Dextromethorphan extractions
By Dr. George.
So, you've got some syrup (or sucrets) and you want to trip, but you can't
stomach one more bottle of that awful cherry glycerine goo? No problem!
Extraction #1: Sucrets extraction (very easy, very safe, but a lot of lost DXM)
Put the Sucrets in a pot of water. Heat and stir until they're dissolved.
Pour this through coffee filters. Dry the coffee filters (say, in an oven with
an open door so you can keep your eye on them.) Get the powder off the filters,
and eat it/capsulize it.
Extraction #2: Agent Lemon extraction (pretty easy, time consuming,
requires that instructions are followed well to be safe, very little lost DXM)
Equipment/Ingredients:
a small pot for boiling
1 part clean, clear, pure unscented ammonia (in cleaning aisle of grocery store)
1 part dxm-only cough syrup ("1 part" means equal amounts syrup and ammonia)
Zippo brand lighter fluid (wherever Zippos are sold)
(make sure it's Zippo! other brands don't always evaporate cleanly)
5 tablespoons of lemon juice in 3/4 - 1 cup of water
(If you want a much-clearer-than-normal final product, try using lemon
juice that you just squeezed out of a lemon.)
a 2-litre bottle (the big pop bottles)
a small glass Snapple-type bottle
two plastic ziploc-type baggies (as large as possible)
fingernail clippers
Phase 1:
Pour cough syrup into pop bottle.
Add an equal amount of ammonia.
Put lid on, shake quickly to mix.
Put 1/2 inch layer of lighter fluid on top of this mixture.
Shake WELL for 5 minutes.
Pour into baggie.
Let sit until a completely clear, bubble-free layer has appeared above the
syrup-coloured watery layer.
Clip a tiny bit off the corner of the baggie and pour the watery layer
into the sink. (RUN THE TAP WATER AT THE SAME TIME. Ammonia stinks and
stings your eyes. I've lost DXM because my eyes were too watery to
see. Cover your face with a towel and stay as low as possible.)
Let all the watery layer drain off, and save the upper layer in the
Snapple bottle.
Phase 2:
Add the lemon juice to the Snapple bottle. Seal tightly, shake even
harder for 5 minutes. Seperate again in the same way, except this time let
sit for three to four times as long, until two distinct layers have
formed, and the bottom is as clear as possible. This time, save the bottom
layer (in the pot) and lose the top. I suggest you lose some of the
bottom, to make sure you don't get anything of the top. Boil this until
you no longer smell lighter fluid (lighter fluid makes your nose feel cold
when you inhale the vapours coming off the boiling product.)
Boil a little longer, just in case.
All done! It tastes like the most awful thing on earth, but it can be
mixed into something (orange juice tends to work okay) and guzzled - don't
sip this crap! You don't want to savour it. :P