| Psilocybin is fairly stable, but the problem is that a lot of it will get converted to psilocin during extraction. The psilocin is then quickly oxidized.
The obvious fix is to add an antioxidant like vitamin C. It works great and totally eliminates the bluing reaction.
TV, I bet the crystals that crash out are more proteins (bio-gunk) than sugars. I would think that sugars would remain fairly well dissolved. One thing I've thought would be a good experiment would be to add some water to your aqueous ethanol. A bunch of bio-gunk will crash out (precipitate). Then you could add some more ethanol and filter. That should precipitate the bio-gunk, which then usually coagulates and won't redissolve. Adding more alcohol should redissolve any actives that co-precipitated. That should purify the product quite a bit by getting rid of a lot of the bio-gunk.
-FF |