I tried posting a message early this morning before I went to bed, but I guess I screwed up. It was such a long, in-depth report, too, from what I can remember. Maybe it is for the best that it's been lost to the ages.LOL Anyway, did an extraction of MHRB from 4oz of powder and got ~.5g from that, and allowing for a bit of solvent spillage while I ran the heptane through coffee filters to do new pulls, and a couple of pulls yet to come from a couple of jars I have steeping in solvent, I'm fairly certain the total amount of the extraction will be within accepted parameters. You'll notice heptane was used. It was easier to go to an art store and pick up some Bestine rubber cement solvent because as some have found out, Naphtha is now illegal in California because of air pollution regulations. I found out for certain when an out-of-state vendor called me to let me know they could not fill my order for a quart of VM and P naphtha because of that. Read that heptane was acceptable for the tek used, which was Q21's A/B tek, so the adventure began.
Divided up the 4oz(113g) of MHRB between two 24 oz jars left over from pickles and pasta sauce and this worked out well. Set them in hot water for the first two pulls I did and stirred away at the heptane-soaked goo. First pull, after a few hours in the freezer was still clear when I decided to dry it and do a scrape. Filtered the heptane through a coffee filter, which caught 18mg of fluffy white/off-white crystals. After the first scrape of the small white crystals from the bottom and sides of the baking pan, did another pull using a hot water bath and put it in the freezer to precipitate.
The 18mg from the filter was used for the first trial. Unfortunately, the test subject screwed up and a large cloud of acrid smoke ensued and a lot of coughing. Result was maybe a couple of minutes of feeling tingles in the arms. Another test was done the next day with another subject, with slightly more successful results, as the subject reported having some pleasnat physical effects smoking from an oil pipe, but they didn't get all of the dose in and most was left melted in the pipe. In the meantime, a couple more pulls done at room temperature were done. Results from pulls were visibly less as the process went on. Hoping that the next pull with another hot water bath during stirring will bring up most of whatever is left in the goo, which truly does stink if you leave the jar opened too long. LOL
Anyway, on to the exciting bit. Another potential test subject chickened out last night when offered a 25mg dose, so experimenter took on the task once again. The white/off-white crystals were placed in the bowl of a bong between layers of medical-grade cannabis and subject proceeded to smoke away. There was some coughing(not unusual for subject when smoking cannabis) and that plastic stink, but the smoke wasn't as harsh after running through the bong and subject was able to keep in half the dose long enough to get some effects. The set and setting weren't the best, since it was in a crowd with the lights on, but wasn't expecting a full-on breakthrough experience, anyway.
Effects came on gradually over a few minutes. Am sure that it wasn't just the herb smoked because the subject could see auras around objects, light color and movement effects, and this is not normally part of the experience when smoking herb. When eyes were closed, could see rhinestone-y colored kaleidoscopic images. Became a bit goofy and felt very relaxed and happy. Even though subject was obviously under the influence of the substance, they could understand what was going on and just let it flow as long as it lasted. It was as if you knew what was going on and were aware, but didn't care so much about that as the experience. Very pleasant high. Will be doing more experimenting soon with a clean, fresh oil pipe. Subjects will be experienced with this delivery method, so the observer will be able to get a better idea about how effective a DMT-only dose is. Have seen oil-pipe jury-rigged bongs that are pretty effective, so that might be something else to try at some point, as at this time the cash isn't available to try vaporizers. Hopefully there is going to still be something good to pull out of what I have left with some more hot water baths.
I was reading about kratom. Sounds very interesting and it sounds like Q21's tek could be used to crystallize some base from it. Has anyone tried this? seems like it would be worth trying. Also, if a base can be extracted, has anyone tried it via insufflation through a straw? I know that people have smoked it, so I'm sure that if a base is made, that method would work. At any rate, I'm planning to continue my research on that and if anyone can let me know what ideas they have, I'd appreciate it. Overall, it's been a good experience so far and I feel very comfortable with the tek used.