A/B Extraction and Isolation of Psilocybin

Oh woops this thread moved too fast for me, nice products posted here! Someone should try the recrystallization technique from the OP, that system should work well.

And additionally, psilocybin will not form a freebase in an a/b. need to wash these products to make sure its not all sugar and urea in there :slight_smile:

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Isolation of Psilocin

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Psilocybin Extraction - 200 proof ethyl alcohol

Procedure:

1.Cool dry the magic mushrooms in a desiccant. The mushrooms need to be dry enough to be pulverized.
2. Grind the mushrooms into powder
3. pour the ground mushrooms into a bottle and seal it tightly with a leak-proof cap.
4. Add enough alcohol to cover the powdered magic mushrooms to make a loose slurry.
5. Shake the bottle and let it sit for 24 hours. Shake it every now and then.
6. After 24 hours, filter the alcohol.
7. Store the extracted alcohol in a separate, fresh bottle.
8. Resoak the extracted ground mushrooms material with fresh alcohol and repeat steps 1 to 6 for the secondary filtration.
9. Combine the alcohol extracts
10. Evaporate the extract until the desired concentration is attained. 1 to 3 grams of dried magic mushrooms should produce 1cc of the solution.

The concentrated magic mushroom extract should have a pungent aroma. Store it in a small screw cap bottle or vial and keep in the freezer. Because of the small amount of alcohol remaining, it will still remain liquid even in freezing temperature.

Psilocybin Crystallization

Crystallizing pure psilocybin is a good preservation technique and can also help purify the stored psilocybin. This procedure picks up from the last step of the previous method.

Procedure:

  1. Add a few drops of hydrochloric acid to achieve pH 3.0.
  2. Evaporate down to 1/10 of the original volume.
  3. Add a nonpolar solvent, mix slowly.
  4. Let it stand for a couple of hours.
  5. The solvent will float on top of the extract and can be removed by syringe or by freezing the water and pouring off the solvent.
  6. Remove the rest by slowly adding acetone to the extract. Let it stand.
  7. Two layers will eventually form. On the bottom is a dark layer while a yellowish to greenish layer will appear on top. Remove the top layer.
  8. Add new acetone. Mix slowly and remove the acetone once more.
  9. Collect all the dark, sticky residue and let it dry. Large transparent crystals will start to form. The slower the evaporation, the bigger the crystals.
  10. Weigh the crystals to determine their potency.
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Apparently the above method has been debunked if anyone cares to confirm??

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Can confirm step 9 sound like bullshit.

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Theoretically could dissolve in solvent and crystallize tho no?

Yes, I’ve already posted 2 working teks for crystallization.

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I saw that. Have you had good results with that tek? Are the crystals actually isolated psilocybin??

Well if your procedure includes an acid in any step you’ll actually be dealing with psilocin, not psilocybin. But yes you can isolate crystals.

Thing with musbrooms tho is they also naturally contain beta carbolines as well as other maoi inhibitors which may or may not affect your ability to grow pretty crystals because they will also be co extracted.

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Acidty + heat (above 60-70c) make the transformation faster, isn t it ?

Also adding that psilocin (and likely psilocibin) are quite sensitive to oxidation, which seems to lead to non reversible di- or even trimerisation. This is not an easy endeavour.

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Removal of water from the dilute acetic acid solution used for intial extraction using 3a mol sieve is a good starting point. All solvents need to be evaporated using vacuum alone.

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Depending on available gears, I would advise N2 blowing with good stiring in hot bath as an alternative concentration step.

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I got a question sir. Regarding the initial methanol extraction to LLE, will a LLE remove all the unwanted compounds in this SOP like waxes, crap, etc.

And still leave a full spectrum profile of psilosin, psiclosibin, norbaeocystin, baeocystin, and the many other actives/goodies?

Or is there specific solvents? Any good options? Thoughts everyone?

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The a simple LLE will not remove all the unwanted compounds that are picked up during extraction with methanol. Waxes aren’t a concern in this instance, im sure at least some lipids are contained in the tissues but they wont be heavy waxes. A lot of the unwanted shit you’ll extract with methanol would be the polysaccharide gums, urea, ergosterol, baeocystin, and norbaesocystin.

Extracting with methanol will give you a full spectrum concentrate of the mushroom you extracted from. It will not give you pure psilocybin or psilocin.

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Sorry im a noob but why is baeocystin not wanted? Dont the things you listed makeup the full spectrum “enterauge effect”?

If its just psilocynin/psilocin wont that be a one dimensional high?

So i guess my question is with a good methanol extraction is cleanup neccessary and is LLE (what solvent?) the best or can I dewax like canna?

Thanks scoobs you the man. hope your weekends going well…

Lets get everyone hiiiighhh :+1:

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You can do a few things to clean up an extract, you just have to take into account what it was extracted with to begin with.

What @chempistry suggested is a piece of a procedure in an article i was just reading a week ago. Ultrasonic extraction with methanol is very efficient in comparison to soaking in acetic acid (2-3 mins in ultrasonic extraction vs 12 hour soak.)

So you could ensure you have all the actives by extractin with methanol, then evaporate the methanol and add vinegar to dissolve what you’ve extracted. Pour cold acetone into this mixture and watch crystals preciptate and fall to the bottom of the solution.

I haven’t tried this method yet but I can post the paper where I read it when I find it in my phone. In that paper they stated that norbaeocystin, norpsilocin, psilocybin, baeocystin, and arugenascin can all be precipitated from a crude solution of acetic acid with the addition of acetone.

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I think most people attribute the bad trip aspect to baeocystin. I dont know that its true, but I’ve also read that arugenascin makes psilocin/cybin a smoother experience.

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With just an HPLC and a few standards, you could select varieties properly, I’ve been trying to keep an ear to the ground for compounds that are negative-impact.

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What other compounds have you found to have a negative impact?

The beta carbolines and the polysaccharides contribute to that mushroom flavor/smell so it would be desirable to remove those. Not sure how tho, and its possible the polysaccharides are different across different species of mushroom.

After reading up on how psilocin gets metabolized, its effectiveness doesn’t depend on the presence of an MAOI because psilocin is apparently pretty resistant to the same enzyme responsible for destroying DMT in your body. So the beta carbolines can probably go too, but they will contribute to the effect somewhat and I also don’t know how to remove them.

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