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Note: This page is a transcription of Pictorial Guide to Caapi Vine Alkaloid Extraction by gibran2[1]. The content
is to remain accurate as such.
Contents
1 Preparation of the Brew
2 Basification of the Brew
3 Remove Soluble Impurities
4 Acidify, Remove Insoluble Impurites
5 Freebase the Alkaloid Salts
6 Remove Excess NaOH, Salts, Etc.
7 Drying the Freebased Alkaloids
8 Final Yield
9 Reference
Add about 500ml water to the vine (enough to cover most of it), and gently boil for 30 minutes, covered. Pour off the
resultant liquid through a strainer into a larger pot. Repeat this step three more times.
Boil the resultant brew (about one liter) and reduce to a volume of about 400ml. Cool to room temperature (if you want, add
ice to speed cooling).
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Add about 200ml water, stir, and allow precipitate to settle again. After 20-30 minutes, the precipitate will have settled, but
the solution may still be somewhat cloudy. Rather than wait 12+ hours for everything to settle, siphon off the liquid and save
it. Repeat this step two more times.
Allow solution to settle. When the resultant yellow liquid is nearly crystal clear, remove and save it. Discard the brown
sediment. This sediment is mostly bits of plant material.
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After most of the precipitate has settled, siphon off the cloudy liquid. Reserve this liquid for an overnight settling.
Add about 200ml water to the precipitate, stir, and allow to settle again. Remove and reserve liquid. Repeat this step one
more time.
Before removing the liquid the third time, check its pH. It should be somewhere between 7 and 8. If the solution is still very
alkaline, you haven’t removed enough NaOH and must do additional rinses. Repeat until pH is between 7 and 8.
A pH meter or pH test papers are highly recommended, but if you don’t have either, then do at least 4 rinses.
Final Yield
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Allow the “rinse” solutions that were collected and put aside to settle for 12 or more hours (in a refrigerator is good). You
will be surprised by how much precipitate collects from what were only slightly cloudy solutions.
Siphon off the liquid and discard. Acidify the precipitate, allow to settle, etc. as described above.
From 64g of black caapi vine, the initial extraction yielded 1.068g alkaloids. The second extraction of the reserved liquids
yielded another 0.258g. The total yield was 1.326g, or 2.07%
Reference
1. ↑ Pictorial Guide to Caapi Vine Alkaloid Extraction [1] (https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?
g=posts&m=192046)
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