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Originally Posted by fastfred  Don't use methanol. The biggest loss of the whole process is evaporation to dryness, which you don't have to do with acetic acid or ethanol. Evaporating to dryness directly exposes the actives to oxidation via O2. |
Evaporating under reduced pressure would do the job.(if one wants the unstable psilocin too) Much less heat needed.
Keep in mind: Psilocybin ist "stable". You can get crystals from
boiling water.
Mushrooms can be stored "open air" for a long time and are still active.
For me the
interesting and here relevant part in the text from J. Gartz is:
The problem with wet alcohol is that the enzymes which dephosphorylise Psilocybin
to the instable Psilocin are also extracted from the biomass. This also occures with
acetic acid but to a smaller amount and does not occure at all with pure
methanol (ethanol?).
sorry for a little bit "off topic"
