Amateur Salvia divinorum extraction and refinement articles. I am not a chemist or a professional in botany but have worked many hundreds of hours to find and hone simple methods for extracting and refining salvinorin without the need for special equipment and have placed everything I have learned over the years here. These methods were worked out in a place and time where and when legal to do so. Please observe all local laws.
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Date(s): February 1, 2006. Album by Orb. 1 - 11 of 11 Total.
enlarge 135KB, 612x792 1 Salvia divinorum info and users guide.pdf
enlarge 212KB, 612x792 2 Salvia divinorum extraction FAQ.pdf General Salvia divinorum extraction guide and FAQ. Explains how I extract salvinorin from Salvia divinorum leaf to make my own enhanced leaf using fairly simple methods while providing many insights to the extraction process.
This article is occasionally being edited for clarity and additional information. Last update Jan 1, 2007.
enlarge 43KB, 612x792 3 Salvia divinorum Tincture.pdf How to make homemade Salvia divinorum tincture costing many hundreds of dollars if purchased from a regular vendor using only 350 grams of dried leaf and 750 ml of high proof drinking alcohol.
enlarge 21KB, 612x792 4 Simple Chilled Acetone.pdf Strait to the facts chilled acetone extraction tech. How to extract and refine salvinorin using just acetone and 99% isopropyl with a minimum amount of verbage and no photos.
This method does not use naphtha and goes strait to the use of isopropyl.
enlarge 2.14MB, 612x792 5 Chilled acetone extraction.pdf This extraction method reduces the amount of waxy compounds extracted from the leaf yielding a much purer extract. Simple refinement methods are explained using naphtha and 99% isopropanol to dilute and if desired completely remove waxy lipids from the extract at increasing cost to yield for higher purities. Over 50 photographs showing the process of extracting leaf and refining the extract.
Last edit 02 April, 2006.
enlarge 1.25MB, 612x792 6 Salvinorin Infused Paper and Tincture.pdf This article explains how to extract Salvia leaf using zero degree F. chilled acetone to create salvinorin infused smoking papers. 57 photo's, additional pictures being added as I produce them or are offered for inclusion.
Undergoing edits from time to time to improve clarity. Added instructions for making tincture. Last update edit 18 Aug 2006. Added Q and A addendum January 1, 2007.
enlarge 496KB, 612x792 7 Methods to crystalline salvinorin.pdf This article explains three different methods which can be used to obtain crystalline salvinorin.
1. Evaporation. 2. Hot Alcohol. 3. Isolation from extract.
Last update January 1, 2007. Added text. I believe I found the problem with method three which caused some individuals to be unable to reproduce it, edited into text to boil or cook the leaf prior to extraction when desiring to isolate the crystals from the black wax extract itself.
enlarge 487KB, 612x792 8 Growing salvinorin crystals.pdf Simple how to guide for extracting Salvia divinorum leaf and refining the extract to grow salvinorin crystals.
Edit: Added more text and photos 21 April 2006
enlarge 45KB, 612x792 9 Solvents for salvinorin.pdf Concerns and work arounds in the use of off the shelf extraction solvents. Last update 26 July 2006
enlarge 77KB, 128x96 Download 3GP 10 Infusing Tobacco Rolling Papers - Quicktime video CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW
Submitted by redgreenvines showing how to evenly disperse salvinorin containing acetone onto cigarette papers.
The dark grid you see is a strand of thread wound around a shallow metalic box with the papers to be infused placed on top of the thread and wound around again over the papers to hold them in place.
enlarge 50KB, 612x792 11 MHRB extraction without A to B.doc The Lazy Mans Guide to Extracting MHRB. The first process without A-B as a de-fating cycle and which keeps the plant material in the basified solution during the entire extraction.
