My suggestion is to pulverize the plant material first and a muratic acid extraction/filtration first which will extract all the alkaloids [most anyway} and the water soluble salts and minerals into the water. At this point do a non-polar wash, and throw away the non-polar. Then do a tradional A/B extraction if you wish to further concentrate or isolate the materails
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