Well go for it if you want. I'm still skeptical. And there are so many better ways to take it anyway, why bother? Also wouldn't the tea taste pretty terrible?

Be prepared to drink a few tens of gallons of tea.. Salvinorin has a very low solubility in water.. there are some other compounds in the leaves that do allow a little of it to dissolve in water (pure Salv-A wouldn't dissolve at all), but it's solubility is still low. You would probably leave...

Hah. Somebody beat us to it. Very interesting information. I'm surprised the stuff lasts such a short time.. In animal trials they were shown to last many times longer than Salv-A. Maybe it has to do with the route of administration? Can't wait to see if/when they test some other analogues...

That's exactly what some friends of mine said about it. I haven't experienced that myself, but it seems to be common.

Dude... you're still misunderstanding me... did you try googleing "methoxymethyl salvinorin"? You will see many references just on the first google page... Do you even know what the structures look like? If you did, you would understand what I'm saying.. See this picture...

:P You misunderstand. I was talking about synthetic analogues. Mainly at the 2 carbon, replacing the acetate group with other things. They have tried many different analogues, most are less potent than Salv-A, but a few are quite a bit more so. One such example is methoxymethyl salvinorin. And...

:D Glad somebody likes the idea. I read several papers that detailed the synthesis, but I don't have them, I'll have to find them again. If I remember correctly the first step is to hydrolyze off the acetate group of the salv-A to produce salvinorin-B. Not a hard step. The second step is to...

How about any of the other DOX compounds? Anyone have experience with them? I would be interested to hear about it.

Better yet, there are analogues of salv-A that are much more potent and long lasting. They are also orally active, so they could be pilled. They have not been studied long, so as far as I know no human has tried them (and documented it). It is certainly possible that they could cause a very...

It seems to me that there wouldn't be much point in making extracts much higher the 30 or 40x... I mean, if you're going to use 100x that has 25% salv-A in it, why even bother putting the leaf material in at all? I wonder if it might be easier to make a concentrated salv-A solution in acetone...

I'm currently in the process of extracting 80g of dried leaf. The bag was is huge because the stuff is so light! I should have the finished product in a couple days if all goes well. The extraction is not too hard, there's lots of literature out there about it. 900x! :P Unfortunately that's...

I don't get the big deal about the "100x" stuff. As long as you measure the amount correctly, you'll get the same dose whether it's 10x or 100x, although I seriously doubt any commercially available extract is actually near 100x. BTW, theoretically 100x extract would consist of 25%...

I have seen several studies where researchers (using university equipment) tested a bunch of different commercially bought "standardized" salvia extracts. They found that every single one of them has considerably lower than the stated salvinorin content. Many where far lower than advertized...