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The Salvia divinorum FAQ
before, filter and squeeze the leaves dry, saving the solvent squeezed out. Pool all the
solvent that has been in contact with the leaf material. Discard the spent leaves. Place
the solvent in a broad, shallow container such as a pan or baking sheet. The container
should be made of glass, stainless steel or Teflon lined steel. Cover with a wire strainer
or screen and allow to evaporate out of doors. If this is impractical evaporation can be
done indoors next to an exhaust fan or under a fume hood (open windows to insure
good ventilation). Be careful though if the exhaust fan motor emits electrical sparks it
may ignite the vapors. If doing indoor evaporation choose a solvent low in toxicity.
When little solvent is left, add portion B of the leaves. Stir with a wooden utensil.
Spread out thinly and allow to continue to air dry. The leaves will absorb the residual
liquid. Allow to air dry thoroughly until free of all solvent odor and if possible until dry
to the touch. Break up any clumps. Finally, the extract should be spread out thinly on
an oven proof plate and placed in a 150 to 170 degree F oven for an hour. Exposure to
this temperature will not destroy salvinorin but should remove any residual traces of
solvent. The oven door should be cracked open an inch during this final 'desolventing'.
Store in a sealed jar. Test by opening the jar after a day and smelling. If a solvent odor
is present there is still residual solvent in the material and further drying is required
prior to use.
You now have your smoking mixture. This is a 6X enhancement i.e. theoretically the
leaf material is now 6 times as strong as unenhanced leaf material, so smoke it with
great care, and have a sitter present. This stuff can be very strong.
Q. I don’t want to chew quid or to smoke, how can a soft extract for sublingual use be
made?
A. Strong preparations have been made using ethanol and using 91% isopropyl alcohol.
Please note there have been no studies of the safety of sublingual soft extract. It is
theoretically possible that the material might contain some harmful substance, either
extracted from the plant or produced by reaction with solvent or in the oven heating
phase of the preparation. Users have not reported side-effects from sublingual softextract
but long term dangers (if any) are unknown. Since this material is waxy, it
might not be a good idea to smoke it because one might be inhaling wax vapors into
ones lungs. Various solvents can be used to make a soft extract. Extracts made using
both ethanol and 91% isopropyl alcohol have proven effective.
The following recipe worked to prepare an isopropyl alcohol soft extract. The final
product was a greenish black waxy substance about the consistency of beeswax. It
looked like tar but had a tealike aroma and slightly bitter taste. It proved highly
effective sublingually in a dose of 1/4 tsp.
1. Grind up a large amount of dried Salvia leaves. Grind them finely. You need not
weigh the starting material. The more leaf material you start with the more soft extract
you will get. So use as much as you can spare.
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