Dear Mr. Harveyplex;
Welcome to the Forum!
First I must make a disclaimer: Watch out for my truly weird sense of humor! While I sometimes try to be as offensive as possible, I try hard not to offend anyone in particular.
I think that perhaps your monkey and my long-time, trusted assistant, companion and alter ego, Igor, may have a few things to talk about.
Igor and I have a fair amount of experience doing extractions, and I am working on one for Eboka. The problem there is that I do not yet have any to use for experimentation. However, I have the general principles committed to memory from practice with other plants. The one problem with using water for a solvent is that it tends to form gunk that is pretty much impossible to get filtered. The technique I am contemplating uses ethanol (EtOH) or isopropanol (IPOH) to do the initial extraction and filtering. Alcohols flow through filters easily and their lower density (than water) make the source material sink to the bottom faster and more completely. Decant, sinner, decant! After reading a number of extractions on the web, the ibogaine in the root bark is definitely soluble in alcohols, it is probably in freebase form.
After the root bark has been extracted and filtered, it can be turned into an 'acid salt' with vinegar and evaporated to dryness, or it can be used in the natural freebase state.
If you let me know what your previous experience with extraction/chemistry is, what equipment (if any) is on-hand and how much time/expense is available, I will be glad to give more details appropriate to your monkey's situation. No doubt, having someone interested in the subject will encourage me to continue with my write-up.
I do have 32 grams of voacanga root bark I have been contemplating extracting that would provide me with some experience similar to Eboka. I have been slowly, gently working at getting a neuropharmacologist friend to help me with the conversion of voacangine to ibogaine.
Re: valium. It is my thought that, especially in cases such as yours and mine, where detox and alleviation of withdrawal is not an issue, the insights gained through the visions are important to get to the cause of addiction and depression to be able to fix the problem at its root. Does your monkey have experience with 'visual' psychedelics such as LSD, DMT, mushrooms or peyote/mescaline? The effects of those are quite different from MDA or X.
You might find my recent posts on the use of chrysin in this forum interesting. It seems to decrease the visionary and anxiety effects of 'mimohuasca' while still keeping the mind clear. I guess knowing why you are contemplating the use of valium would enable better responses from both myself and other forum members.
Re: Dramamine. I have used just a couple of datura seeds to allay nausea when doing peyote with total success. Dramamine gives me temporary 'restless leg syndrome' making it very difficult to sit still. You might want to try a dose of Dramamine before combining it with Eboka to be sure you don't get the same side effect.
I would like to see a Forum Topic dedicated to educating sitters. Since I have not yet had Eboka and might have to enlist an 'amateur' sitter myself, due to financial reasons, it is a subject of considerable interest to me, too.
BTW, don't freak out when Tia asks if you are prepared to die after you're done puking copiously all over the floor -- she does that to everyone (Hi Tia, love ya!).
Guess that's plenty for now.
Again, welcome to our humble Forum!
Your New Friend & Co-conspirator,
ET McKnight
