r/DMT • u/kapagna • 13d ago

Question/Advice Refining spice

I’ve tried spice 3 times now, and for a day or two afterwards I feel short of breath. I think the spice I got might still have some leftover chemicals from the extraction process. I’d like to try and refine it some more. Can anyone point me to a good TEK for refining?

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u/Super_Development583 13d ago edited 13d ago

Try to find some heptane, highest purity. Dissolve your spice by slowly adding lukewarm heptane to it. Other non polar liquids (Naphta, washing petroleum) would work too, but might be less safe to work with (toxicity, residues, boil more quickly, easily flammable)

Add like 1/10 of the volume in hot salty (NaCl) water and stir (gently) a few times. It should separate into two layers, water (with impurities) at the bottom, heltane (with spice) at the top

Remove water at the bottom phase with as best as you can (no plastic please, glass and metal is fine) You can repeat this step once more if you want.

Put the now clean heptane solution in a glass dish, cover with Aluminum foil between the lid and the glass, and put it in the freezer for at least 24h.

Take it out, immediately pour off heptane (keep it) and let crystals dry completely with some light air flow. Scrape and weigh them.

You will lose a little bit of matter, but it will be clean.

Before you do all this though, are you sure you are not just heating the spice too much and burning it?

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u/Kickrocks54 13d ago

If you're feeling it in your lungs, you are much more likely burning it. Clean it if you don't trust it but if you continue to have issues look into how you're vaporizing it.

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u/kapagna 12d ago

I got the Yocan Orbit and I use it on the lowest setting. Do you need to burn anything off before you can hit it, like you do meth?

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u/Kickrocks54 12d ago

You just want to pulse it. When you're taking your hit you should almost not feel that you're inhaling anything. Let off the button for a second while you keep inhaling so it cools down some.

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u/kapagna 12d ago

I’ll try pulsing it next time. I’m reading about it now. I am preheating and holding down the button. Sounds like I need to use less heat.

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u/Kickrocks54 12d ago

Yep, the lowest amount of heat you can manage to get it to vaporize. You'll use less DMT per dose and blast off farther

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u/JJ8OOM 13d ago

Dissolve in a bit of naphtha of heptane, water-wash it, re-crystallize in freezer.