This is an extraction posted by Sphere from over at the spirit plants salvia forum (old, from my archives though...I prefer the hive, it's much cooler
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*********THE SALVIA DIVINORUM QUICK COLD EXTRACTION METHOD *********
Disclaimer: I offer this for informational purposes only! I am not a chemist, I am not a medical doctor. Seek competent professional advice. Do not rely upon my judgment! If anyone wants to actually do this, they do it at their own risk. I will not be held for responsible for damages from either the use or misuse of this information. I do not know how safe, or unsafe Salvia Divinorum extracts are when taken into the human body. I do not recommend using Salvinorin or extracts made from Salvia Divinorum, this must be an informed personal decision. This post does not contain enough information to make an informed choice.
W A R N I N G
Inform yourself of the potential dangers of this extract or materials which are used to make this extract. I have found the following web site as an excellent place to begin your search:
http://www.sagewisdom.org/caution.html
- DON'T EVEN *CONSIDER* USING THE STRAIT EXTRACT FOR ANYTHING.
ACETONE IS AS FLAMMABLE AS GASOLINE! *NO OPEN FLAME!* *NO STATIC SPARKS!* *NO UNSEALED SPARKY COMMUTATOR TYPE OF ELECTRIC FANS!* *DON'T EVAPORATE IT IN CLOSED AREAS!* *SEEK PROFESSIONAL ADVICE*
You will need:
1000 ml of Technical or Reagent Grade Acetone chilled to at least 25 degrees F.
1 large stainless-steel, glass, or ceramic bowl.
100 grams of whole Salvia Divinorum leaf.
When using this method without crushing your leaf up, or flattening it down into the bowl, you will probably need about 10 ml of Acetone per gram of leaf. You may be able to use half has much solvent or less if it is crushed up enough. Also, with this process you can use as much leaf as you want, unlike other quick extraction processes, it doesn't matter.
1. Take 85 grams of whole dry leaf and crush it into small pieces but DO NOT POWDER IT or this process will not work. You just don't want to have your leaf anywhere near powdered. Crushing it also reduces the amount of solvent needed.
2. Now put the leaf and the bowl that you intend on using for the Acetone soak (Glass, ceramic or stainless steel, not plastic.) in the refrigerator for a day. The bowl and the leaf just need to cool down to at least fourty degrees F. but closer to 25 degrees would be better because the solvent will warm up as your stirring the leaf in. I have started out with Acetone as cold as 15 degrees and had it warm up to nearly 40 degrees by the time I was done extracting from the leaf.
3. Once the bowl of leaf is thoroughly cooled, pour in the whole 1000 ml of cold 25 degree F. Acetone into the bowl, stir all of the crushed leaf around for about five to six minutes. A second and third extraction of the leaf for three minutes each using more chilled Acetone can help increase the efficiency resulting in more Salvinorin being extracted but also increases the amount of waxes in your extract. If you do this you might want to keep the solvent separate from the last two re-extractions and evaporate it separately to see how much black wax came over.
4. Pour the Acetone out into another container. Now add 15 grams of finely crushed Salvia leaf to the Acetone extract and let it evaporate completely down, be sure to stir it up really well so that it evenly mixes as the volume of Acetone evaporates down to just wet leaf. There can be a large amount of Salvinorin as residue on the sides of the bowl, as it evaporates down and dries, leaving behind a green film. This green film can have a very high purity of Salvinorin, so treat it with much caution.
The above process will make 15 grams of 5X enhanced Salvia Divinorum leaf. Why 5X, and not 8X or more because we used 100g to make 15g ? Although this process is very efficient compared to other extraction methods, is it not 100% efficient. There is nothing to prevent you from making 8X leaf by simply changing the amount of leaf extracted from and added to, such as extracting from 90 grams and adding it back to 10 grams. However, due to the reduced waxes when using this process, strongly enhanced leaf might be too easy to smoke and cause someone to get too much Salvinorin. Keeping the strength of your enhanced leaf to no more than 6X is a good self regulator for most people, because, unless your accustomed to smoking enhanced Salvia leaf, trying to smoke more than 200 mg of enhanced leaf is difficult when at this concentration. 200 mg of 5X has been considered the upper limit for experienced users of enhanced leaf, but few want to go that far. I should also point out that having someone with you when smoke enhanced leaf is highly recommended (as long as they aren't smoking it too), especially if you are inexperienced or when attempting large amounts of 5X or higher enhanced leaf. Although the actual Salvia-Space experience usually last just a few minutes, operating machinery or being in public places while under the influence of this substance are taboo, anyone with half a lick of sense (or less) knows this. Although the experience is short lived, the effects to your coordination can last much longer. Never operate machinery or play with sharp knives for at least three hours after using Salvia Divinorum or enhanced leaf and or tincture (This is a bit of a stretch, but you never know about some people). Longer if you are particularly sensitive to the effects.
Notes:
Do not soak your leaf longer than necessary. If you soak your leaf longer than six minutes, you will begin to get too much black wax making it difficult to smoke. You can increase the efficiency by increasing either the temperature of the solvent or the amount of time that the leaf is soaked but an increase of either temperature or time will also increase the amount of chlorophyll extracted. Due to this, you must limit the amount of time the leaf is being soaked to no more than six minutes in the 25 to 40 degree F. Acetone. Be sure to stir the leaf the whole time it is in the solvent! Lower extraction temperatures can be used but will begin to loose the normal 80%+ efficiency if you go very far below 20 degrees F. However, the lower the temperature of the Acetone, the less chlorophyll and waxes will be extracted. If you dry the leaf and try another quick extraction with cold Acetone, it won't work out nearly as well. Something has changed in the leaf making it impossible to do another quick cold Acetone without getting loads of black wax in your extract making your enhanced leaf difficult to smoke. REMEMBER to save your leaf! After having done a quick cold Acetone extraction with crushed leaf, there will still be a portion of the Salvinorin left in the leaf. To get the remaining Salvinorin out, dry the leaf and then powder it using a Mr. Coffee grinder and do another extraction for 10 minutes using chilled 20 degree F. Acetone. Be be sure to stir it the whole time. This will produce a waxy extract but it should be good for adding to leaf or for making a tincture with if you are working with enough leaf to make it worth your while. Be very careful not to touch your face if you have touched the wet leaf or extract with your bare fingers (Which I find impossible to avoid when working with it.) I have found that this stuff is very hard on your skin, the extract or wet leaf will cause sensitive areas of your skin, such as your face, to get really puffed up and then wrinkle and dry so bad as to cause pealing. This may last a week or more! Thoroughly wash your hands with Acetone when you are done and don't touch your face at any time during the handling of this wet leaf, or Acetone extract. Caution: Do not soak leaf in Acetone when exposed to light for more than an hour. Light will begin to decompose Salvinorin in a few hours while in Acetone. Alcohol is far less a problem when exposed to light, but it has been proven to me that Acetone will begin to decompose Salvinorin quite quickly when at room temperature and exposed to light.
How to extract and clean into a relatively high purity Salvinorin:
Pure Salvinorin is far too strong to use as is. It is very difficult and tricky to properly vaporize. It requires extremely accurate measurement equipment such as an analytical balance to measure out a somewhat strong dose which is only one milligram, one thousandths of a gram. Trying to smoke it in a pure form will not add anything to an experience, it is no better, in fact, lower doses are preferrable as strong doses will only serve to leave you with no recall of what happened. Trying to dose with Salvinorin anywhere near pure will only lead to problems, as it has for the experienced. You cannot eye the size of a one milligram dose of Salvinorin and be able to repeat it with accuracy. Do not risk your own welfare or the welfare of others playing around with the pure substance. I cannot advise strongly enough against this. Please look at this web site to see what I am talking about:
http://www.sagewisdom.org/caution.html
-The almost pure Salvinorin (Above 90%) which can be obtained through the following process can be used to enhanced leaf (or other materials) by concentrating the Salvinorin to much higher levels to make tinctures or to make enhanced leaf or other Salvinorin products. There is a danger in putting too much Salvinorin back into leaf because without the black wax it is too easy to smoke large amounts of the leaf. With normal 5X leaf, it is difficult to smoke too much of it because of all of the smoke it produces from the chlorophyll and waxes being burned along with the Salvinorin. This is why responsible individuals such as Daniel Siebert DO NOT CONCENTRATE the amount of Salvinorin in their enhanced leaf to beyond 6X to reduce the possibility that someone will cause problems for both themselves, and him. If your making your own enhanced leaf, then you only have yourself to blame if your not careful about what your doing. Common practice is to add no more than 12.5 mg of Salvinorin back to a gram of normal leaf to give a concentration of no more than 15 mg per gram. Tinctures should have no more than 1.3 to 1.4 mg of Salvinorin per ml of fluid or it will not stay dissolved in Alcohol. The best Alcohol to use for tinctures is 191 proof Everclear as it is about 95% Alcohol with only 5% water. Salvinorin does not dissolve very well in 151 proof Alcohol which is 25% water. Impure Salvinorin will dissolve in 151 proof Alcohol without much problem, but pure Salvinorin is difficult to dissolve when there is that much water present.
If you want to get down to pure Salvinorin to enhance leaf or for use in a tincture, here is how to do it. To obtain almost pure Salvinorin all one needs to do is extract from the leaf with a colder temperature Acetone, 20 degrees F. or a little lower will do just fine without much loss of efficiency. You can use crushed leaf but don't use powdered for this process as it tends to extract out too much wax when powdered. You can try, but I have never had good results with powdered leaf. With very cold Acetone almost all of the waxes and chlorophyll's are left behind and remain in the leaf, but you must not let the leaf stay in the solvent for too long. Limit the soaking to five minutes or less, but not much less than three minutes or the efficiency will begin to drop off. Be sure to stir the leaf the whole time! If you intended on getting down to high purity Salvinorin, the following step is very important. Once you are finished doing a 20 degree F. extraction of crushed leaf (after pouring the Acetone off the leaf), let the Acetone sit for an hour or more to allow a brown sediment like material to fall out of the Acetone. This sediment is not Salvinorin but will be extracted along with it. You must separate this material from the lightly colored Acetone through either a gravity separation by letting it sit until it all falls out, or through filtering of the Acetone (I recommend several hours for a gravity separation). The amount of sediment will be far greater than the amount of Salvinorin extracted and because of this will greatly increase the purity of the extraction if removed. Once the brown material is removed from the Acetone by carefully pouring the solvent out of the bowl that contains the sediment (leaving it behind) the Acetone is then poured into a evaporation dish or bowl. After the solvent has been completely evaporated off, you will find a high purity extract in the bottom of your container. This extract may or may not consist of crystals. The extract may be in the form of a crusty green or somewhat tacky green material.