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Taiwanese plant species and their DMT content through extraction
For legal reason, all plant products are sent to another person outside of Taiwan to conduct all extractions. Keep in mind that aside from TLC to identify the extractions as DMT, no other chromatography methods were used to figure out quantity, so it can be assumed that all figures are slightly lower than reality due to extractions not being 100% effective. Though steps are taken by the people doing the extractions to be as thorough and accurate as possible, these are not done in a laboratory and should be read as experimentation and not scientific fact. This page is simply a page of observation and meant more to raise interest and study rather than define anything.
Variables to consider
Material of different species, or batches, may contain different amounts of water. It is difficult to dry anything to 0% water, and it is more likely that even "dry" material is still around 5-10% water. This means it may look dry but isn’t in fact truly dry. If experiment 1 that uses 50g of Acacia confusa bark at 5% water content and experiment 2 with Mimosa tenuiflora at 10% water content will change the end percent. the difference of 5% and 10% water content on 50 gram samples is 2.5 grams of material which can make the ratio of dry material to DMT content slightly variable. True experimentation take steps to ensure all materials are dried to a consistent level.
Harvest times of year, month and even day can drastically change the chemistry of certain parts. It is currently not known much about this in regards to various species and DMT content, but should be at least considered as possible.
Chemicals used during extraction, temperatures, light levels, timing etc all can play a role, and will likely cause slight differences in what we may wish to think are identical procedures. Nothing is going to be exactly the same, we should realize this and accept there will be slight variation.
See bottom of page for extraction methods.
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Part Tested |
Quantitymaterial/extractions |
Method |
Quantity |
Acacia confusa Merr. Wild, mature trees. The outer dead bark is scraped off prior to drying. |
Trunk bark Root Bark Twig Bark Leaves |
50g / 17 |
0.25g-0.8g (0.5-1.6%) | |
Notes All of the materials from these experiments are taken from the same general area, within 10 square kilometers. Pingtung, Taiwan at about 600-1000m elevation. Temps here reach 5-7c at the lowest and go up to 38c. Winters are severely dry until about March-April when heavy rain season lasts until September-October. Materials are collected at the same times in comparative studies from the same tree. All material is collected between 11am and 7pm, no notes are taken on exact times of specific batches, at least not for now. All collected in March and April, 2011. | ||||
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Plants from southern Taiwan growing in soil, not river/sand plants. |
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Cultivated plants in southern Taiwan. First experiemnts, plants are 3 years old. |
Trunk bark Root Bark Twig Bark Leaves |
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Extraction methods
1. Naptha freeze percipitation
Materials: Dried shredded plant material (50g).
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