturbed for 12-24 hours to allow enough time for the tannin to settle out of the fluid as a fine sediment. Once the tannin has settled pour the extraction fluid into another container for evaporation, leaving the tannin behind. Next, the extraction solvent is completely evaporated leaving a dry waxy extract behind. Once free of any hint of extraction solvent and completely dry, pour in a few ounces of pure Naphtha and scrape every bit of the extract into the Naphtha, including all films which may have formed on the sides of the evaporation container. Completely dissolve every bit of the extract into the fluid until all of the clumps are worked out of it. Once your finished working all of the clumps out of the extract it is very important to leave the container of Naphtha alone to sit still for at least a half hour or more to allow enough time for the fine salvinorin particulates stirred up into the Naphtha to settle to the bottom of the container. After the extraction solids have settled you can then pour the Naphtha off of the extract in the bottom and then add more clean Naphtha back to the container to wash the extract through again, waiting a half hour or more each time. Keep washing the extract with Naphtha until it will no longer take on much more color and has become a light tinted translucent green.

After it's obvious that Naphtha has become ineffective removing additional Chlorophyll and unable to take on more color with each additional wash of the extract, pour off all of the Naphtha and completely dry the extract of any hint of Naphtha. Next, pour in an ounce or more of water into your container of extract and stir for a couple of minutes, allow time for the particles to settle to the bottom of the glass and pour the water off, adding more water to the extract and stirring again. If tannin is present in the extract the water will become a yellow to brown tint, but if using a cup or more of water at a time small amounts of tannin being dissolved out of the extract might be so diluted by that large of an amount of water to be unable to see any change of color to know if its being removed, because of this I like to work with only an ounce of water at a time to be able to know when all of the tannin has been completely removed and I can stop washing with water. Once you are done removing tannin with water completely dry the extract of all moisture and place all of the dried extract into a small two inch diameter spice bowl, or even a small shot glass or something of similar size. Next, pour in enough fresh Naphtha into the glass of extract so that there is about a half inch of Naphtha on top of the extract and briskly stir for about a minute with a spoon, then place the glass or bowl into an electric oven set to about 120 degrees F. with its door cracked open a couple of inches and evaporate all of the Naphtha out of the glass. Keep the small container of Naphtha as far away from the heating elements as possible because there is potential for fire. When using this technique by leaving the glass or bowl completely undisturbed in a warm oven while the Naphtha is evaporating off the extract, the heavier salvinorin crystals will all fall to the bottom of the glass while the lighter Chlorophyll impurity forms an upper crust on top. Once all of the Naphtha has been completely evaporated out of your extract you can freeze the glass to cause the top layer of wax to stiffen up enough to be able to easily peel the crust off of the top to expose nothing but golden colored to light green high purity sand-like salvinorin crystals in the bottom of your glass. They might not seem like crystals unless seen under magnification, but they are.

Note: I stumbled upon method three as a complete surprise when I was experimenting with water extractions of leaf for an hour in boiling hot water, then removing the leaf and evaporating the water off all the way down to dry tannin which was then extracted using 99% IPA to recover the salvinorin lost to the water, about 50%. I then removed the tannin from the IPA through settling and after evaporation cleaned the extract with Naphtha as well as I could. After drying the Naphtha cleaned extract I then did a water of the powder just to be sure I had removed all of the tannin contaminates and then after pouring the water off dried the extract. As an added measure, just to make sure the extract was clean enough I added about an ounce of Naphtha to it and stirred the powder into the solvent to see if it would take on any more color, which it didn't, so instead of pouring the Naphtha off I just put it into an oven set to 120 F. to evaporate and was later surprised to find nothing but crystals under a thin crust of Chlorophyll. These crystals could not have formed within the Naphtha itself because salvinorin is insoluble to Naphtha, so the crystals had to have come strait out of the extract itself, having formed when the 99% Isopropanol was being evaporated down to a dry extract. Prior seeing this, I didn't know that the dark Chlorophyll wax deposited upon evaporation of the extraction solvent had crystals in it and as far as I know neither did anyone else. No one seems to be very interested in using this new method yet, but in my opinion it is the easiest and most efficient way of obtaining high purity salvinorin that there is.

Warning! The above method of evaporating any amount of Naphtha in an electric oven could cause a fire or worse. I only post this for informational purposes. It worked for me without problems but it might not work for you without causing a fire!


Pictures from method one:

I grew the crystals in the pictures below by dissolving 900 milligrams of refined salvinorin powder (light green color) into 100 ml of hot 140 degree F. 151 proof Everclear drinking Alcohol (Ethanol) and then set aside for two hours at room temperature each time to see if crystals formed. I had to go through three cycles of heating and cooling before these beautiful crystals appeared. The first three times through only a cloud appeared composed of extremely small crystals not visible to the eye except as a cloud. On the fourth heating I came back two hours later and found these beautiful large crystals had formed. When heating your Alcohol thoroughly shake or mix the salvinorin powder into the Alcohol to dissolve as much as possible. Keep adding salvinorin to the hot fluid until I will no longer dissolve any more and has a few specks of solid salvinorin in the bottom which won't completely dissolve to indicate that you have fully saturated the hot Alcohol. When the Ethanol cools back down to 20 degrees C. sometimes salvinorin crystals will precipitate out of the fluid because the Alcohol cannot hold nearly as much salvinorin when cooled down to room temperature. Just leave it alone and let it cool down to room temperature setting on a shelf, nothing special needed. I have used 99% Isopropanol to grow crystals this way too, but they are always much smaller than when using Ethanol. Acetone won't form crystals at all, Methanol will sometimes form larger crystals than Ethanol, but hasn't been as reliable for me compared to 151 proof Everclear Alcohol which usually takes three or four cycles of re-heating the 100 ml jar before nice crystals form. I have been able to grow crystals in 151 proof Ethanol the same way using a much smaller 30 ml vial of hot Alcohol with as little as 100 mg of Salvinorin producing the same size of crystals.

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These crystals were sent in for analysis and were found to exceed 99.5% purity using HPLC without any other peaks showing.


Pictures from method two

The following two pictures are of some very nice white salvinorin crystals which formed through slow evaporation of Acetone at room temperature. These crystals were produce by adding white salvinorin powder into a small bowl full of Acetone warmed to a temperature of about 130 degrees F. then stirring in as much salvinorin-A powder that could be dissolved into it and setting it aside for a week. When I came back I found these crystals. Sometimes crystals will grow, other times none will form at all. The second picture was taken close up using a zoom stereoscope set to 45X magnification. The light brown colored material at the base of the crystals is tannin sediment that was not removed from the salvinorin powder like I should have done by mixing water into the extract to dissolve any remaining tannin contaminate into it and then pouring the water off to remove it. Of course dried before adding to the hot Acetone.

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Pictures from method three:

The following pictures are salvinorin crystals obtained strait out of dried Chlorophyll waxes from a 99% IPA extraction. The photograph on the left was taken on macro within about three inches of the bottom of a regular drinking glass used to evaporate Naphtha cleaned extract that had about a half inch of clean Naphtha stirred in just before placing the glass into an oven for evaporation. The smooth layer you see is a waxy crust of Chlorophyll waxes which formed on top of the salvinorin crystals below it. I tore a portion of the wax off the top to show the crystals underneath. The photograph on the right was taken with a zoom stereoscope set to 30X magnification.

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If you would like to see over 100 pictures of Salvinorin crystals join this group and go to the photo files: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Salvinorin

Geschrieben von: ElDuderino Jul 17 2004, 09:57

QUOTE(Sphere @ Jul 17 2004, 10:10)
I found out who was anonymously threatening me, an old man in the netherlands who I crossed two years ago over an issue to do with his web sites sales methods for Salvia that I disagreed with. I won't name him in public and I have since taken care of things so that I can continue posting on this subject without fear.


I'm glad you decided to continue sharing your knowledge with us!

Geschrieben von: Sphere Jul 20 2004, 10:31

Thanks!

Geschrieben von: Raving-Pill Sep 22 2004, 20:13

hab mich heute mal dran gesetzt und den text ins deutsche übersetzt
zumindest die ersten beiden verfahren, da mir das dritte zu lang und gefährlich schien wink.gif

werde ins ins andere forum stellen

steht nun im Salvia-Konsum Forum wink.gif

viel spaß beim lesen und evtl. ausprobieren

Geschrieben von: HyperNut Oct 13 2004, 03:01

I have gotten results with powdering up the leaves, mixing them with 151 proof rum, then taking shots. I used a little more then 1/8 ounce for 4 shots, I took 2 shots with orange/pineapple juice and I could feel it within 30 seconds, and it lasted for almost 20 min, but it was a very mild high, the only way I could tell that it wasn't the alcohol was because I was trippin a little, as opposed to being drunk. I have tried eating salvia before and I have found the some people react very well to it, and have a great time for upwards of an hour, but this requires about 15 grams dried leaf per dose. I’m hoping that someone can help me find a new substance that would help the body absorb the salvia better if eaten, because the high is a body high as opposed to a head rush, so I can still think and function normally.

Again, and advice on something that can be consumed that will take less salvia would be great, i buy not grow, and its not too cheap when ordering by the ounce.

Geschrieben von: Sphere Jan 1 2005, 06:07

I can get effects from 151 proof salvia divinorum tincture, but they are rather weak unless I used the staggered method of dosing with three full 1 milliliter doses of tincture held in my mouth for about four minutes, swallowing and then immediately dosing with three more 1 ml dropper fulls of tincture, waiting 4 min again, swallow and then one more time for a total of 9 dropper loads full of tincture taken over a period of about 12 minutes.

The good thing about dosing with tincture this way is that you can continue dosing this way until you are so intoxicated you can't handle the dropper anymore, at this point your still below level 5 and yet able to experience all of the visions you would get smoking salvia, but in a more gentle way than smoking and longer lasting too. Although for me it takes about 12 dropper loads full to achieve that kind of intensity with tincture which quickly uses up a half ounce bottle of tincture, too expensive to do this unless using home made.

Geschrieben von: skazi May 31 2005, 21:06

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perhaps it's possible to place the Crystals in a Jewing Gum


nice idea smile.gif

but the dosage sad.gif

that would be the best possibility to consume salvia (imho).

skazi

Geschrieben von: farin Aug 17 2005, 19:01

nicenice.. are salvinorinchrystals like these sold anywhere?

Geschrieben von: Sphere Jan 4 2006, 20:16

QUOTE(farin @ Aug 17 2005, 19:01)
nicenice.. are salvinorinchrystals like these sold anywhere?
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Crystals, I don't think so but powdered salvinorin can be had if you email the vendors making enhanced leaf, some of them sell it but ususually at high prices. I'm trying to remember the one guy I know for sure who does but can't seem to bring it to mind right now. If I remember I will post, it was his initials and the word ethnobotanicals together.

Edit: MJB Botanicals sells salvinorin powder.

Geschrieben von: Sunshine May 12 2006, 05:23

QUOTE(Dille @ Mar 3 2004, 18:47)
QUOTE(napNR1 @ Mar 3 2004, 17:11)
good txt .. sorry but how can i "konsumate" the cristals ??  dry.gif

i guess if you don't know exactly what you're doing, and that would make the question redundant,
you should not consume salvinorin crystals !
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Crystalls konsist nearly of pure salvanorin. Konsumating pure salvanorin is very dangerous because its so konzentrated that you cant regulate how much you take. Loss of controll and bad trips kann be the konsequenze. Salvanorin crystalls should only be used for science.

I saw pure salvanorin in a headshop just recently, I think it was iamshaman.com

Geschrieben von: sulzbrot Jul 4 2006, 21:48

is the site down?

Geschrieben von: salviii Aug 1 2006, 01:21

no, why are you asking?

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