Wow that is an intense process. You can also just stop after boiling (skip all the chemistry) and use cheese cloth to strain out the plant matter. Just drink the cactus juice. Its foul but if you drink it with some chasers of your favorite fruit juice beverage its not so bad, and it does the trick just as well with way less prep.
Appreciate breaking it down though, this would be worth it to me if you were making a lot at once.
@solar yes of course,
Psy have slurped the thick green slime and that is extremely effective, however with an even more primitive approach like eating a foot of cactus for breakfast (hopefully de barbbed) Eye'd assume it would be just as effective..
This technique is designed for one(personal) dose.
This crystal can also be smoked or dosed intravenously - Psy have never attempted these although have read about smoked experiences. Nevertheless -- dissolving a salt in water and injecting it is highly effective. The crystal can be packed into capsules too.
It is also an added bonus to understand the taste of Mescaline, opposed to cactus - yuck.
This is certainly a much longer and more meditative process - that is the point. It is more of a hobbyist's activity. The DryTek with Calcium Hydroxide.
To scale up the extraction we would do what you were saying, make tea and filter out the solids. This we would reduce to our liking - for example.. Lets say we put 50 doses in this glass jug.
We make juice with 50 cuttings, simmer - reduce and get this jug full. We then use Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)to Base
We still need to 'Pull" with Xylene.. The hands-on process is slightly different but the core alchemical fundamentals remain true.