How To Steam Distill Sassafras Essential Oil  

The oil is actually more dense than the water

@@tylerrivera2126 And yet big blobs of it will float. You can see them in the video.

@@tylerrivera2126 And in the video thumbnail.

are you going to finish the synth and make mdma?

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Thanks!!! Glad you are enjoying them!🥰

A little bit goes a long ways. 🙂

It can cause cancer no?

@@triple_gem_shiningthis is the whole “we don’t want you to have so make up some semi true story to scare you away from it” I doubt it’s as bad as it’s made to look

@@triple_gem_shiningin unrealistic, copious amounts, a medical user or even recreational would have to practically only drink the tea. Just like cigarettes, millions of people smoke but many quit after some years with the ability to heal. Others do not and end up increasing the intake of nicotine and chemicals until they are basically forced to quit. It can 100% cause cancer if you want to look at it from a logistical standpoint but your chances only rise with nonstop use. This is root is known to be used for illicit chemicals that could make you feel good, this is the result of the war on drugs..

​@@triple_gem_shiningnot more than your daily consumption of almost anything. When used in responsible quantities, it shouldn't be problematic. Unless you have some type of allergic reaction.

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Thanks!! Glad you liked it. 🙂

Don't kill trees just to do this.

@triple_gem_shining the tree I harvested had been crushed by a pine, but thank you for your sensitivity towards these wonderful specimens, and I do mean that. However, I can't permit anyone to impose their version of what is right or wrong to what I call responsible stewardship and curious exploration, in addition to it being my work, my time, and in legal terms my property.

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Indeed

Mulberry Bushes also have Multiple Leaf Types on a Single Bush.

​@@arctictimberwolf mulberry leaves are pointed. Sassafrass not so much.

@@lrmackmcbride7498 , are they pointy? I can't remember, I thought they were sortof Lobey leaves on Mulberry. I grew Several Black Mulberry Bushes and One of the Black Mulberries I grew was an Albino Black Mulberry Bush at my last house and made Mulberry Wine from the Fruit. Mulberry is one of My Favorite Berries, yummy.

@@arctictimberwolf yeah mulberry are 'toothed' aka pointy from a reference: Red mulberry is also one of the few trees with leaves that can be mitten-shaped with a single lobe "thumb" on one side. The other tree that commonly has leaves like this is sassafras, but sassafras leaves differ from mulberry by having untoothed margins.

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Hey whatever works for you my dude. 😉

@@PoorMansChemist I had the same reaction years ago when I first heard about it.

He got this from a Hamilton Pharmacopeia Vice episode where they make MDMA using a dildonic device lol

​@@wildeninja2836I seen that one!

It's native to eastern North America and east Asia so probably won't find it wild unless it escaped from someone's garden. It should have no trouble surviving in the UK though so far as I can tell. So you can grow it yourself. The trees are harvestable when they are fairly good sized saplings. Maybe a decade or so of growth would be good. So you'd have to do it for the long term. But that gives you time to get all the stuff and learn the skills needed to do something with the sassafras oil

No it does not it contains myristicin which is similar to safrole. It actually has very tiny amounts of safrole

@@JoeyVX when I say large amounts I mean up to 10% in a seed extract or around 3 to 4% in standard oil which is quite large amounts for legal oils. And im talking about safrole not myristican which is also quite a fun substance when activated with the right enzyme inhibitors. Are you familiar with oilouasca and other essential oil based trips? Ive had some incredible experiences with elemi oil, sweet basil and nutmeg combos along with the inhibitors like German chamomile oil and star anise oil.

Watch out for anise seed oil passed off as sasafrass oil. It makes a very nasty chemical if processed as safrole, works nice for flavoring though 🤔

@@christopherleubner6633 good to know. Never found any sasafrass oil. Star anise oil is interesting as a enzyme inhibitor prior to nutmeg oil.

Sassafras oil contains 80% safrole, nutmeg oil contains about 4%… not really worth the effort

Probably.

I don't understand why you think using solvents is somehow better. Why introduce a solvent to the mix when it's not necessary because isolation of the oil can be done much more efficiently using mechanical means? And remember who the audience is. Half the people who watch this video are idiot kids who have no clue what the hell they are doing. Generating steam to introduce to a thickened plant mix in water is a great way for some newbie to have a steam explosion when the inlet gets clogged with plant crap and the top finally pops off that pressurized boiling flask. It's much safer for people to start out using the arrangement I showed in the video.

These trees are not invasive

​@@willammings7317 yes they are they were just.all harvested as it was our.largest export once. But it is invasive saplings spread all over

I'm going to use my washing machine or a weed wacker or a lawn mower for a centrifuge

Whats the shrubs scientific name? Or atleast the genus

The oil is soluble in ethanol so that would be a really really bad idea.

@@PoorMansChemist thanks for the tip. No ethanol.

I should say I this has been my experience when hydrodistillation of tough wood materials and bark is the goal. No need on herbs. Are you interested in practical spagyric alchemy? I can supply some resources if you're interested. If not that's OK too.

Freezing the plant matter using liquid nitrogen and then grinding the plant matter to powder followed by extraction would be even better.

@@thecriticalpoint I am very familiar with spagyrics and laboratory alchemy. They are fascinating subjects. I've made up a few simple spagyric medicines using the process described in Robert Allen Bartletts book Real Alchemy. I've also made the primum ens melissa. Metal alchemy is even more fascinating since so few people do it. But I work with highly toxic metals all the time. They are all old friends. However I only have bulk amounts of a couple of pulverized raw ores. You have to start from ores if you want to repeat alchemical work done in centuries past. Sometimes to get the products you describe you need trace impurities.

​@PMC Returns Outstanding. It sounds like we have similar lab experience. I read, meditate then fail forward and learn from everything that doesn't kill me. Bartlett is one of the only Modern practitioners that doesn't mince words, deflect, or obviscate . He has some paid videos on Vimeo (Tertia Series, wet way series) that are worth their weight in volitilized salts. There are a few more people but no need to name drop here. I recently produced Kerkring Menstrum and The Secret Fire, then a self directed side quest to make a sharp salty vinegar. They are all extremely potent corrosive agents and represented months of effort as you undoubtedly know. On the Sassy, I'm going to play with using the hydrosol to leech the salts after centrifuge removal of volitile. I'll look at freeze temps to see if freeze separation is possible. Fractional distillation is a possibility too. It's good to see you active, and doing the work. I can't stand armchair philosophers. You got yourself a subscribe.

@@thecriticalpoint Thanks! It's rare to find anyone else who knows anything about it. My primary interest in the occult sciences has always been magic but I discovered that laboratory alchemy was a thing about 15 years ago. Up until the last few years I've not been able to do much with it. I took a break from all things spiritual for several years starting back in about 2016ish and lasting until about summer last year. Don't know why but I felt like it was vitally necessary that I step back from everything and put all my energy into chemistry but chemistry on my own terms. Trust me doing it as a job is really quite dull. But on your own you can do so many interesting things. So I focused on that all the while knowing in the back of my mind that it was necessary. When this spiritual hiatus ended last summer things had dramatically changed. It was like some kind of spiritual gestation period had ended. I think having no involvement with anything even remotely related to the occult was necessary so that whatever was happening in the background could happen without any kind of outside interference. And things really have changed. Things are much clearer and I'm able to do things now I couldn't do before. It's been rather exciting actually. Can't wait to see where it ends up going.

Why thank you!🥰

Thank you. And no.

You can find the formula from a google search, im pretty sure its on wikipedia on either the mda or safrole page

It does require hbr though, fair warning on that

How do I make sassafras oil crystal clear? Has as ?

Centrifuge it.

It's one oil in water

You're lucky I can't get those damn things to seal even if I shave my beard off

Probably. I used a pretty standard set up here

No

Pmk is controlled substance

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I got plenty of oil and I didn't pass steam through it so clearly you don't need to pass steam through it in order to do a steam distillation. The way I showed as much safer. There's no possibility of steam generator outlets becoming occluded with plant gunk.

Huh? Timestamp?

I'd run it into a regular receiver. Just plan on centrifuging all the distillate. It's by far the most efficient way to break the emulsion.

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I dont know. What naughtiness are you getting up to that you think it feels wrong?

Or you can just centrifuge it as I showed. Thats the easiest and most efficient way to deal with hydrosols.

The milky white is a hydrosol (water/oil colloid) and will settle out on its own.

Thats an interesting trick. Never heard of that one before. I suppose its worth a shot although centrifuging solves the hydrosol problem completely without having to add anything to the mix.

Or with a vibrating dilding apparatus

I prefer the vibranting dilding apparatus. Its actually the ol lady's favorite when Im not breaking emolsions. 😂

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No. Infact it's cancerous. Only a licensed chemist should perform any method beyond distillation

Oh for fucks sake. Sassafras oil is not wildly carcinogenic Its perfectly fine to consume in small amounts. What do you think traditional root beer is made with? And what the hell is a "licensed chemist"? You don't need any kind of license to do chemistry unless of course you live in some backwards, barbaric country. This is the United States where we don't have to deal with such ridiculous nonsense.

No it is not psychotropic. But it.smells nice.

@@PoorMansChemist You know where I can get full tutorial for mdma synthesis?

@@Africankingdoms 🙄 Have you tried going a Google search?

Opps, Should

@@garywheeler6903 They should learn column chromatography. 😁

I don't fancy the idea of getting caught making CI drugs and spending 20 years grabbing the soap for Sweaty Freddy. Just doesn't appeal to me and since they only need to catch you once whereas you have to get away with it every time it's best to just not fuck with that kind of thing. If you're rich and powerful you're above the law but for us peasants they will crucify us in the parking lot of the courthouse. Metaphorically but the point still stands. If you get caught your life is over. No drug is worth that.

@@PoorMansChemist I only trip on ormus Making drugs is a terrible idea i agree. Freddy 💀

I said that in the video. You would have to use column chromatography to separate it out. I didn't do a solvent extraction because it would have been pointless. You can't purify it by doing solvent extractions. It's chromatography or nothing.

@@PoorMansChemist solvent extractions are very very effective and are even food safe if done correctly. Of coarse the best way to do it would be using a rotovap but that’s a lot of money and maybe a visit from nervous law enforcement with many questions about what your doing :/ so I totally understand your chromo or bust mentality haha. I would just avoid it for times sake because In the words of some famous Greek alchemist “ain’t nobody got time for that”.

@@michaelhicks8603 Sweet Brown was a greek alchemist? Who knew? 😆 Look man you aren't going to easily be able to separate pure safrole from sassafras oil using anything other than column chromatography probably followed by fractional distillation under reduced pressure to remove the mobile phase. That would give you >99% safrole which would be suitable for pharmaceutical production. But hey I don't know everything and I live to be proven wrong. Post your solvent extraction method and I will examine it to see if it holds water or not. Otherwise you're just kind of pissing into the wind my friend. Talk is cheap and talk on the internet is orders of magnitude cheaper still. It's very easy to type words and hit post. I get it from people all the time. Then again I do have someone demonstrate that I have been in error every now and again too. So let's see your extraction protocol and find out which one it is.

@@michaelhicks8603 Can you tell me how I make the oil turn crystal? What can I use to make this crystal?

@@jefersonprovasi2089 chuck it in the freezer.

Only in large doses over a long period of time. And it's not even clear that applies to humans. People have been consuming sassafras oil for hundreds of years. Presumably they weren't dying all over the place from cancer

@@PoorMansChemist Can you post me some scholarly links to support that?

😂😂 poormanschemist, youre such a dweeb i swear.

I didn't delete those youtube age restricted them.