How to extract DMT from mimosa hostilis

Forget the naphta and methanol based extractions you'll find on Erowid; they're out of date. Here is a much easier way to extract DMT from mimosa hostilis and similar plants. (It also works for extracting alkaloids from other plants, like mescaline from peyote.) The cool thing is that this uses only food-safe chemicals: namely edible lime, vinegar and limonene (essence of lemon). It was posted on the DMT-Nexus by 69Ron. Hats off to 69Ron!

1. Mix 100g of mimosa rootbark with 25g slaked lime
2. Add about 300ml water, enough water to make it wet, but not watery. Tap water is perfectly fine. Stir together for 5 minutes
3. Add 300ml of limonene. Mix well. Let sit for a few hours.
4. Put it in a coffee press to get rid of the solids
5. Add 25ml of vinegar to the liquid. Mix thoroughly.
6. Put it in a plastic bottle. The vinegar will go to the bottom. Pierce the bottle so that the limonene at the top purs off. Alternatively, buy a glass gravy seperator and seperate them that way. Don't throw out the limonene.
7. Evaporate the vinegar to leave slightly impure DMT crystals.
8. With the leftover limonene, repeat steps 5-7 two more times
9. Repeat steps 3-8 two or three times. You will be left with slightly impure DMT crystals, ready for smoking.

• You can get slaked lime cheaply here.
• You can get limonene cheaply here.
• And you can get mimosa hostilis cheaply here.
  

Is mimosa hostilis active without a MAOi?

When DMT is swallowed, it is destroyed in the stomach by an enzyme called monoamine oxidase. In order to bypass this, DMT may be taken orally with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (a MAOi). Ayahuasca is simply this orally-activate DMT-MAOi combo. So far so good.

Of course, the active ingredient in mimosa hostilis is DMT. So if we take mimosa hostilis orally without anything else, it won't have any effect, right? Wrong! Many people have reported that mimosa hostilis alone is orally active. Indeed, the traditional way of taking it is to just squeeze the roots in cold water for 15 minutes and drink the water - no MAOi involved.

What's going on here? How is a DMT-containing plant orally active? There are several theories. It is not thought that mimosa hostilis contains any MAOis itself, but it may contain chemicals that have a higher affinity for monoamine oxidase than DMT does, so they sorta mop up all the monoamine oxidase. Another theory is that mimosa hostilis contains chemicals that include DMT, bound within larger structures. The monoamine oxidasebreaks down these large chemicals, leaving DMT, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream.

What is Jungle Spice?

Extract the alkaloids from mimosa hostilis root bark, pull away the DMT, and you are left with a mysterious substance known in the community as 'Jungle Spice'. Jungle Spice is described as resembling a piece of red crayon and it appears to have some psychoactive properties.

We can be sure that Jungle Spice is no one alkaloid, but and impure mixture of several alkaloids found in mimosa hostilis. Apart from DMT, mimosa hostilis is known to contain several alkaloids. One of the most interesting is kokusaginine, which may compete with DMT for monoamine oxidase in the stomach, allowing the DMT to pass into the bloodstream. IT seems reasonable to assume that this is on the constituents of Jungle Spice.

In addition, there are kukulkan-A and kukulkan-B, two novel alkaloids which have been reportedly extracted from mimosa hostilis (though Jonathan Ott says that it was in fact Mexican tepescohuite "misreported" as mimosa hostilis.

Entropymancer, a member of the DMT-Nexus, has done a heroic job of compiling different reports on Jungle Spice. Check out his article for more info.

Lacking a proper mass spectrometry reading, we can't be sure what exactly Jungle Spice is. However, we can be sure it will continure to interest members of the psychedelic community, largely because of its unknown character.