Extraction - Freezing San Pedro Instead of Boiling

[Dubsage]

I came across a source which said that freezing sections of San Pedro for several hours, then grinding into a pulp and straining the juice, yielded a more effective dose than blending, boiling and straining. The source said that freezing succeeds in breaking down epidermal cells like boiling does, but it doesn't reduce the effectiveness of alkaloids like high temperatures might.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

[alhilali]

swim was also wondering this very same thing

[Wolfman Knows]

Originally Posted by Dubsage

I came across a source which said that freezing sections of San Pedro for several hours, then grinding into a pulp and straining the juice, yielded a more effective dose than blending, boiling and straining. The source said that freezing succeeds in breaking down epidermal cells like boiling does, but it doesn't reduce the effectiveness of alkaloids like high temperatures might.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Swim, cut swims san pedro into little pieces then froze them, defrosted and then froze again, then defrosted, swim wound up with a good amount of goopy green liquid, but he was following erowids method of boiling so swim pourd the goop into the pot with the rest of the ground up pedro, Swim wonders if Swim should have kept the goop aside.......

[comrade_christophe]

swim found that freezing, thawing, freezing thawing then blending and reducing. do not boil!!! just whisps of steam coming off the liquid.
this process works very well. but in the end your magic liquid will only be as strong as your cacti is, so its up to the cacti to make its own magic