How To Steam Distill Sassafras Essential Oil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2022
- In this video I demonstrate the steam distillation of the essential oil of sassafras by distillation of the root bark of Sassafras albidum. I also show how the hydrosol produced in many essential oil steam distillations can easily be broken by the use of solvents or a centrifuge in order to obtain the maximum yield of oil. Solvent extraction of the hydrosol is also briefly explored. The video ends with a brief clip of the dried cadmium sulfate that I made in the previous video since I didn't show y'all the dried product in that one.
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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.
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We have a lot of sassafras trees here. They will spread by roots. The oil is very nice smelling. Very good video
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Nice one , thanks
I'm enjoying your videos, I read all this stuff before but I'm a visual learner and this helps
Lookingn for this video man thanks you so much
I harvested the bark from an entire tree + root this weekend. My next spagyric project is Sassafras.Good work.
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.
Sassafras grows all over the Ozarks. I have at least 50 trees on my half acre. And that's only on half of my half acre. You cut them down and they throw up numerous suckers. That's actually how I propagate them when I dig my fresh roots. Live is better, but I don't kill the original tree. I just don't dig all of the root. I break it off and leave part of it in the ground. I ALWAYS get a new ring of suckers. Never fails.
My only interest in sassafras is making tea. I had it when I was a kid and I'm drinking a cup at this very moment. It's unbelievably delicious. I dug up an old root on our property and it surprisingly goes a long way. Just a couple oz. or root will make a gallon of sassafras tea. Mmmmmmm good
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.
There’s a ridiculous amount around where I am. Every 30 ft there’s at least 2 or 3 saplings and a large one. I just got some cuttings to plant and extract oil from
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Bro I subscribed and I love ur video it was perfect and I am just a beginner and everything was explained great thank you I appreciate it keep on pushing brother
Thanks!! Glad you liked it. 🙂
Cool, I remember my first lab set, lol, but I been thinking bout this 4 like 25 years, but never did, but they do grow here, and I don't know how to complete the task, lol!.
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Are the oil bubbles traped emulsions
Cook some love using that oil. Feels great to have your own cooked Mandy.
To help with the oil clinging to the glass, using vibration works great. I used a little finger vibrator (yes the sex toy) or trojan makes a silicon with a vibrator that you can attach to your step funnel. Believe it or not it works really well
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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!
I got thousands of sassafrass trees near me 😊 my gavorite tree dident know they were sought after
since the essential oil is soluble in ethanol (insoluble in water), you might want to try using 50/50 ethanol/water (vodka) as your working fluid.
Sassafras trees also have 3 different type of leaf patterns..the only tree I know of that has this property..look for the
T_Rex footprint leaf
Mitten leaf
And Indian feather..
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.
Maybe you could make a bong out of that root?
Sassafras root is really hard to get most countries. But nutmeg oil is easy to get and contains quite large amounts of safrole.
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
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Is the knife made by tops? Rangers edge perhaps!? Nice sassafras oil extraction tutorial does anybody know if the grow in the uk.i know they sell the saplings in garden shops but can't find anywhere where they grow wild here
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
Will the centrifuge method work for oils that are less dense than water also?
Probably.
if you add ethanol to the water it will reduce the overall specific gravity and the meniscus. That may help the globules separate, but I have never tried it. If I do I will let you know. .
The oil is soluble in ethanol so that would be a really really bad idea.
@@PoorMansChemist thanks for the tip. No ethanol.
For the sake of sustainable sourcing:
Those that are looking to retrieve your own safrole for... rootbeer... or
Safrole isn't a rare compound. There are several plants that produce it and some in equally high yield. A juniper native to the Eastern US produces oil containing up to 10% safrole in the needles. There is a VERY common landscaping shrub planted in the Southeastern US that produces oil in its leaves and branches averaging 60-70% safrole (trim hedges as a side gig and get paid to collect material). There is a list of safrole containing plants that can be found with a quick search; however for most of you watching this there are easier, cheaper, less time-consuming and more accessible ways to accomplish your goals than by collecting safrole.
Whats the shrubs scientific name? Or atleast the genus
The reason for the poor yield is the inefficient design of the apparatus. If you use a two-necked flask in the sand bath instead of an Erlenmeyer flask, you can introduce additional steam from a steam flask through the second neck. The more steam, the better the result.
I can't understand your aversion to solvents either. Traces always remain, but it's the quantity that makes the poison.
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.
Thank you. In my neck of the US these things (albidum) are invasive, they’re actually detrimental to the local trees.
So if you think about it… harvesting from an invasive species in the US instead of the typical endangered species in Asia (randaiense) is kinda.. saving the forest?
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
I have reason to believe that repeated freeze-thaw of materials prior to distillation can increase productivity. I may also pull a vacuum.
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.
Sassafras is dense in some parts of S.E. Ohio.
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And ne Ohio 😂
I think it`s funny how the good respirators make people look like frogmen but my one is so tight that when I take it off I look like miss Piggy. I do a lot of paint spray work Mexican style and use essential oils to replace the smell of paint fumes.
You're lucky I can't get those damn things to seal even if I shave my beard off
I guess you have 2 or more oils? Ones with sg of less than 1 float. More than one sink?
It's one oil in water
Can you tell me how do I make the oil powder? and what are the measurements? Could you consume it?
How do I make sassafras oil crystal clear? Has as ?
Centrifuge it.
have you tried to do something with pmk oil
No
Pmk is controlled substance
This is cool but i need a easier way to make tea
Can you please do a video on how to turn this into Molly? BTW Kudos to you on your LGTQIA video.
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
Would a distillation lab kit do the job?
Probably. I used a pretty standard set up here
What would be a better distillation set up for better distilling
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.
Aren't you supposed to conduct the steam through the materials?
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.
Illicium parviflorum up to 90% safrole in the leaves do not use bark or roots or another part of this plant it may contain anethole but the leaves have zero traces of anethole and are composed mostly of safrole beautiful plant thick fat oily leaves thank me later.kids
"You shouldn't be here"
"Neither should you"
Huh? Timestamp?
Why does this feel so wrong when done outside?
I dont know. What naughtiness are you getting up to that you think it feels wrong?
you have to distill your distillate in a vacuum your milky white distill needs to be distilled one more time get rid of most your water with calcium chloride
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.
You could probably break the surface tension with a touch of detergent and make the oil sink. It could even be the end of a toothpick dipped in dish detergent then dipped in the hydrosol.
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. 😂
It's bring high effects?
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.
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Opps, Should
@@garywheeler6903 They should learn column chromatography. 😁
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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.
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Making drugs is a terrible idea i agree.
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Not all of the oil in your distillate is safrole. There are various other soluble and insoluble products including terrines, other alkaloids, terpenoids ect.
Before doing any solvent extraction, you would benefit from a light shake not centrifuge, as centrifuge will collect all of the other stuff as well as the safrole.
Salting the water can work well, however to do this you need to evaporate a lot of the water first
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.
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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.
Can i get the high off the safrole or is there another step i need to make it into mda
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safrole is a carcinogen
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?
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Damn man I wish you wouldn't have deleted or whatever you did to your mitragyna speciosa videos. But I understand you look down on home extractors and I'm almost positive you got a bunch of dummy's from Reddit who discovered you and came asking really stupid and annoying druggy type questions. Well dude if mitragyna speciosa is so bad why are all your other drug synthesizing and extracting videos still available?
What's the problem you have with mitragyna speciosa? Correct me if I'm wrong with any of my assumptions
I didn't delete those youtube age restricted them.
$50 ain't bad yeesh probably spend more looking for the damn root also why add more potential harmful ingredients I guess some just don't care