Is there a way to make a less harsh smoking enhanced Salvia Divinorum leaf?
Yes, you can remove as much Chlorophyll as you can from the leaf and then boil the leaf in hot water to remove most of the tannin which makes Salvia Divinorum leaf a very harsh smoke, heres how: The first thing I do is hand select each leaf for quality, setting aside the stiff dark to black colored leaf in favor of the lighter colored soft green leaves. Once I have my pile of leaf to be made into incense I carefully hand de-vein the stem running through the center of the leaf being careful to leave each leaf in as large a piece as possible. When I have a full bowl of de-stemmed and de-veined broken leaf I then extract the leaf with room temperature solvent several times to remove as much of the Chlorophyll as I can. Of course, I save the extract to be processed later, but because of the extra work required selecting the best leaf and de-veining them this process isn’t meant to obtain Salvinorin, but rather to condition the leaf to ready it for enhancement. After your done extracting yo
Yes, although this might actually make the leaf too easy to smoke. I have found that Salvia divinorum leaf is much easier to smoke when most of the Chlorophyll and tannin has been removed from it. Here is how I make my own high quality standardized Salvia divinorum leaf: The first thing I do is hand select each leaf for quality, setting aside the stiff dark to almost black colored leaf in favor of the lighter colored soft green leaves. Once I have my pile of leaf to be made into incense I carefully hand de-vein the stem running through the center of each leaf being careful to keep the leaf in as few pieces as possible. When I have a full bowl of de-stemmed and de-veined broken leaf I then extract the leaf with a room temperature solvent such as Acetone or 99% Isopropanol several times to remove as much of the Chlorophyll from the leaf as I can. Of course, I save the extract to be processed later, but because of the extra work required selecting the best leaf and de-veining them this pr
