Extraction of mimosa hostilis, steam or a/b?

[place]

Hi.

Is it posseble to use steam distillation to extract DMT from mimosa hostilis rootbark? And is it easiere than a/b?

TIA.   

[Bandil]

Steam distillation is unfortunately a no-go for tryptamines. They are not volatile enough to pass over with the steam.

A/B is the way to go here. You will however not get a pure crystalline compound out of it. More "goo" really, but the goo works as advertised never the less  

Regards
Bandil

[jsorex]

Not true. There are purification methods that bring out the crystal extract. Check out dmt.lycaeum.org

[Aurelius]

Why do people avoid column chromatography for tryptamines?  you don't even have that much material.  And you'd get a pure product.  Is there oxidation or rearrangement going on that I'm unaware of?

[place]

A/B is the way to go here.

What are normal yield? I did a a/b on 50g Mimosa, the final product was 40mg red clumpy powder