I added a couple pinches of citric acid to my 350ml of cactus tea. I phed and the ph is 4 or below. It is acidic.
I poured the 350 ml of cactus tea strained into a 1000ml separatory funnel.
I poured in 50 ml of Xylen and turned the funnel about 50 times. making sure to mix the xylene through the cactus tea.
I waited for the layers to seperate. Three layers formed. A top Xylene layer, a middle fat layer, and a bottom aceqeuos layer. I saved the bottom layer, and put the other two layers in a glass jar off to the side for disposal.
I poured the aceqeous layer back into the seperatory funnel. I then slowly added 100ml solution of sodium hydroxide. (ap. 30 grams of lye beads to 100 ml distilled water) I mixed the sodiumhydroxide sol and the acequous solution. I ph and the ph was 10 or above..... (my ph test is just a bottle of liquid that reacts with color to acid or base)
Now, I added 50 ml of Xylene to the seperatory funnel to mix with the tea( that is now mixed with sodium hydroxide solution and is basic) I mix the xylene and sodium hydro solution and waited for the emulsion layer to serperate. (took several minuts) Once the layers separated, I collected the sodium hydro solution and kept the Xylene(now containing the mescaline) in the seperatory funnel.
Now, I mix the dry ISO wit 19ml ISO to 1 ml of Muriatic Acid(HCl) .... Two layers form. I collect the bottom layer and leave the top layer (Xylene) in the seperatory funnel. -------when I do this a second time , adding HCl solution there is no seperation of the xylene and the solution.
With the bottom layer of HCl solution I let evaporate in a pyrex pan....it appears to be cloudy with what looks like tiny salt particles....then when it drys it looks like a white thin thin thin layer of pasty/salty stuff....When i scrape it, it changes color to a Qwiso resin looking shit that balls up just like qwiso.