I still don't understand, how exactly do I evaporate the alcohol from it?
"after one week, strain, pour into a baking pan, allow the alcohol to evaporate, bottle for use."
wouldn't cooking it in a pan give me that goo, like in the resin recipe?
"Allow the stuff to evaporate, and you will be left with a nice disgusting goo. Scrape that stuff into capsules and voila."

The only difference between the 'Resin' and 'Extract' recipe is that he uses a higher percentage of alcohol, isn't it?
I've never made any kind of extract before, it's all new to me.

this guy says:
"I strained it and then let it evaporate in a wide open container until the amount was cut in half"
but there was still alcohol in the mixture since he said "I was instantly buzzed from the everclear ofcourse"

so the only way to get the alcohol out, would be to cook it, right? and then whatever goo-ey stuff is left, should have no alcohol, and alot of potential?
i might just strain out the leaves and drink it like that, i think drinking it with the alcohol will be better then trying to consume goo.

I can't find much about the chemical composition of Calea Z, but I found this:
"Chemical compounds isolated from this species include flavones such as acacetin and sesquiterpene lactones such as germacranolides. The sesquiterpenes known as caleicines and caleochromenes may be active in its effects on sleep."
and somewhere I read that you want to preserve the alkaloids in calea z while drying the leaves.
Are any of those the constituent of the herb? and do you know if they are best water, or alcohol soluble?

I didn't know about decoction, it sounds interesting though, like you really squeeze the leaves for everything its got, i might try it.


Rodrodrod, thanks for the warnings, I've tried calea z before a couple of times, as a tea, and smoking it, seperate and at the same time, always with very mild results.
I'd drink more tea, but the taste is just too awful to drink more than 1 cup, thats why I'd like to try the extract. Get alot of it in quickly. I will ofcourse start with a little to try it out.
I know its not neccesary for lucid dreaming, all of my LDs so far were without any external agent, but calea z gives me very strange dreams and i like experimenting with it.

Thanks for the replies btw guys